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jones break 5th metatarsal

Discussion in 'Ask your questions here' started by Unregistered, Jan 28, 2009.

  1. Unregistered

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    I rolled my foot on a sandal in May. Dr. said no break but also no x-ray taken. July 4 I put weight on my toes barefoot and snapped the bone in two pieces. True Jones break. Cast for 6 weeks non-wt bearing. 2 days out of cast, fell and broke patella resulting in surgery. In November, diagnosed with non-union of 5th metatarsal. Received exogen in late November. Was able to walk on my foot without cane around the house for a few days around January 1. First day back to school(I am a teacher) I walked about 15 ft on an uneven tile floor and was then unable to bear much wt. on the break without severe pain at the break site. Onset of pain was sudden and lasting. Now feel a lump under the break (not evident before incident). xray after this event did not show a new break and also showed that new bone had been formed since november x-rays. Dr. sent me for orthotics but I am having trouble getting a good fit. Can you explain what I did, why I did it, and how to avoid this in the future. I am finally back to being able to walk for short periods without the cane again and do not want to reinjure. Still using bone stimulator and returning to Dr. in late Feb. for recheck. I have only walked over that floor once since then and I was VERY careful to lean heavily on the cane but my foot still hurt more that on a normal floor.
     
  2. FootDoc

    FootDoc New Member

    I am truly at a loss to understand why questions like this get posted here or in any forum. Clearly, no one without intimate knowledge of your injury, its treatment and followup could possibly offer a meaningful answer, and one any where close to what the attending should be able to offer. How, from your lay description could ANY doctor tell what you did, why you did it and how to avoid this in the future?
     
  3. Unregistered

    Unregistered Guest

    So -- anybody else have trouble walking on a hard uneven surface 6 or 7 months after suffering a Jones break of their 5th metatarsal. If so, how did you handle it to avoid the pain? Anybody rebreak doing something like that?
     
  4. Unregistered

    Unregistered Guest

    Sorry the so called foot doc is so rude with his comment. I'm not a doc, but you may need to have a bone density test to determine if your bones have become brittle, he will have some type of solution to assist with bone strengthening. As you get older your bones get weaker, according to your age. Loss of natural hormone can weaken bones. Hormone therapy can replace what you loose naturally along with vitamins.
    When your bones weaken something simple as stepping down hard or maybe as you described the poor condition of the foundation on the floor you were walking on. You probably caught it right where the break was healingwhen you stepped down.
    A friend stepped wrong on a rock in a parking lot, ER physician said it wasn't broken but the next morning they called her from the hospital to say it was broken and to return for a cast. Sometimes it takes a few days to determine a break.
    After my car accident my foot began to hurt so I had my physician x ray. He asked if I had broken my foot in the past but I hadn't. He said on impact when I pressed my feet down to the floor board to keep from slipping under the stirring wheel I stressed the old fracture which the pain could be arthritis. I broke my hip in the accident from the impact as well. Since that accident the pain in my foot has gradually gotten worse, so bad now I am having a time wearing any shoe except a flat tight slip-on tennis shoe. I made an appointment with my podiatrist, he removed a bunion on my right foot 12 years earlier. That may also be a factor in your case, bunions are caused by to narrow of a shoe. Causes pressure and growth over the bone and involves a nerve that came very painful, as mine did before my surgery. I have seldom had any pain in that foot since my surgery.
    I hope this is helpful and again, please ignore the so called foot doc with terrible bed side manner!
     
  5. Unregistered

    Unregistered Guest

    Actually that was not helpful to what was asked. Can you explain what I did, why I did it, and how to avoid this in the future?
     
  6. Unregistered

    Unregistered Guest

    I'm not a foot specialist but I work in medical field.. I rolled my foot slipping broke base of 5th metatarsal causing tremendous pain which had I known day of slip wouldn't have walked on it.. The results of xray taken 2 days after slip told of break and in a walking cast for 6 wks.. Followup xray midway to indicate healing process than at 6 wks.. Since this not a displaced fracture no specialist needed only a family physician who can do basic care ex. xray followups etc.. If there be pain at removal of cast a followup referral would be done to ensure all occurring as should be.. Cast plus therapy returns you to previous health status.. However this is not your situation because every break is individually assessed.. One cannot know your status without knowing exactly what when where how etc.. If you are seeking a 2nd opinion or 3rd opinion or just another cause without committal than you need to seek a foot specialist that will see you through to full recovery.. Hope you find what you are asking for soon.. Bonne chance!
     
    Last edited: Oct 19, 2009
  7. FootDoc

    FootDoc New Member

    Apparently, the non-fan of mine to whom the above admonishment was directed now finds that it takes more than solicitous and kindly words to properly answer questions which posters pose.
     
  8. Unregistered

    Unregistered Guest

    OKay if you actrually do have a Jones Break which I do then you would know that 1 it is the most difficult place to heal a brake because there is low blood circulation 2 tha this type of brake is most common to brake again and again and again thus needing surgery to hold and heal it together.
     
  9. FootDoc

    FootDoc New Member

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    For a lay person with individual or very limited experience to assert that his/her experience necessarily dictates what needs to be done for someone else is a major flaw of medical questions being answered by non-medical persons. Although statistically, non or mal-union of Jones fractures occurs someone less when and open reduction and internal fixation is performed, when properly evaluated by an experience specialist, non-surgical treatment has often resulted in good healing. Both repairs, when successful, should return to bone essentially to full strength, and there is no difference in the propensity for re-fracture between a well healed non-surgical repair and a well healed surgical repair. The choice should be left to an experienced specialist rather than on the basis of a lay individual's stated experience.
     
    Last edited: Apr 28, 2010
  10. Unregistered

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    Dude, I'm n my early 20s n I totally kickboxed my foot.... Of course I am going to the doc. today @ 3:00. It was caused by major force so I am assuiming the worse case of jones darn fracture, crutch dnt fit in my wardrobe. Especially for 6 wks (can't go clubbing) also I am a stylist and dnt wanna look busted. I read I can just get immidiate surgery (fast fix). Well heres to hoping.... hope the teach works it out!!!!
     
  11. Unregistered

    Unregistered Guest

    Ok first of all, are you very heavy?? Sounds to me like you weigh more than the amount you should be putting on your foot. Also, NOBODY but you knows exactly what you did when you injured or reinjured (or whatever) your foot.
    Second of all, what did your doctor say to this question? Have you tried talking to him about your injury considering that he is the one who has seen the x-rays?
    Also, if you are a school teacher then I am superman. I don't see how anyone could understand the question in the first place to even give an answer.
    LAST of all, it sounds as if you have a problem with the pain meds. If the x-rays do not show a new break and you, who obviously are not a dr., thinks you have one then chances are you DON'T have a new break. X-rays DO NOT lie. Speaking from personal experience: Usually when someone keeps complaining with something hurting and there is no reason for it, they are trying to get pain pills. Also, I do not currently have any broken bones but I am ALWAYS careful when I walk on uneven floors. I even grab my 3 yr old sons hand when he walks over uneven floors. BE MORE CAREFUL!!
     
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