#241 When a runner should and shouldn’t do the hop test for a stress fracture

I was recently lecturing at The International Foot & Ankle Foundation's annual scientific meeting in Las Vegas, and that conference is all for podiatrists, foot and ankle surgeons, and sports medicine doctors, to figure out how to treat foot and ankle injuries better. I was doing a lecture on stress response, stress reaction and stress fractures in athletes, and one of the main points of that talk, one of the take home points for physicians, was about the hop test.