Home Remedies for
Decreasing Bunion Pain on Your Own
We have strong feelings about how bunions should best be treated. First,
you should try all conservative treatment before considering surgery.
Surgery should be your last resort. Second, you should see a good
podiatrist for treatment if you have bunions. Although there is a lot
you can do on your own to decrease the pain associated with bunions, to
slow or stop the bunion from getting bigger, you need more sophisticated
treatment. For example, if prescribed correctly, custom orthotics have
been shown to decrease the forces that cause bunions.
If you cannot see a podiatrist right away, however, here are some bunion
self treatments that you can do on your own to decrease bunion pain.
Most of the items listed below are available at www.FootAnkleStore.com
and a link is provided to those items.
Use an arch support in your shoes. This will act to transfer force off
of the area of the bunion. OTC arch supports will not work as well as a
quality custom orthotic, but will help. One that works quite well for
bunion problems is the Powerstep, available at www.FootAnkleStore.com.
Use a separator between your first and second toes to prevent them from
abutting against each other. The best separators are made of silicone.
Try the Gel Toe Separator.
Use a Bunion Splint at night to keep the big toe straight and prevent
the first toe and second toe from pushing against each other. We have
had some patients tell us that they think these splints helped
straighten their toes even when not wearing the splint – but there is no
proof of that in the literature.
Find a shoe store with well trained shoe fitters to fit your shoes. If
you are in Washington, California, Iowa, Texas, Florida or Nevada you may find a
SHOES-n-FEET store near you. A good shoe fitter will not only lead you
to the best fitting shoes, but can often modify the shoe to fit
difficult to fit feet.
Have your shoes stretched over the bunion deformity.
A home remedy will not get rid of your bunions or prevent them from
getting better. But you can use self treatment to decrease pain. The
items you order from www.FootAnkleStore.com should arrive in just a
couple of days. For more information on bunions see the following pages: Bunion Information Bunion Surgery
