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Someone out there must know the secret of alleviating painful feet caused by a corn while cycling. Care to let us all into the know?

If you want to alleviate the foot I can put you in touch with my surgeon who wants to do that to me. I won't let him.

If you want to alleviate the corn just plough into the skin with scissors and any tool you may buy from Boots. Do it regularly. that is why you have the corn because you have not taken sufficient care.

Harry

Jim
Are your shoes too narrow? I used to get corns on my little toes with shimano shoes and no longer get them with diadora shoes in the same size (46) but apparently wider fitting.
dave

Soak the affected area in warm water and use a pummice stone to remove the softened skin. On no account take any sharp instrument to the area as all you will be doing is inviting infection.
Corns will return if the cause isn't eliminated. The skin hardens as a protection to friction, so find the cause of the friction and eliminate it.

Corns may be quite useful in certain places.
One of the reasons that the Africans are so good at
track events is that they train with bare feet which preumably builds up the hard skin matter on the foot and gives resistance to blisters which destroys any race potential through pain.

My father did not wear shoes at all until he was nearly a teenager; they were very poor in 1905.
Shoes unknown to modern town dwellers can be done without.

Thinking of the Africans many of whom are new to clothing and shoes in living memory, the advantages of shoes and clothing especially in tropical/sub tropical climate are many, not least when in contact with other human beings in close town proximity, but also to prevent skin damage and infection from any number of nematodes, insects, and infections.... five fatal diseases caused by the mosquito alone

Glass is quoted as the bogeyman for flower power non shoe wearers but actually it is not at all difficult to walk on coals and glass with thick
"callus" or "corn" padding on the soles of the feet.... no harm done at all.

Like seat belts in cars it is a question of preventing a few ill people by protecting everybody.

Hygiene in the home is the main thing. If you have ingrained dirt on your feet and growing calluses to deal with it, then what happens to your sheets and your carpets and so on?..... but in itself a corn is a very healthy thing to have, and if it hurts, it can only mean it is getting bigger!

Corns on the hands in agricultural/horticultural manual workers is still quite common, and they may occur on any part of the body.