Was the plantar plate ligament injured before my MRI?

I was recently doing a second opinion consultation with a runner over a webcam to review the MRI of his foot.    What we found was that he had what looked to be attenuation and a partial tear in the plantar plate ligament on his MRI.    There was a lot of inflammation in the foot around the ligament, not just within the ligament itself.  He asked me was really good question:   “Could my plantar plate ligament been have injured long before I ever got an MRI?”   Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.