Stress Fractures Part 2

Yesterday I spoke about certain types of activities that increase your risk for stress fractures. So how do you decrease the risk?

Alternating your activities is the best way. If you are a jogger, the repeated shock to the same body parts is what can cause a stress fracture. Instead of jogging every day, try swimming or biking and only jogging every other day.

Any time that you are participating in some type of activity that is considered a high impact exercise, vary it with low impact activities. This will help protect you from a stress fracture which often times are difficult to heal.

Tune in tomorrow for more suggestions.