Stress fractures can be a serious injury, often affecting endurance athletes. Many of them can become emergencies very quickly, even though the symptoms don’t have to be severe.

The big thing is assessment, likely imaging, and liaising with our sports medicine colleagues to ensure 

1. Safety 
2. Management 
3. Rehab.

If in doubt get it assessed, as the consequences of missing them can be severe.

We often see these misdiagnosed and mismanaged, so like anything, make sure the health professional you ask for help is used to seeing these problems. With the volume of runners in our clinic we, unfortunately, pick these up very often, Good news is we also get great results and get people back to sport even better and more resilient than before.