Callous or Corn on your fifth toe: The Best Treatments

You have the corn on your 5th toe since you do not know when.  You know it is annoying it is right on the knuckle or close to it.  Every Time you do something to treat the corn it comes back.  Sometimes, the corn on your fifth toe is so painful, you cannot wear some of your favorite shoes or sneakers.  How do you get rid of the  fifth toe corn and what causes it?

The callous on your fifth toe is in most cases caused by a bone spur or flexion at the fifth toe joint, which causes the knuckle to rub against shoe gear which causes the callous.  The contracture occurs for many biomechanical reasons, with your foot.  The only way to straighten the 5th toe and correct the contracted 5th toe is surgery.  The surgery is short and sweet the surgeons will go in and grind down the spur, excises the corn and then using on a plastic surgery technique straighten the toe.  The surgery takes tops ten minutes.  The surgery is an option, and really the best option if you want to be rid of the callous on your fifth toe once and for all.

However, if you do not want surgery, cannot afford surgery, or you just want to try some other methods of treating it first.  Here are a couple, have you ever bought any of those Corn Remover pads that emit a chemical.  I bet you placed them on the callous, and after a week it worked great the callous turned a whitish flaky appearance and just scrubbed it off.  Then the callous came back two weeks later.  See, the problem is callous removal pads do not take care of the underlying problem which is the bone spur.  So unless you address the underlying issue the corn will return.  The best pads for this time of problem are pads that take pressure off the spur and help stop the shoe or sneaker from rubbing against your toe.  There are many of these toes on the market and the pads are inexpensive to treat the fifth toe.

Other treatments include buying a bigger shoe such as New Balance tend to have a greater toe box.  So the fifth toe has more room and will not rub up against the shoe.  You can try over the counter orthotics to help address the underlying issues that caused the callous but this will not address the problem of the callous.  I hope this has helped and educated you about the annoying fifth toe callous.