Why plantar plate injuries get misdiagnosed so frequently in runners

Every time I do a second opinion consultation with a runner who has a plantar plate injury, I hate to tell you this, but I hear the same story over and over and over. Basically they call me and they say, "Well, I have a plantar plate sprain. I know I have a plantar plate sprain. I went through the plantar plate sprain course and I've been doing some of those things to actually try to get it better and it's starting to improve, but I was misdiagnosed with another condition." And we're going to talk about why runners get misdiagnosed so frequently when they have plantar plate injuries and why it can be difficult to figure out whether or not that's actually a problem in the first place. Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we're talking about why plantar plate injuries get misdiagnosed so frequently in runners.