Fracture that seemed like a plantar plate sprain - a podcast by Dr. Christopher Segler

There are times when you might have a suspected stress fracture in your foot. If so, your doctor may order an X-ray. 

There are other times when it's extremely unlikely that you have a broken bone at all, but it is almost certainly just a soft tissue injury.
 
One of the questions I get a lot from runners with plantar plate sprains is how to make sure the pain is not from  a stress fracture.  

I have only seen one case where somebody had fracture pain in the exact same spot you would have pain when you had a plantar plate injury. 
 
Can a fracture in the metatarsal seem like a plantar plate sprain? 
 
Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.

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