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• #METATARSAL FRACTURE CRACK#

A medical boot (called a CAM boot) or a hard-soled shoe limits stress across the injured bone while it heals. Zone 1 injuries typically heal without issues, so the foot just needs to be protected while it heals. So areas of this bone with good blood supply will heal great and areas with poor blood supply require a lot of attention. Remember that good healing requires good blood supply, and this little foot bone can be really temperamental. Treating a Jones Fracture (5th Metatarsal Fracture): Treatment depends on where the break occurs. A final twist of the foot that causes a break through this area of stress is like the straw that broke the camels back (its usually a very minimal injury that produces an injury that would never occur in healthier bone). The abnormal thickened bone is our body's attempt to build up extra bone to withstand this stress. A stress fracture means the bone has been breaking slowly over many weeks due to the accumulation of too much stress.

Also the x-rays can show if the injury is new - there is a clean break or if the injury is the result of a chronic stress fracture - there is a break surrounded by abnormally thickened bone. The x-rays will not only show the broken bone, but will show where the break occurs (which is important for deciding the best treatment, see below). Doctors are suspicious for a break and will order x-rays to diagnose this injury. The foot is tender to touch along the outside of the mid-foot and often people cannot bear weight on the foot due to pain. Diagnosing a Jones Fracture (5th Metatarsal Fracture): People with this injury typically report twisting their foot while playing sports or tripping on an uneven sidewalk, and they immediately feel pain along the outside of their foot. In Zone 2 (a break at the joint between this bone and the 4th metatarsal) and in Zone 3 (a break in the middle of the bone) there is poor blood supply and problematic healing. In Zone 1, at the tip of the bone, the break occurs in an area of great blood supply. There are "Three Zones of Injury" where a break can occur. The 5th metatarsal has a bad blood supply in certain regions and therefore it has trouble healing. If trees dont get enough water, they will shrivel up and die. Even though our bones look like rocks, they are more like trees that only stay strong when they have healthy roots. If the blood supply to a bone is also injured when the bone breaks, then the bone cannot heal because it cannot get the nutrients it needs.

#METATARSAL FRACTURE CRACK#

Our body can only fill in the crack with new bone when these nutrients are delivered (in the same way that you can only build a house if the supplies are delivered).

So heres the situation: A broken bone heals with nutrients and growth factors delivered to the bone via our bloodstream. Its like saying: The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Jones and other orthopedic doctors? This bone doesnt heal like the other metatarsal bones, its a problem child, and so it often requires special treatment. So what makes the 5th metatarsal bone so special that it gets so much attention from Dr. Its also a very important bone of the foot because its very mobile an so our muscles can make small adjustments to help maintain balance. The 5th metatarsal connects your pinky toe to the rest of your foot, and this is the bone we talk about here. The 'forefoot' has 5 bones (called metatarsals) which connect the toes to the 'midfoot'. Your toes each have 3 small bones (except the big toe which only has 2) and as you go toward your ankle the bones get bigger and bigger. So your foot has a lot of bones, 29 total. To better understand the injury lets quickly review our the anatomy of our foot. Jones) who first wrote about the fracture after sustaining the injury while dancing. It got the name "Jones fracture" for the doctor (Dr. More specifically, the break occurs along the middle and outside portion of the foot. A Jones Fracture, aka a 5th metatarsal fracture, is a type of broken foot.