Fracture that seemed like a plantar plate sprain

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.