Most commonly, they are a sign of a skin condition, wart or microtrauma — a painless injury that can occur due to your toe repeatedly hitting against your shoe. It could also be harmless ...
Repetitive microtrauma or an acute episode of trauma may initiate the process. The patient with sensory neuropathy who lacks normal protective sensation might continue walking when he or she has a ...
The patient was referred to psychiatry to manage the anxiety symptoms. We believe microtrauma caused by the repeated tapping of the free nail edge on hard surfaces led to damage to the onychocytes ...
But for people of all ages, modern life also features an increasing amount of what Haber calls “microtrauma”—repeated wear on the fingertips, which possibly contributes to an increased loss ...