How can you explain to if you hold a stress fracture?
I recently injured my ankle to the point i was hoping around the house. I am in a minute in conditioning camp for volleyball and doing deeply of jumping and running. How do can you tell if you own a stress fracture or hairline fracture. My mom doesn't have a lot of money to nick me to the dr. please help!!
Answer: Contrary to common belief, an Xray will not commonly diagnose a stress fracture. It can for a hairline fracture, but not other for a stress fracture (normally needs to be there for over 6 weeks for it to show up on Xray).
The best road to diagnose a stress fracture is by a Nuclear Bone Scan (need to get a referral from your GP for this).
In saying that though, a drastically good way to check for a fracture yourself at home is by vibration. If you have a tuning fork or sometimes a well brought-up vibrating mobile phone, place this over the affected nouns. If this reproduces the pain noticeably it can imply you may have a fracture!!
Additionally other signs of a fracture are intense pain, especially on weightbearing and also aching at night which constantly wakes you up from your sleep.
near is only one way to relate if you have a fracture or not-X-Rays! But you should keep your ankle all right supported with tape/ace bandage when playing and elevate and rime when you are through for the day. See if there is a trainer at the volleyball military camp who can take a look at it for you since you can't get to a doctor. Good luck!