Diagnosing pathologies online is a treacherous path, but, for a lot of reasons, I'll try and help people out when I can.
A: I'm not sold on it being a stress fracture. While stress fractures do normally present pain on top of the foot, they are usually found more proximal (closer to your body) on the foot. Where you describe it would be pretty uncommon place to find a stress fracture.
That, plus you say it hurts whenever the foot is moved in any direction. Quick physiology lesson here: Stress fractures are a bone pathology. They happen when there is there is an unequal amount of osteoclast activity going on, versus osteoblast activity. Basically, you're breaking down more bone than you're building. This is caused by a number of factors including crappy nutrition, old age, low calcium in your diet and most importantly, doing too much activity that you're body isn't prepared to handle, specifically impact-related activities.
Stress fractures normally really hurt upon impact. That's how they're caused and that's when they hurt. You said it hurts when you move it, that's not impactful.
Truthfully, I don't know if it still even hurts, but it's much more likely to be inflammation of some tissue in there. The treatment for it is the same as a stress fracture ironically, except it'll heal a lot quicker and won't cause all the problems that coming back from a stress fracture does. Come back to activity slowly, if it hurts, don't do it, etc. Don't be stupid and play through it if it hurts. That'll only prolong it. And, of course, ice that baby when you're done.
That, plus you say it hurts whenever the foot is moved in any direction. Quick physiology lesson here: Stress fractures are a bone pathology. They happen when there is there is an unequal amount of osteoclast activity going on, versus osteoblast activity. Basically, you're breaking down more bone than you're building. This is caused by a number of factors including crappy nutrition, old age, low calcium in your diet and most importantly, doing too much activity that you're body isn't prepared to handle, specifically impact-related activities.
Stress fractures normally really hurt upon impact. That's how they're caused and that's when they hurt. You said it hurts when you move it, that's not impactful.
Truthfully, I don't know if it still even hurts, but it's much more likely to be inflammation of some tissue in there. The treatment for it is the same as a stress fracture ironically, except it'll heal a lot quicker and won't cause all the problems that coming back from a stress fracture does. Come back to activity slowly, if it hurts, don't do it, etc. Don't be stupid and play through it if it hurts. That'll only prolong it. And, of course, ice that baby when you're done.
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