Morton Neuroma Surgery

parentologist
Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:57:02 +0000

No, no, no! I had one cut out about 19 years ago, and the recovery was HORRIBLE. I was on crutches for like a month, I couldn’t walk normally for at least 3 months, I think it was about 6 months before I started to be anything like normal, and for years afterwards, I had pain in the mid foot, just proximal to where they cut out the neuroma, I think because the fibrous wrapping of the forefoot had been disturbed as a part of the surgery.

Go to an orthotics maker to have them make you a custom orthotic that is exactly right for your foot, with the only addition being a little bump just ahead of where your forefoot bones (just proximal to the metatarsal heads) fall, so that your weight touches down on the bump, and that weight spreads the metatarsal heads, instead of compressing and pinching the nerve. Many people whom I know have used something like this and have quick relief of the pain, and after a few years, no longer have to even wear the orthotics.

Funny you should post this. Just this morning I had a neuroma injected on the other foot, same 3/4 interspace. It started acting up because of having worn winter snow boots to walk the dog this winter, and trying out some hiking boots that obviously weren’t wide enough in the forefoot. I decided to go to the injection early, in the hopes of preventing a lot of scar tissue from forming, but I myself am looking to for a podiatric orthotist to make me the right thing, too.