If corns and calluses are just thickened skin, why do they hurt so much?
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In my experience any part of my skin that callused has little to no feeling in it at all, if you remove the callus though you’re exposing very sensitive skin underneath which will take some time to desensitize, is that maybe what you’re feeling?
Wow, 10,000 people have read this post, but no expert has yet come forward with an explanation! We all get corns and calluses – surely this can’t be that mysterious? 🙁
I think it has to do with the tissue around the corn rather then the corn itself. Your skin is soft and able to stretch. When part of the skin hardens, it is no longer able to stretch as well as the rest, so there is pain as the rest if the skin stretches to its limits. Take that over a long period of time, and all of the skin surrounding the corn would hurt, causing you to feel like the corn itself is hurting.
It could also be that corns and calluses are caused by excess friction and pressure. You could just be feeling the pain of the inciting problem, probably magnified as the hardened skin pushes into softer tissues
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