Title: Plantar Neuroma – Intermetatarsal Neuroma – Foot Surgical Center
Headings: Plantar Neuroma – Intermetatarsal Neuroma
Plantar Neuroma – Intermetatarsal Neuroma
WHY DO I HAVE A PLANTAR NEUROMA?

Content: The symptoms of a neuroma being with pain or numbness. Additional symptoms include burning and tingling in the toes, feeling like there is a thickening or a lump in the ball of the foot and many of these symptoms are elicited when walking or wearing tight shoes. Often, as the process worsens the patient will feel shooting electrical pain in the foot, even when you are non-active. This pain and electrical feeling can start to travel up your ankle and into the back of your leg if you let it go to long. Focused physical exam. As part of the physical exam we will squeeze the area of the foot just before your toes. If the neuroma mass is present a click can be felt by the doctor. This exam might elicit the pain as well. This exam is called a Mulder’s sign. Diagnostic tests can be performed to confirm the mass is presents and to identify the etiology of the mass.