What cured it for me

Single legged squats!!!

https://youtu.be/xfl7SDj0Gzs?si=GlRsdHo3WhTE5UMw

A little bit about my story:

I loved running in high school. I loved the open landscapes, the rolling hills, the laughs with friends that melted all my worries away.

Then one day I felt a shock between the second and third toe of my third foot.

Since then, I had tried wider shoes, alcohol injections, RFA, surgery, (which I regret terribly), PRP, a surgical revision, (which made things much better), all with incomplete or inconsistent results.

As I got older I developed the humility to start asking myself whether this was more than just a genetic abnormality and might be due to a problem in my running and walking form. I started going to physical therapy, which helped a lot, but I never finished the progressions and had to finish early due to covid. But it planted the seed in my head that this was due to a form problem, not just an unlucky genetic abnormality.

Then I got into walking barefoot, which helped a ton, and basically eliminated my neuroma pain, but at the cost of other injuries in my arches and my knees.

In particular, instability in my hips and core were having knock on effects down the chain causing me to twist my feet into the ground as I ran/walked. Single legged squats helped me build the strength I needed to pull my feet along the ground along the direction of motion.

I've just started 3x5 of them every other day about a week or two ago, and the results have already been astounding!

I can run so much now!!!

I don't know where you are in your neuroma journey, but please whatever you di don't get surgery,skip to wide shoes like altras and single legged squats!