The doctor will examine the foot for small, round, and raised hardened skin areas. These flattened, toughened skin patches are usually less sensitive to touch, but they may cause pain, redness and blisters.
Self-medication and home treatment for foot corn are more likely to damage the good skin and leave your foot open to various infection sources. Foot corn needs the right medical treatment like scraping, shaving or cutting of the hardened skin. Other options include the modification of shoes and treatment with custom orthotics. In rare cases, surgical treatment involves the modification of the bone that is present under the corn.
