Very active patients commonly experience pain underneath the ball of their foot. The sesamoids are 2 pea-shaped bones which sit within a tendon beneath the big toe joint. When they are aggravated and inflamed, it is called sesamoiditis.
Do you ever feel as though you have a stone in your shoe, or you get a burning pain on the bottom of your foot? It may be Morton’s neuroma, the fibrosis of a nerve underneath the forefoot just before your toes, caused by the thickening of adjacent ligaments.
