The big foot bogey: base of 5th metatarsal fracture.

Injury ⋅ May 25, 2020

There has always been confusion about fractures of the base of the 5th MT.
Often all fractures in this region are labeled ‘Jones fractures’, and this is problematic, because a Jones fracture is a serious sports medical issue, and very removed from a straightforward stress fracture or cortical fracture of the MT shaft.
Foundation Member Sarah asked me what the implication are..

Simon Bartold
Director of Bartold Clinical