I want to ask a question related to the stress fractures question recently posted. I get a pain in the ball of my right foot when I hike, as the ball of my foot hits the ground fairly hard due to an old medical thing. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might be able to pad the ball of my foot so it's more comfortable walking? I've tried cutting out a foot pad from some hard foam, but that just raised my heel in my shoe and gave me a good blister, and I tried a small pad sort of under my big toe, but that shifted my weight to the other side and helped give me a stress fracture. Does anyone happen to have any other suggestions I could try? I'm going to be switching to SofSole insoles because they have more padding than Superfeet and have dropped 15 pounds from my packweight to try to alleviate my problem.
Thanks in advance,
Sal