Should I stop using the metatarsal offloading pad as I start running after stress fracture?

If you have a second metatarsal stress fracture, and you want to stop stressing the second metatarsal, so it can heal faster, you must take stress off that bone.  If you apply more pressure to all metatarsals (except the second), it will heal faster.  One of the runners who signed up for the metatarsal stress fracture course for runners was doing better and had starting to run.  He asked me a question I had just not thought of before.  He asked: Should I stop using the metatarsal offloading pads after I start running again and my stress fracture is healing?  Well, that is a great question and that is what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast. 

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