Are “stress reaction” and “metatarsalgia” the same?

Today's question comes from one of the YouTube viewers. Tasnim, wrote in and wanted to know whether or not "stress reaction" is the same terminology that is used in the UK for the term "metatarsalgia". 

 

This question points out how confusing these two terms can be when you have forefoot pain that might be a stress fracture, might be a plantar plate sprain, or could even be a neuroma. 

 

Are stress "reaction" and "metatarsalgia" the same terms? 

 

Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.