2 Opposite ways injections can help a tarsal coalition in a runner

Today's episode actually comes from a runner who was suspected of having a tarsal coalition, and he was trying to figure out what to do. He was asking me whether or not an injection, like a stem cell injection, might actually help his tarsal coalition if that's what he actually has right now. A tarsal coalition is a thing where you actually have an abnormal union between two bones, and tarsal coalition sounds like a complicated term, but it's really not. You have to think about what injections do and what the goal is with the runner to figure out which is best for you. Today on the Doc on the Run podcast, we're talking about two opposite ways injections could help a tarsal coalition in a runner.