Typically, the normal foot can carry a person’s weight comfortably. Structural changes of your feet and especially in the toes and the ball of the foot, can cause increased pressure and friction when standing or walking. The increase in pressure or friction will produce irritation of tissue that reacts by thickness of the skin. Over time, the ligaments and bones under the skin will become damaged by the increase in pressure or friction producing a functional deformity. Additionally, as we age, we may lose the protective fat pad in the ball of the foot which with increased pressure makes the callus condition worse.
Corns between the toes are called “soft corns” because they retain moisture and do not get hard. Sometimes a small, inflamed, painful reddish pouch may develop. This pouch is known as a bursa and complicates the presence of a corn.
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