Drop us a line or give us a call. The address is 6553 California Avenue SW, Seattle WA 98136. They can occur on any part of the foot, but when localized under areas of pressure, for example, the heel or metatarsal head region, they give rise to tenderness and localized pain. Warts are caused by a DNA virus belonging to the papovavirus group. Areas where young adults and adolescents live together and bathe in common areas such as boarding school, public baths, and military dwellings have the highest rates.
Warts are transmissible from location to location on a given patient and from person to person.
It is only when the body's defenses are weakened or the invasion is too strong for the body, or because some break in the body defenses has occurred, such as a cut or a scratch that penetrates the skin, that the viruses have a chance of setting up a stronghold. In the case of the plantar wart virus, the resulting infection causes a plantar wart. This distinction may be difficult to make. However they are two very different things and must be treated completely differently. The common callus or corn is a normal skin response to localized pressure.