Metatarsalgia is a diagnostic term used to describe pain in the ball of the foot. Gerard V. Yu, DPM, eloquently described and illustrated predislocation syndrome in 1995. What Dr. Yu described was a clinical syndrome characterized by focal pain under a lesser metatarsophalangeal joint (MPJ), most often affecting the second toe joint.1 Subjective symptoms reported by those afflicted with this syndrome would be described as a “grape-like” swelling under the affected toe joint, and a feeling as if there were a stone bruise on the ball of
