Food for thought to investgate...........
We recently heard something of interest about a hound that had Laser treatment on one of his front toes.
This greyhound originally had a toe amputated not because of a corn but an infection caused by a grass seed that entered his toe from the soft part at the back of the toe. (It caused a nasty infection in the bone joint and was only seen by chance by the vet.) Since then his other toe on the other foot which has a corn too became painful around the nail and the nail started to lift upwards just like the other toe had. The owners fearing the worst and thinking "not again" he went in for an X-ray to discover the toe joints were quite okay this time, no crumbling at all much to their relief. The vet however thought why he was getting pain and why he developed corns was perhaps due to the ligaments in his toes, they were making his lower toe joint bend sideways instead of being straight, hence making him walk differently on the pad of his toe and so causing corns.
The hound in question has had four lots of laser treatment on his toe and he no longer has pain in his toe and guess what.........the treatment is shrinking the corn.
There is hope that the laser will completely make the corn disappear, the vet advises it should completely disappear.
There is one more treatment to go on the ligaments of his toe and if the corn hasn't disappeared completely by then, they will continue once a month in the hopes it will disappear all together.......so here's hoping!!!
The vet has said the corn should not reappear especially as the ligaments have been made stronger by the laser treatment and he is now walking correctly on that toe.