This weekend I was lecturing at the International Foot & Ankle Foundation meeting in lake Tahoe, and I was lecturing on running injuries.

At the beginning of that lecture, I was asking the group of doctors there and I said, "Well, if you had a runner with a fourth metatarsal stress fracture and they had this level of pain and this level of disability and this level of complaint about it, how long would you expect to have them in a fracture walking boot?"

There was a doctor from Flagstaff, Arizona who actually raised his hand and he said, "It depends."

I was shocked because normally, people say four weeks or six weeks.

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about how I finally got the correct answer on how long before you can run after injury.