Today's episode actually comes from a question sent in by Shay.

She said, "I have a plantar plate complete tear and I had surgery on my left foot in October 2019. So that was a couple years ago. I'm running with some new issues in the right calf, but the main thing I want to learn is how this injury occurs. I'm really afraid of it happening to my right foot."

I talk to injured runners all the time. I lecture at medical conferences, teaching doctors what I do with runners who have these plantar plate injuries and Shay is reasonable to be concerned about this.

Today on the Doc On the Run podcast, we're talking about the three ways plantar plate injuries occur in runners.