Corns are caused by excessive pressure and friction on your skin. Corns most often happen on the top of the toes, between the toes and on the bottom of your feet.
Corns are simply the build up of extra hard skin as the body tries to build a shield to protect your foot from the excessive pressure and friction. When the body builds up too much of a shield the corn becomes painful. It feels like a rock in your foot.
Proper care of the corn involved not only removing the corn, but understanding what type of pressure or friction caused the corn and looking for ways to prevent or minimize that pressure and friction. Topical over the counter medications for corns can be dangerous, they are acid and can damage the healthy skin around the corn. If you have painful corns or callouses, please visit our office and let us care for them in a way that is painless, safe and effective.
