Ball Of Foot Surgery
Tight shoes and high heels can place extra pressure on the ball of your foot causing neuromas and calluses.
Ball of foot surgery. Metatarsalgia ball of foot pain is often located under the 2nd 3rd and 4th metatarsal heads or more isolated at the first metatarsal head near the big toe. A plantar callus is a buildup of hard skin on the ball of the foot. In most cases you ll visit your doctor a couple of weeks after surgery to see how your foot is healing. Many times it is a last resort and final option for treatment of a foot problem condition or injury.
Surgery on the long bones of the feet behind the second third fourth and fifth toes is performed for a variety of reasons but is commonly performed to redistribute the weight bearing on the ball of the foot. It s an umbrella term for a symptom that can have many possible causes as opposed to a diagnosis in and of itself. This is generally for the treatment of painful callouses on the bottom of the foot or for the treatment of non healing ulcerations on the ball of the foot. Learn about the causes treatments and prevention of this injury.
The callus may feel like a stone in your shoe. All the different types of foot surgery foot surgery is usually recommended by your podiatrist to relieve pain correct a foot deformity or restore function in your foot and or ankle. Surgery on the long bones of the feet behind the second third fourth and fifth toes is performed for a variety of reasons but is commonly performed to redistribute the weight bearing on the ball of the foot. In some severe cases such as rheumatoid arthritis surgery may involve removing the metatarsal heads the bones in.
The area just before the toes this is a very common problem and one of the top three complaints we treat. Metatarsalgia is a general term used to denote pain under the ball of the foot. When conservative measures don t relieve your pain and your metatarsalgia is complicated by foot conditions such as hammertoe surgery to realign the metatarsal bones might be an option. It can cause pain numbness or burning.
Neuroma or plantar callus. The medical term for pain in the ball of the foot is metatarsalgia. Surgery on the lesser metatarsals is less common but is most often done to redistribute the weight bearing on the ball of the foot. A neuroma is an inflamed nerve.
It s a good time to ask questions but if you have any questions about your recovery before this visit don t hesitate to call your doctor. Metatarsalgia is a condition in which the ball of your foot becomes painful and inflamed.