Footedness as a potential factor that contributes to the causation of corn and callus formation in lower extremities of physically active individuals

The objective of this study was to investigate the link between footedness and the existence of corns and callus in the lower extremities. To achieve this objective, hyperkeratotic data was collected from 115 right-footed male adult habitual runners with no record of specific congenital anatomical variants or functional abnormalities that can influence threshold values for skin adaptation and injury to the skin and soft tissue layers. From the results, it appears that there was a significant difference in frequency of corn and callus formation in relation to footedness ( x 2 =8.5, P t =2.76, P