In many ways suffering from metatarsal acute fractures can be quite a dramatic event, because it is where a fracture is caused by something sudden like someone standing on your foot and breaking something, or where your foot has been turned in a nasty way, perhaps by a car accident or by someone going over it with a car or bicycle, and you are left to pick up the pieces.
Metatarsal acute fractures can be extremely painful and obviously your first port of call should always be to your doctors or hospital to get checked out. But once you have taken those basic precautions then it may well leave you thinking that maybe you have taken your feet a little for granted, and that it may be a good idea to start to learn how to treat them better.
This need not be some drawn out process however.
All the information that you need to improve the health of your feet and to help you to have healthier feet on an on-going basis is here. This is a complete foot health guide, and is well worth checking out.
What most people don’t realise until they suffer some kind of traumatic event like an acute fracture of their metatarsals, is quite how delicate the bones of the foot really are, and quite how easy it is to have problems with them.
Hence it is imperative that you take the health of your feet seriously, and that you take some steps to become better informed.
For example, you may not be aware that the 5th bone of the metatarsal tends to have poor blood supply, and so is quite prone to metatarsal acute fractures, and is slower to heal if it does suffer from any problems. Knowing this could prompt you perhaps to look into orthotics, or at least to pay closer attention to the way you treat your feet, in order to try to ensure that metatarsal acute fractures don’t happen in the future.