You indeed can get a neuroma after just one incident or wear of the wrong types of shoes. An accident can cause a neuroma, and depending on the accident, it may already be too large to be dealt with by just icing and resting. I have talked to countless people who have told me so. The key is to stop whatever activity you are doing immediately and address it to make it go away. If you don’t, and continue on for any period of time, it will get worse and worse…
Also, I am learning that if a doctor doesn’t embed the nerve ending into a muscle after they have amputated it and removed the neuroma, then you can and most likely will develop a stump neuroma, as what happened to me. Visit http://www.dellon.com/ who developed this procedure, which now other doctors are starting to implement.
That totally makes sense about targeting the healthy portion of the nerve, mtaio. I wonder how many doctors think of this and do this. And Smarty, that also makes sense about the alcohol sclerosing injections having more success on those who are not active. Some things to definitely think about.