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    • Achilles problems >
      • Achilles tendonitis / tendinopathy
    • Ankle problems >
      • Ankle sprain (Ankle instability)
    • Arch and Ball problems >
      • Flat feet / fallen arches (over pronation)
      • High arched foot / Pes Cavus
      • Metatarsalgia (pain in the ball of the foot)
      • Plantar Fasciitis (arch pain)
      • Sesamoiditis
    • Children - Common conditions affecting children - Osteochindrosis >
      • Osteochondrosis
      • Freiberg's Disease - Pain in the ball of the foot
      • Kohler's Disease - Pain in the navicular (bone near ankle)
      • Osgood-Schlatter Disease - Tenderness in the knees
      • Sever's Disease - Heel pain
      • Sinding-Larsen-Johansson Syndrome - Pain at the bottom of the kneecap
    • Common foot injuries >
      • Ankle sprain injuries (ankle instability)
      • Fractures
      • Shin splints and shin pain
    • Deformities >
      • Bunions
      • Burrowing toe
      • Claw toe
      • Curly toe
      • Digital deformity
      • Flat feet / fallen arches (over pronation)
      • Hammer toes
      • Mallet toe
      • Metatarsalgia (pain in the ball of the foot)
      • Overriding and Underriding toes
      • Retracting toe
      • Tailors Bunion / bunionette
    • Diabetes and your feet
    • Diseases of your feet >
      • Arthritis >
        • Osteoarthritis
        • Rheumatoid arthritis
      • Freiberg's Disease - Pain in the ball of the foot
      • Gout / gouty arthritis
      • Kohler's Disease - Pain in the navicular (bone near ankle)
      • Raynaud's Disease
      • Sever's Disease - Heel pain
    • Forefoot pain >
      • Metatarsalgia (pain in the ball of the foot)
      • Neuroma / Mortons Neuroma
      • Sesamoiditis
    • Fungal problems >
      • Athlete's foot (Tinea pedis)
      • Fungal nails (Onychomycosis)
    • Geriatric foot care
    • Heel Pains >
      • Cracked heels / Heel fissures
      • Heel callus
      • Heel spur
      • Plantar Fasciitis (heel and arch pain)
    • Heel pain in adults >
      • Heel spur
      • Plantar Fasciitis (arch pain)
    • Heel pain in children >
      • Plantar Fasciitis (heel and arch pain)
      • Sever's Disease - Heel pain
    • Knee pain (anterior knee pain) >
      • Patellar tendinopathy (jumper's knee)
      • Patellofemoral pain syndrome (anterior knee pain, runner's knee)
    • Nail problems >
      • Black toenails
      • Ingrown toenails (Onychocryptosis)
      • Fungal nails (Onychomycosis)
    • Pronation - excess / over
    • Shin splints and shin pain
    • Skin problems >
      • Allergies
      • Athlete's foot (Tinea pedis)
      • Blisters
      • Burning feet
      • Callus / hard skin
      • Corns
      • Cracked heels / Heel fissures
      • Sweaty feet and Smelly feet
      • Swelling
      • Ulcers
      • Warts / Verrucae (plantar wart)
    • Toe problems >
      • Bunions
      • Burrowing toe
      • Claw toe
      • Curly toe
      • Digital deformity
      • Hammer toes
      • Ingrown toenails (Onychocryptosis)
      • In-toeing and out-toeing
      • Mallet toe
      • Overriding and Underriding toes
      • Retracting toe
      • Subluxation
      • Tailors Bunion / bunionette
      • Turf toe
    • Vascular / Nerve problems >
      • Alcoholic neuropathy
      • Burning feet
      • Chilblains (cold feet)
      • Neuroma / Mortons Neuroma
      • Raynaud's Disease
      • Spasms
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Neuroma / Mortons Neuroma

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A neuroma is an enlarged, benign growth of nerves.

Morton's neuroma is a thickening of tissues around the nerve that leads to the toes, caused by tissue rubbing against and irritating the nerves.

Morton's neuroma usually develops between the third and fourth toes in response to an abnormal bone structure, unstable forefoot or due to pressure from poorly fitting shoes, wearing high-heeled or narrow, tight shoes or from trauma.
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Symptoms include sensations of burning, tingling, numbness or pain in the ball of the foot that radiates to the toes. The symptoms may present and disappear spontaneously.
 
Treatments generally include wearing corrective shoes or orthotics and/or receiving cortisone injections. In severe cases, surgical removal of the growth may be necessary.

Orthotics support the forefoot and arch which prevents the metatarsals from dropping. As a result, this helps reduce the squeezing of the nerve and consequent tingling and pain associated with Morton's Neuroma.

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