Corns and Calluse Treatment – Randburg Podiatry
Yaseera Hajee’s Podiatry practice regularly treats patients with foot corn and calluse problems as these ailments affect most people at some time in their lives.
Foot Corns
Corns are often a painful, patch of concentrated thickened skin, often circular in shape and clear or yellow in colour. Corns can form on the top of any toe or under the ball of the foot and is the result of regular pressure on that spot.
Corns have a variety of causes including:
- Thin Skin
Although sometimes attributed to genetics, lifestyle and medications, the most common result of thin skin is simply ageing, all of which causes one’s body to over compensate by thickening the skin in the localised area in order to protect the tissue, bones and joints. - Shoes
Ill fitting shoes often result in corns as skin rubs against an area of one’s shoes, leading to increased pressure on a small localised area of the foot or toes. - Socks
Ill fitting socks that are too small or too tight can also create pressure points leading to the formation of corns. - Biomechanics
Biometrics are how one’s body parts move together. Skin rubbing against socks or shoes as a result of how one moves, high arches or flat feet, hammer toes, claw toes and bunions all can lead to the formation of corns.
Where corns are ignored or untreated, one runs the risk of ulceration or infection which can result in serious complications for diabetic patients.
Corns are categorised as follows:
- Neurovascular corns
These corns include blood vessels and nerve endings which makes them challenging to treat successfully. They are also painful. - Seed Corns
- Often linked to dry feet or dry skin, these small corns don’t require treatment as they are not usually painful.
- Soft Corns
- This category of corns frequently occur in between the fourth and fifth toes.
- Hard corns
Most commonly found developing on the top of one’s toes or on the ball of the feet.
Calluses
Calluses while visually similar to corns and equally painful, are often larger and have a more asymmetrical shape and are not as deep.
Our team has extensive experience in repairing these skin conditions such that immediate and permanent relief is provided.
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Yaseera Hajee Podiatry – Randburg
Yaseera Hajee Podiatry is Accredited with the Centre of Diabetes & Endocrinology.
Practice No.: 0505242