If you are a runner, it is critical that you do not lose your running fitness while waiting for a stress fracture to heal. Because that puts you at risk of getting another stress fracture once you have recovered and start running again. 

I am always trying to think about a way that I can simplify the explanations of what I do with runners when they call me because they are not getting better after a period of being in a fracture walking boot for way too long. 

There are really six steps that I follow. 

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we're talking about my six-step stress fracture framework.