Category: Toes

A foot cramp comes out of nowhere: the arch knots up, your toes curl or splay apart, and for a few seconds to a few minutes you can’t do much…

If you’ve had a gout attack, you already know how fast it comes on — often overnight, most often in the big toe joint, with pain so sharp that even…

Morton’s neuroma is a common cause of burning pain in the ball of the foot, usually between the third and fourth toes. Despite the name, it isn’t a tumor —…

Sesamoiditis is a common cause of pain right under the big toe, at the ball of the foot. It comes from irritation of the sesamoids — two tiny bones, each…

Turf toe is a sprain of the big toe joint — the ligaments there get stretched or torn when the toe is forced to bend upward too far. It earned…

A toenail separating from the nail bed — a condition doctors call onycholysis (or toenail onycholysis) — is the hard nail lifting away from the skin underneath, leaving a white…

White spots on toenails are almost always harmless — and, despite what you may have heard, they’re usually not a sign of a calcium deficiency. The most common cause is…

Why is your toenail falling off? Most of the time the culprit is an injury — a stubbed toe, something dropped on the foot, or the steady pounding of running…

Does hydrogen peroxide cure foot fungus? No — not on its own. Hydrogen peroxide is a surface antiseptic, and both the fungus in a toenail and the fungus in athlete’s-foot…

Soaking your feet in a basin of amber mouthwash — Listerine for toenail fungus — is one of the internet’s most popular home remedies, and it’s fair to wonder whether…