Any physio advice for a broken metatarsal?

[chrissiekins]

I have tried googling this, but guess what - hundreds of pages about Wayne bloody Rooney!
It took 3 visits to casualty and a final GP xray referral for my (inept) local hospital to diagnose this about 6 weeks ago. Because it's the fifth metatarsal, near the toe they didn't plaster or bandage it. I have been able to walk on it for a few weeks now relatively easily, but when I started to run today it's clear it hasn't fully healed and because I wasn't given any physio advice, I need to know how I can help myself get better quickly and avoid bone trouble in later life. I don't want to trouble the hospital/GP any more!

[kazminx]

aww im sorry, dont know anything about this but the wayne bloody rooney thing is *****!

[Toureman]

Go to your docter and get a prescription for an oxygent tent!

[Kate77]

have you got private medical cover? go to your doctors and ask to be referred, that way they will xray you etc and you wont be in any pain anymore!

[noxlumos]

If you rest it for about 3 months you'll find that when running all will be well as long as everything was treted as it should have been. It's just a time thing really.