Can Shoe Inserts Heal Hammer Toe?
Recently, various companies have been claiming wonderful benefits of shoe inserts. They are supposed to ease the pressure on the foot when walking and make your life more comfortable. Some go so far as to claim that their inserts can cure foot ailments, like hammer toe, but can they really? Hammer toes is a fairly common foot deformity. It is an imbalance of the muscles that control how the toes flex and extend. Even though poor shoe choices can lead to hammer toe, most hammer toe is genetic. Other common causes of hammer toe are a flat foot or high arched foot. Technically, the definition of hammer toe is pretty narrow, describing a specific problem in the toe joint. However, it is common to refer to many deformities of the toe as hammer toe, including mallet toe and claw toe, so that is what we will be looking at here. Hammer toes are generally formed slowly over decades, starting with the first step of a child. These true hammer toe deformities cannot be reverse with any type of sho
