Painful calluses in runners fixed with the strawberry stem technique

If you have ever run with a rock in your shoe, you know just how painful a little pebble can be.

Sometimes a callus forms in a way that it gets rock hard and starts to get embedded in the skin.

Painful calluses can literally feel like a rock taped to your foot. The problem is that callus removal pads don’t work.

Using a pumice stone to shave down the surface of the callus doesn’t really help much either.

 

But you can fix them the same way I do using what I call the Strawberry Stem Technique.

 

Let’s talk about how they form and how this technique works.

 

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we're talking about how you can fix painful calluses in a runner with what I call the Strawberry Stem Technique.