Morton neuroma or Morton Metatarsalgia. Footwear as prevention and help in treatment.
Morton's Neuroma, also known as interdigital neuroma or morton metatarsalgia, occurs when one of the nerves between the fingers of the feet and which are responsible for providing sensitivity, is inflamed as a result of continued pressure.
This thickening of the nerve causes a pain in the previous part of the foot, producing a kind of electrical discharges, a feeling of shortening and/or loss of sensitivity in the fingers that prevents the normal march.
It is more common in women than in men and in 75-85% of cases it is usually produced in the nerve between the third and fourth metatarsian.
There may be many causes for it to occur, being the main catch/compression of the nerve with the ligamento intermetatarsal and/or the heads of the metatarsians while walking (mainly in the take-off phase) or while standing. And like risk factors or predisposing factors for Morton neuroma stand out:
- Bad foot support when walking or doing sports, increasing pressure in the area.
- Use of high heel footwear, increasing pressure on meth bases.
- Use of narrow footwear, with oppression of interdigital nerves.
- Direct trauma to the sole of the foot.
- Deformaciones como juanetes o dedos hatillo.
- Deformations produced by rheumatic diseases.
Between the clinical manifestations of Morton Neuroma stand out:
- Absence of external signs like tumefation or swelling.
- Intense and electrical pain enters the bones of the foot that radiates towards the fingers.
- Hormigueo in the affected interdigital spaces.
- Skulls.
- Pain that increases when wearing narrow shoes or compiling the foot, or using high heels.
- Pain that gets worse over time.
- Absence, or rare night pain.
The diagnosis will be given by your doctor or podologist:
It is suspected of symptoms and diagnosis will be confirmed by your clinical specialist through physical foot exploration, and diagnostic tests to confirm the thickening of the interdigital nerve.
The 70-80% of cases can be resolved with conservative treatment without resorting to surgery that will be indicated in case of failure of such treatment.
A fundamental pillar in treatment is the use of appropriate footwear. While it has been commented that one of the risk factors for the appearance of this pathology is the use of narrow footwear and high heels, here we have the fundamental pillar both for prevention and for treatment.
In the face of an inflammatory pathology, we might think that the fundamental thing is an anti-inflammatory treatment, which seems logical and logical. But it is no less logical or important to directly avoid INFLAMATION and in this case you can avoid using shoes with the right width that does not oppress the antepie.
To do this, it is important for each patient to identify their proper width and use the shoes that correspond to their width on a daily basis.
In the following link we teach you to calculate your width.
Once you know your width, here you can discover many models of all types of shoes suitable for prevention and help treatment of Morton's Neuroma, where you can filter your search wide.
Footwear for lady to filter in width
In the face of any doubt that arises for your specific case, you can contact us, commenting on your case and your doubts, and we can help you find ADDEN CALZADO for your specific case.
Be clear in advance that we can help you find suitable shoes, not to diagnose any type of pathology and provide any treatment. We are specialists in footwear and therefore the doubts we resolve are unique and exclusively shoe.
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