The foot’s response to excessive pressure, calluses are an area of hard, thickened skin. Often the result of a biomechanical abnormality, tight-fitting footwear, or a predisposition, calluses can be very painful.
Corns are a focal pinpoint of hard, thick skin that takes a cone form deep within the layers of the skin. The treatment of corns involves taking out the deep core and debriding the dead calloused skin away.
