Deep Heel Corn Removal (With Stubborn Callus on Top)

First off, I wanna apologize for the weird change in lighting half way through.

I'm still new to this and am getting a Go Pro soon (instead of using my phone).

Plus, I'm doing this scalpel work one handed lol.

Anyways, this was a long-standing hard corn on a elderly patient's heel. It had a thick layer of dome-like skin callus on top - almost like a cap.

I had to be very careful with this as too much force, too fast, and you're risking a skin tear or worse.

​This had to come off first as I wouldn't be able to tell where the actual corn began. It was probably as much this hard skin as the foot corn causing pain in this case.

​There was so much pressure on her heel on a regular basis that you had a double whammy. A corn growing in and hard skin growing out.