Lisa’s Broken Foot X-Rays
The X-Rays confirmed that Lisa’s fall – from a crawlspace – on Christmas Eve resulted in a nasty fracture of the fifth metatarsal. The doctor tells us it’s commonly referred to as a “Jones Fracture,” more here at Wikipedia.
It’s a bit of a tricky fracture. As you can see in the first X-Ray, there’s a tendon running outside the left ankle that is pulling on the fractured bone – tension in the opposite direction where healing needs to happen. Less clear in the X-Ray is that the fracture occured at a place where there is very little blood supply.
Full X-Ray:
Zoom in on the fracture:
Sorry to hear about the fractured metatarsal
My favorite classification site for 5th MT fractures is from the FootBlog – http://short.to/gvn – Hopes the healing prcess goes well
Sandnsurf
Hey Mike,
Please tell Lisa to get well soon… Been there – done that – it hurts like Hell!! Hope she is able to stay off it for a bit and let it heal!!
Wendy