The very first step in healing a plantar plate sprain is to make sure that you don't make the condition worse. Because it's a tiny little ligament and it's easy to make it worse!
In many cases you can continue to run and still heal a sprain of the plantar plate. But this depends on many different factors. However, there are some exercises which I believe are much more stressful than running when it comes to the stresses applied to the plantar plate. If you do these exercises you can rest assured that a tear in the plantar plate is going to continue to get worse.
So without further ado here are the top five worst exercises for a plantar plate tear.
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