Comments on: Femoral Stress Fracture http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/03/femoral-stress-fracture/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:11:16 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Podzol http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/03/femoral-stress-fracture/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Podzol Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:43:27 +0000 http://www.srcpt.com/blog/2009/03/femoral-stress-fracture/#comment-34 I had a stress fracture in my tibial plateau, caused by the reasons that you state above, even though I was wearing nicely supportive running shoes that were fitted by a therapist who analyzed my gait. I took two months off running to heal the bone and am back up to my previous milage using Vibram five fingers... the minimalist shoes you mention above. I run in the Vibram KSOs, they have a more shoe-like cover on the top to keep gravel and sand out. I have no joint pain and no indications of continuing problems at the break site. My lessons: 1. don't pick up mileage too fast 2. don't wear over-kill shoes if there's nothing to fix about your natural stride 3. Don't take a lot of NSAIDS (I was taking some ahead of each run to stave off muscle and joint pain. Now I read that NSAIDS can inhibit maintenance bone repair) I had a stress fracture in my tibial plateau, caused by the reasons that you state above, even though I was wearing nicely supportive running shoes that were fitted by a therapist who analyzed my gait. I took two months off running to heal the bone and am back up to my previous milage using Vibram five fingers… the minimalist shoes you mention above. I run in the Vibram KSOs, they have a more shoe-like cover on the top to keep gravel and sand out. I have no joint pain and no indications of continuing problems at the break site.

My lessons:
1. don’t pick up mileage too fast
2. don’t wear over-kill shoes if there’s nothing to fix about your natural stride
3. Don’t take a lot of NSAIDS (I was taking some ahead of each run to stave off muscle and joint pain. Now I read that NSAIDS can inhibit maintenance bone repair)

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