“After that, it was just figuring out the next steps to getting back on the floor. The next day, they told me I had a stress reaction in my navicular bone, so I was kinda dealing with two problems.

ATLANTA — Navicular bone. Edema. Bone stim. Throughout a 13-minute session with a small group of reporters on Friday night, Anthony Davis unloaded a heap of medical and anatomical terms, most of ...

A 2023 study also published in Sports Medicine examined five case studies of elite athletes who picked up navicular bone stress injuries after wearing carbon-plated shoes.

June 19, 2014: Days before the NBA Draft, Embiid undergoes surgery to repair a stress fracture of the navicular bone in his right foot. He is given a recovery timeline of four-to-six months.

An X-ray was negative, an MRI was inconclusive, and the CT scan finally showed the stress reaction in the navicular – a boat-shaped bone in the mid-foot that helps transfer force from the ankle ...