Morton's foot

Short, hypermobile 1st metatarsal. Pathology: - hypermobile 1st metatarsal is often inadequate for push-off Clinical manifestations: 1) characteristic weight-bearing pattern centered at the 2nd & 5th (rather than 1st & 5th) metatarsal heads 2) knee & foot pain (metatarsalgia) especially with activity Management: 1) modification of footwear to include an inner border of the shoe bottom that provides a more stable base for push-off may alleviate symptoms 2) foot orthoses

Related

metatarsal bone metatarsalgia (forefoot pain) Morton's neuroma; Morton's entrapment; intergidital or intermetatarsal neuroma

References

Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998