107 - Managing Running Related Bone Stress and Stress Fractures

Today we dive into one of the BIGGEST and most complex running injuries of all... BONE STRESS.

It's a HUGE topic and today covers all the basics when it comes to pathophysiology, diagnosis, risk factors and early management. This is far from a rehab guide as bone stress is complex and frequently requires a multidisciplinary management approach. What you will learnt however is;

- what causes bone stress and what it actually is from a pathophysiology perspective

- who gets them and why

- both biomechanical and biological risk factors

- training error you should look out for

- gold standard diagnosis, who to seek help from and why other input may be requirred

- grading stress, injury site and bone type

- early management, prognosis, de-loading and time frames to return to running

In the next bone stress episode we will delve deeper into management and bone loading principals.

Some references for your further reading;

https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2014.5334

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7049623/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33635519/

https://runningmatekc.com/

Thank you for all the ongoing support friends, it means so much! TSSP x