I planned to swim at Nationals this year in Fort Lauderdale but was just diagnosed with a metatarsal stress fracture in my right foot... I still want to swim and try not to put much pressure on my right foot. Does anyone have experience competing with this type of injury? Also, this is typically a runner's injury and I have not run at all since last summer. Can this be caused from just pushing off the wall repeatedly?
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there are different types of stress fracutres. If you have a type one or two stress fracture you can continue with your swimming as usual and you will feel only little discomfort when pushing off the walls. If you have any other type of stress fracture then you shouldn't do any swimming at all cause it could slow down the healing process, but your doctor would have tell you.
also primary a runner's injury you can have a stress fracture also when while doing other things when these put a unsual stress on your foot / ankle / calf.
you could have suffered your stress fracture while pushing off when you just push with a part of your foot (e.g. just with the part right under your toes -sorry, can't find the word). but it's rather unlikely as you should have performed a LOT of incorrect push offs until it will result in a stress injury.
there are different types of stress fracutres. If you have a type one or two stress fracture you can continue with your swimming as usual and you will feel only little discomfort when pushing off the walls. If you have any other type of stress fracture then you shouldn't do any swimming at all cause it could slow down the healing process, but your doctor would have tell you.
also primary a runner's injury you can have a stress fracture also when while doing other things when these put a unsual stress on your foot / ankle / calf.
you could have suffered your stress fracture while pushing off when you just push with a part of your foot (e.g. just with the part right under your toes -sorry, can't find the word). but it's rather unlikely as you should have performed a LOT of incorrect push offs until it will result in a stress injury.
