Fractures

Fractures in the foot. People come in all the time and tell me that they jump from a stair, they jump from the car, or they fell, and they can still wiggle their toes, so they know it’s not fractured, but they’re in pain and the foot is swollen. So, the actual definition of a fracture is when you have disrupted what we call the integrity of the bone. Instead of the bone being straight or smooth, you’ve cracked it and it’s now ragged and not smooth. You only know that from an x-ray. So, we take an x-ray to see if in fact you’ve disrupted the bone in your foot, or one of the bones, or several bones! How you treat it? Most people have when they come to us. They’ve already gone to emergency room or urgent care. They already have a splint. Most of the time you would just do the traditional- rest, ice, compression, & elevation (R.I.C.E.) until you can see a specialist and then we will look at it at that point. Many times, it has to be surgically corrected, but many times you can just wear a cast for several months and it will heal. So, if you had an accident or injury, whether it can be direct impact, sometimes people get fractures just from overuse. We have people, for some reason, women, they have a walking program and they walk all the time and then their feet start swelling and they have pain and they come in and they actually have what we call a stress fracture. Meaning lots of stress on a particular joint or area, (meaning the foot) and it has caused a fracture or disruption in the bone, in the foot. So, we’ll treated at that point. So, if you’re dealing with any type of unusual swelling or if you’ve had an injury or accident to your foot, come and see us here at Trinity Foot Center where we help to keep Texans on their feet!