There are "Three Zones of Injury" where a break can occur. The 5th metatarsal has a bad blood supply in certain regions and therefore it has trouble healing. If trees dont get enough water, they will shrivel up and die. Even though our bones look like rocks, they are more like trees that only stay strong when they have healthy roots. If the blood supply to a bone is also injured when the bone breaks, then the bone cannot heal because it cannot get the nutrients it needs.
5TH METATARSAL FRACTURE NOT HEALING CRACK
Our body can only fill in the crack with new bone when these nutrients are delivered (in the same way that you can only build a house if the supplies are delivered). So heres the situation: A broken bone heals with nutrients and growth factors delivered to the bone via our bloodstream. Its like saying: The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Jones and other orthopedic doctors? This bone doesnt heal like the other metatarsal bones, its a problem child, and so it often requires special treatment. So what makes the 5th metatarsal bone so special that it gets so much attention from Dr. Its also a very important bone of the foot because its very mobile an so our muscles can make small adjustments to help maintain balance. The 5th metatarsal connects your pinky toe to the rest of your foot, and this is the bone we talk about here. The 'forefoot' has 5 bones (called metatarsals) which connect the toes to the 'midfoot'. Your toes each have 3 small bones (except the big toe which only has 2) and as you go toward your ankle the bones get bigger and bigger. So your foot has a lot of bones, 29 total. To better understand the injury lets quickly review our the anatomy of our foot. Jones) who first wrote about the fracture after sustaining the injury while dancing. It got the name "Jones fracture" for the doctor (Dr. More specifically, the break occurs along the middle and outside portion of the foot.
A Jones Fracture, aka a 5th metatarsal fracture, is a type of broken foot.
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