A metatarsal stress fracture, is probably one of the most common running injuries that you could get when you're training for a long distance event like a marathon, or an ultra marathon or if you're relatively new to running.

But the problem, of course, is that not all running injuries that seem like stress fractures are actually stress fractures.

This video by Dr. Christopher Segler talks about the top 3 conditions often misdiagnosed as a stress fracture in a runner