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Plantar digital neuroma or Morton’s Neuroma is a soft tissue nerve entrapment, which commonly affects one or more of the small nerves in the foot. Most commonly found in the second and third web spaces. They can cause mild to severe pain between the joints in the front of the foot and there is often numbness in the one or more toes.
Diagnosis can be aided by lateral compression across the forefoot. Increased pain and often a click are elicited (Mulder’s sign) aiding diagnosis.
If patients do not improve to an acceptable level within the community podiatry service, they will be escalated to the Podiatry MSK or Foot and Ankle Orthopaedic service.
M.A. & L.S. 08-03-24
