Morton’s Neuroma presents as pain at the ball of your foot due to the thickening of the tissue around a nerve fibre

Are you at risk?

• Commonly linked to women who wear high heels but more accurately is related to wearing narrow footwear for a prolonged period

• Constant repeated pressure to the ball of your foot will also add to the risk such as running, ice skating, etc

• People with issues such as bunions, flat feet and others will also be at higher risk as most tend to wear ill fitting footwear

Symptoms

• Pain on the ball of your foot that may radiate to surrounding areas

• Feeling like there’s a pebble stuck in your foot

• Tingling/numbness in your toes

• Shooting pain through your toes

treatment

Conservative management can be as simple as modifying footwear to reduce pressure on the nerve fibre to orthoses that can aid “normal” function. Commonly injections such as corticosteroid injection are prescribed by your doctor to help pain relief. Treatment options such as ethanol ablation and radio ablation are highly effective in reducing the Neuroma. As a last resort, surgery is usually recommended.