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Pain top of r.foot when moved certain ways. hurts worse after rest (or i slept wrong) how do i know if stress fracture?
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Get an X-Ray...: That's the real way to tell for sure. Even then, stress fractures are sometimes hard to see on x-rays until the healing has already started.
Answered 1/14/2018
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