<P> Conservative treatment for foot pain with Morton's toe may involve exercises or placing a flexible pad under the first toe and metatarsal; an early version of the latter treatment was once patented by Dudley Joy Morton . Restoring the Morton's toe to normal function with proprioceptive orthotics can help alleviate numerous problems of the feet such as metatarsalgia, hammer toes, bunions, Morton's neuroma, plantar fasciitis, and general fatigue of the feet . Rare cases of disabling pain are sometimes treated surgically . </P> <P> Morton's toe, especially the second - toe - is - longer versions, has a long association with disputed anthropological and ethnic interpretations . Morton called it Metatarsus atavicus, considering it an atavism recalling prehuman grasping toes . In statuary and shoe fitting, a more - protuberant second toe has been called the Greek foot (as opposed to the Egyptian foot, where the great toe is longer). It was an idealized form in Greek sculpture, and this persisted as an aesthetic standard through Roman and Renaissance periods and later (the Statue of Liberty has toes of this proportion). There are also associations found within Celtic groups . The French call it commonly pied grec (just as the Italians call it piede greco), but sometimes pied ancestral or pied de Néanderthal . </P>

Is your second toe longer than your other toes