hi, so today i'm going to talk to you for a fewminutes about how to self-diagnose a stress fracture of the metatarsals. now, first ofall what a stress fracture is, it's just a tiny fracture through the outside of a bone.matter of fact, it's so small that they normally don't even show up on an x-ray initially.they usually come from overuse, for example you've been running a little bit more, you'vebeen wearing less stable shoes. but a lot of times there's no particular reason. a lotof people just come in and say i didn't do anything different but the top of my footstarted hurting. so here are the symptoms you are going tofind have if you have a stress fracture of the metatarsals. number one, you're gonnahave swelling over the top of the foot. usually a little bit of swelling in this area righthere. number two, if you take your hand and you start pushing down on the top of the foot,what you'll be doing is actually pushing on these metatarsal bon...