Stress Fracture of Fibula
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9th Mar '04, 12:16pm
I have had a diagnosed stress fracture of the fibula (just above my ankle) for the last 5 weeks. The diagnosis was made by undergoing an MRI scan 3 weeks ago. I have been unable to walk for any distance without very bad pain, this pain has been aleviated somewhat with various pain killers. What distresses me most of all is that, while I have been wearing an aircast for the past week and resting as much as possible the pain and soreness while I even walk around the house has not decreased in anyway. The pain and soreness seems to now radiate around to the back of my lower leg and calf. I did try to pool run but that seemed to make it even more painful, cycling is also a no go. I have been swimming with a pull buoy and not using my legs at all and kicking off the wall with the good leg, which seems to work OK. I am so fed up with the pain and no sign of any improvement I wonder if anyone out there has any suggestions you could make which would help improve the situation. I am not sure if the continued pain is to be expected or if one has to just stay off the injured leg altogether for bone to rebuild? :?: Would a sports massage of the calf given my my Physical Therapist do you think help or make the injury even worse?
Thanks for taking the time to read my email and I look forward to hearing from you.
Re: Stress Fracture of Fibula
10th Mar '04, 9:04am
Hi Muriel,
I have dealt with many people with stress fractures in the past. The most important thing is to look at the event which resulted in the fracture. If this event keeps happening now while in a cast then the fracture will not heal. I often see it with athletes who fracture the metatarsal shaft due to over pronataion of the foot.
The second thing is to look at the bone strength and pliability to ascertain if it is a result of a weakness within the bone. It is usually a combination of both that sets it off. This can be countered by a high dose magnesium supplement with calcium. Do not ingest this with tap water though as the flouride will prevent absorption.
Hope that helps.
helpping
24th Sep '08, 10:22am
my advice to is to be patient because fractures takes time to heal, and dont perform any movement that causes pain , u need to completly rest the fracture site and dont stop trainning at all but do cross trainning and u have to knew the cause of this fracture, there is a strange thing in ur story that u have pain during walking and piking and this doesn't occur in fibular stress fracture because it is a non weight bearing bone the pain and the fracture actually caused by muscle pulling on the fibula during the toe off phase of the running cycle so pain appearing mainly during runnig try to investigate more accurate to see if u have an associated tibial fracture , i advice u to do a bone scane
stress fracture of fibula
10th Oct '08, 2:55pm
I am interested to read your comments as I too have been diagnosed with a stress fracture of the fibula just above the ankle. It took 5 months to diagnose and the cause is still not clear (most likely running and then made worse by going on an expedition walking for 100km but wasn't aware there was a problem initially) and I am now in a walking boot, which is seeming to make no difference at all. I still get pain after a small amount of walking and as I tried every which way to exercise over the past 5 months as I couldn't run, I have not attempted to do any exercise while in the boot (as everything aggrevated it).
Any advice appreciated and also any ideas on how long it should take for the pain to stop as the helpful advice i have been given is to wear the walking boot for as long as it hurts, but after nearly 3 weeks of wearing the boot it hasn't changed at all.