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Metatarsalgia, a torn plantar plate, pain in the ball of foot at the second MTP joint. This all started when I decided to run the New York City Marathon 2002. I trained and ran a lot of half marathons and then did end up running the New York City Marathon and crossed the finish line. I enjoyed my running days. I continued to run and in 2007 I started to feel pain in the ball of my foot. I got orthotics and that helped for about a year and then in 2009 I started running again and the pain returned. In 2009 because I couldn’t get the pain resolved by conservative methods I op