What is bone marrow edema in calcaneus without bone fracture ? and how treatmen?

Bone bruise: Means swelling in the bone, usually due to stress reaction or contusion. Non wt bearing and ice is the best treatment. Nsaids if tolerated. Could take up to 6 wks to resolve.

Trauma to the bone: Bone marrow edema is the bone respondence +to some traumatic event, not strong enough to produce a fracture but sufficient to create the bone respond.Treatment is the same than afracture that is rest and the use of a cam-walker to unload the calcaneous.

Type of fracture: A bone bruise or microtrabecular fracture can cause bone marrow edema on an mri. A few weeks of non-weight bearing is treatment. Ask your primary care physician or orthopedist. Other cause is bone infection, if there is any symptom of infection in the overlying tissues.