Being a foot doctor this is one question which I get asked quite a bit, both clinically and in social occasions. Corns don't have roots. After a podiatrist gets rid of a corn, they actually do tend to come back, and not because they have roots. Corns and calluses come back because the root cause of the corn or callus is still there. A corn is an portion of skin, typically on a toe that will become thicker and painful. The main cause of that thickened region of skin is just too much pressure. It's very natural for skin to become thicker to safeguard itself. Give some thought to what occurs whenever you chop lots of wood and get a callus on the palms. That is the natural protective process of the skin thickening up to take care of itself. Once you end chopping timber, the calluses disappear altogether as the stress which triggered them has stopped.

It's the same process for a corn or callus on the feet. The skin thickens up in a reaction to pressure. You can find various reasons behind that increased force. There might be a bunion or claw toes or a fallen metatarsal bone or even the footwear is too tight. On account of the raised stress the epidermis begins to thicken up much like the calluses on the hands after you chop timber. Nevertheless, as opposed to chopping wood the pressure on the foot from the shoes or toe deformity does not stop and as this pressure carries on the skin continues to get thicker. A callus is a much more diffuse area of thickened skin and the corn is actually a smaller sized but more discrete and much deeper area of thickened epidermis. At some point it gets so thick it really is sore. A highly trained podiatrist can simply remove that sore plantar callus or corn with little trouble and typically it will probably no longer end up being sore. Nonetheless, when the cause for that greater pressure isn't eradicated, then the callus or corn will come back. This is where the fabrication they have roots originated from. They are certainly not similar to organic plant life which have roots which they grow from. The podiatrist didn't forget to clear out the roots. They keep coming back because the cause remains.

So that you can once and for all get rid of a corn or plantar callus on the foot, then the trigger needs to be eradicated. As soon as the corn has been reduced, then that will give quick pain alleviation. A great podiatrist will likely then look further and determine what might have been causing that corn as well as what is possible to reduce that result in. It can be as basic as offering shoe assistance and making use of different or much better fitting shoes. It also may be as complex as requiring surgery to, by way of example, fix a bunion that may have been triggering the elevated pressure. Sometimes if you have a callus on the bottom of the foot, foot insoles are useful to relieve the pressure in those areas. The important thing to understand is that foot corns do not possess roots and they've got a cause. If you wish to stop corns coming back again you will want to eradicate that trigger.