What I normally do is wrap the foot in a wet Epsom salt soaked rag or something overnight for a few nights. Then during the surgery it helps to make the incision and work the kernel out and soak the foot every few minutes. Seems to help loosen it up. If there is no kernel, it will help draw out the swelling. I just wet wrap overnight because the dressing will stay on overnight instead of the 5-20 minutes of soaking . Just a longer time. Sometimes I wrap the wet dressing in saran wrap.
