Comment by clumsysmurf
4 days ago
It was ~20 years ago, so my memory is a little foggy, but I gave myself a "dancer's fracture" in one foot.
After many months, it was looking like a non-union. The podiatrist was worried any pin would split the broken bone even more. It wasn't looking good.
I had read something along these lines even back then, so with my crazy immobilizer boot on, I head to the gym and started doing light squats several times per week.
Next x-ray: healed.
I dropped a few hundred lbs on my foot and got my ballerina's fracture. I like "dancer's" better haha. I went to the gym 4 times a week, every week, even in the boot. Just did mostly sitting exercises. It took 4 or 5 months to start to fuse still. :shrug:
> It took 4 or 5 months to start to fuse
That's an insanely long time-frame for healing.
Bones usually start fusing in weeks, not months.
> It took 4 or 5 months to start to fuse still
Yeah it was almost half a year for me. My doctor even started prescribing "non-standard" treatments like electrical stimulation, etc, which didn't work.
Those little bones are fragile... I broke the second from the outside last summer, too much running, and then started running again a little bit too soon and the next one broke :-/
But plenty of people here are saying to just force it...
What did the doctors say after it healed?
Did they take credit for it?