Cuboid stress fracture vs. Capsoluloligamentous strain associated with cavus foot. How can a runner tell the difference?

If you have this pain on the outside of your foot near the cuboid bone, you might start worrying you have a cuboid stress fracture.

Cuboid stress fractures are rare. 

 

In fact, cuboid stress fractures account for  less than 1% of all the stress fractures that happen in the foot in athletes. 

But there is something more common that can feel like a cuboid stress fracture. 

 

Doctors call it "capsuloligamentous strain."

 

How can a runner tell the difference between a cuboid stress fracture and this thing called capsuloligamentous strain? 

 

Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc on the Run podcast.