Ball Of Foot Blister Prevention
This is a major weightbearing area of your foot.
Ball of foot blister prevention. Better than basic home treatments for blisters learn advanced techniques and blister products like hydrocolloid blister plasters the two patch technique and the heel lock. It s difficult to walk with blisters on bottom of feet particularly under the ball of your foot. What frustrated me the most when i told most people this is that they immediately responded along the lines of get new shoes or wear the right socks. Foot blister prevention and treatment is what we specialise in.
Typical causes of blisters on the feet include friction and pressure from wearing the wrong kind or size of shoes from damp socks or skin and from intense activity. Whether it s on your heel toe or ball of your foot that little irritation is well irritating. A foot blister caused by friction typically resolves within a few days with home treatments. If you already have blisters on your foot.
Blister prevention strategies hone in on the causative factors discussed here plus a couple of other shear minimisation strategies let s go through them one by one. Unfortunately some blisters don t respond to home treatments or worsen over time. When you reduce friction most people think you re trying to stop rubbing. Why this area is susceptible to blisters.
In this article you ll learn about. 15 june 2018 in my first year or so of running my running speed and distance gains were significantly held back by blisters on the ball of my foot which were blisters caused by gait not shoes. 5 ways to prevent blisters on the ball of your foot. Blister prevention strategies 1.