This really is that one issue that podiatrists get asked a lot, both clinically as well as in social situations. Corns don't have roots. After a foot doctor gets rid of a corn, they generally do tend to return, and not because they have got roots. They return as the reason behind the corn or callus is still there. A corn is an region of skin, typically on a toe which results in being thicker and uncomfortable. The cause of that thickened section of skin is way too much pressure. It's very normal for skin to get thicker to protect itself. Give some thought to what happens if you chop lots of wood and get a callus on the hands. That's a normal protecting physiological of the epidermis thickening up to safeguard itself. When you end chopping wood, the calluses disappear altogether because the pressure that triggered them has vanished.
It's the identical process with a corn or callus on the feet. The skin gets thicker in response to force. You will find many factors that cause that increased force. There may be a bunion or claw toes or a fallen metatarsal or maybe the shoes are too tight. On account of the higher pressure the epidermis begins to thicken up much like the calluses on the hands when you chop wood. However, unlike chopping timber the pressure on the foot from the footwear or foot deformity is not going to stop and as this pressure continues the skin continues to become thicker. The callus is actually a more diffuse region of thickened skin and the corn is a smaller but much more discrete and much deeper area of thickened epidermis. Ultimately it becomes so thick it can be sore. A highly trained podiatrist can readily debride that painful callus or corn without much difficulties and frequently it will no longer be painful. Nevertheless, should the reason behind that greater stress isn't eradicated, then the callus or corn will return. That's where the fabrication that they have roots come from. They're not like organic plant life which have roots which they grow from. The podiatrist did not neglect to remove the roots. They keep coming back because the cause remains.
So that you can permanently do away with a corn on the feet, then the reason has to be removed. After the corn has been reduced, after that that should give immediate pain relief. A good foot doctor will likely then look deeper and ascertain what appears to be causing the corn along with what can be accomplished to eradicate that cause. It could be as elementary as offering footwear information and making use of different or much better fitting shoes. Furthermore, it may be as complicated as having surgery to, for example, fix a bunion that might have been causing the elevated stress. Sometimes when there is a callus on the bottom of the feet, foot inserts can often relieve the pressure in those locations. The biggest thing to realise is that foot corns do not have roots and they've got an underlying cause. If you need to stop calluses coming back again then you need to remove that trigger.