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Morton's neuroma
Morton's neuroma
What if you feel like a burning pain in the ball of your forefoot or numbness in your toes?
Morton's neuroma is a painful condition that affects the ball of your forefoot, most commonly the digital nerves between your third and fourth toe are compressed by transmetarsal ligament.
It also most commonly occurs in middle-aged women.
Morton's neuroma
What are the symptoms?
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1
The fore part of the soles or toes are numb.
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2
It may also have tingling or burning.
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3
There is a radiating pain to the tip of the toes.
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4
Pain appears when the interdigital space between the metatarsal heads is pressed and the pain disappears local anesthetics are injected.
Morton's neuroma
How to treat it?
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Step 1
Conservative treatment
You must wear shoes with wide feet and low heels and also you can use metatarsal pads.
In addition, the symptoms should be controlled with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and antiepileptic drugs. If there is no improvement, neuroplasty should be performed. -
Step 2
Neuroplasty
This is an injection therapy that is performed once a week about three times. After this procedure, the pain is relieved and improved. There are no side effects, so you don't have to worry about.
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Step 3
Prolotherapy
Prolotherapy is the procedure that is prescribed if there is no improvement despite the fact that all of the above treatments have been performed.
The treatment is performed about 3 or 5 times
once every two weeks.
After the procedure for about 3 or 5 days, the pain is
more severe than before.
However, this is a recovery process, so there is no
need to worry about.