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Home Remedies for Hammertoes and Corns
If you are suffering from painful corns or hammertoes, there are many treatments that a podiatrist can offer you. Make sure to see a podiatrist as soon as possible. There are, however, some simple home treatments for corns and hammertoes that you can do on your own.
Follow our Home Treatment Plan for Hammertoes and Corns for 4 weeks. If you don’t have relief by then, see a podiatrist.
Use a
Silicone Crest Pad to straighten toes while you wear it. These pads go in the sulcus of your toes and act to straighten your toes and act to straighten your toes while you wear them. Soft Silicone Gel will not bottom out like foam and the reinforced toe loop increases durability.
Use a
Leather Crest Pad to straighten toes while you wear it. These pads go in the sulcus of your toes and act to straighten your toes and act to straighten your toes while you wear them.
Leather crest pads are firmer than silicone pads. Some people prefer
silicon crest pads and others leather crest pads.
For corns on top of your toes, use a
Silopad Digtial Pad. This is a soft, comfortable and stretchable slip-on device coated with h Silipos® proprietary gel pad which releases a high grade mineral oil onto the hard skin to help soften and remove corns in a most comfortable way. This product is both washable and reusable.
You can also use
Felt
Corn Pad for corns on the top of your toes. These are great when wearing dress shoes or every day use when you want to make sure you keep the pressure of the corn. These are non-medicated (no acid) pads. When never suggest you use acid pads for corns. If you need to reduce more pressure just double up the pads.
Use a pumice stone to file down any corns. We like the
Hands and Feet Pumice Stone due to it’s easy to hold shape and long life.
For corns between the toes, you want to use a
Gel Toe Spreaders or
Gel to Separators to prevent pressure. Gel Toe Spreaders help
relieve pain of overlapping
toes/toe drift and painful bunions. Gel
will not flatten or lose its shape like foam. Washable and reusable.
You
can also use
Foam Toe Spacers for corns between the toes, to prevent pressure
between toes and help relieve pain of overlapping toes/toe drift and
painful bunions. 
Use
a
Budin Splint to pull down a contracted toe. The
Budin splint
works well for pulling the 2nd toe down to prevent shoe irritation while
walking.
Use an arch support in your shoes. This will not straighten the hammertoe but can reduce the pressure that a hammertoe causes on the bottom of the foot. For hammertoes we recommend an arch support that does not take up room in the toebox of the shoe. he best that we have found for transferring pressure off of a bunion is the
Powerstep Medical Grade Orthotic. 
Wearing the correct socks can help reduce hammertoe pain. Socks help in two ways. First by reducing friction on the bunion and second by providing cushion. Cotton is a poor choice for people with hammertoes because of high friction. Because it has low friction, no seam over the bunion and cushions the bunion from shoe pressure, our favorite sock for bunions is the
Juzo Silver Sole Sock. Available in white and black.
Find a shoe store with well trained shoe fitters to fit your shoes. You can find a list of shoe stores on our Shoe List. 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. If you don’t have a good shoe store nearby, these
Orthofeet Shoes for Women and
Orthofeet Shoes for Men work great for hammertoes as they have extra room in the toe box and are easy to stretch. Both casual and athletic shoes are available.
Stretch your shoes over the hammertoe deformity. You can stretch them yourself with a
ball and ring shoe stretcher.
For
very large hammertoes that hit the top of all shoes use a
stretchable shoe: These Women’s Stretchable Shoes and Men’s
Stretchable Shoes have a unique design that combines suede leather
and spandex, which is both elastic and breathable. It stretches to
conform to the contours of the foot, accommodating foot deformities,
and eliminating pressure on bunions and other prominences. Provides
exceptional comfort for feet with bunions, tailor’s bunions,
hammertoes and bony prominences.
For Women
For Men
nstead of slippers,
use a sandal with an arch support to wear around the house. Like the arch support, this will act to decrease pressure that the hammertoe causes on the ball of the foot. We recommend the
Wave Flip-flop Sandal – available here for its superior arch support.
Use a
Sandal Gel Toe Spreader when you are wearing your flip-flops. Soft Silicone Spreaders with built-in slit for sandals/thongs. It wraps around the thong to reduce friction and enhances walking comfort in thongs, flip flops, and sandals.
For
topical pain relief you can try
Tripod Labs Flexstat. Flexstat is a deep penetrating topical pain reliever that provides quick, effective relief from pain.
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Home treatments will not get rid of your hammertoes, but you can use self treatment to decrease hammertoe pain.
For more information on hammertoes see the following pages:
Hammertoe Information
Hammertoe Surgery
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