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Strange behaviour of a stress fracture – more info

Dear doc,you wrote:>Although you have written a great deal of>information, there is still much more I or any other>doctor would want to know.>What the X ray looks like, your weight, health>activity, are you in a cast brace? I am including a URL of an x-ray of my foot (sorry for the poor quality, that’s the best I could do) as well as a URL to more pictures (x-ray and regular). My weight is 125 pounds, I am 26 years old, my health is fine. I got the stress fracture during a ballroom competition – since then haven’t done much physical activity for 3.5 months. I am not in a walking cast now, the last thing I tried was partial weight-bearing (


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    Vivian Abrams DPM

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    I can’t really tell much about the fracture other than it appears to be on the 2nd metatarsal. If this is a fairly simple stress fracture, then I am at a loss to explain why a young healthy active man with apparent good bone density is still having problems after this length of time. At this point, I would want a MRI to see if there is anything we are missing.

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