OTHER TOPICS IN THIS CHAPTER
- Overview of Foot and Ankle Disorders
- Achilles Tendon Enthesopathy
- Anterior Achilles Tendon Bursitis
- Apophysitis of the Calcaneus
- Bunion
- Freiberg Disease
- Hammer Toe Deformity
- Inferior Calcaneal Bursitis
- Interdigital Neuroma
- Medial and Lateral Plantar Nerve Entrapment
- Metatarsalgia
- Metatarsophalangeal Joint Pain
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Plantar Fibromatosis
- Posterior Achilles Tendon Bursitis
- Sesamoiditis
- Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
- Tibialis Posterior Tendinosis and Tibialis Posterior Tenosynovitis
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Metatarsalgia is a general term for pain in the area of the metatarsophalangeal joints. (See also Overview of Foot and Ankle Disorders.)
Most common causes include
Submetatarsal head fat pad atrophy typically associated with aging
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