Cracked heels are one of the most common things we see at the clinic — and they’re usually more complicated than they look. That hard, split skin around the rim of your heel (clinically, heel fissures) shows up when the stratum corneum, the outer layer of skin, loses its stretch and can’t cope with the load of your body weight every time you take a step. Scrubbing them down or slathering on a chemist moisturiser might settle things for a day or two, but without working out why it’s happening in the first place, the cracks keep coming back.
Cracked Heels Treatment Rosanna: How Podiatrists Treat Dry, Splitting Heels
