I will always hold shoes, and
I will always hold shoes, and my poor choices of shoes, accountable for having MN. All research shows that the number one reason people develop neuromas in their feet is because of the shoes they wear. Although I preferred to be barefoot whenever I could growing up, when I did wear shoes, I chose poorly, and some of that was my fault, and some of that was the running shoe manufacturers' fault. Shoes with heels and toes boxes that don't allow the toes to splay properly are what cause MN. The heel forces your weight over the ball of the foot, and the toe box compresses the metatarsals into the nerves causing them to become deformed.