Does Greek Foot Predispose to Morton’s Neuroma?

• DOI: 10.4236/ojo.2014.47029
• Publication Date: 2014-07-21T03:40:29Z
• Authors: Christopher Jump; Michael Rice; Daniel Gheorghiu; Jordi Sanchez-Bal...
• Keywords: Neuroma; Foot (prosody)

Background: Morton’s neuroma is the enlargement of an interdigital nerve most commonly located between third and fourth metatarsals. Greek foot a normal variant where first metatarsal shorter than second metatarsal. To our knowledge, there currently no reported association in literature. Methods: Retrospective study 184 patients. Two separate cohorts were recruited. Cohort A comprised 100 randomly selected asymptomatic B 84 patients with history pain histologically confirmed neuroma. Foot shape was determined by using self-assessment tool plain radiographs. Statistical analyses performed Chi-square test on p-value ﹣9). Conclusions: This has shown possible presence Although design limitations does not allow full statistical analysis, we do believe that can help clinicians other health care providers establishing diagnosis painful foot.