We've had good luck with a diagnosed case of pretty severe
capsulitis of the second toe using insoles from naturalfootgear.com
(we are not affiliated with them), after trying homemade toe pads
for Morton's toe made from the instructiuons in the
heal-your-Morton's-toe book (can't remember the title). The
home-made toe pads did work pretty well, but they always had to be
remade as they wore out, and so were never exactly the same each
time. The insoles from NF are the 6.5mm ones, specifically for
capsulitis, and the people on the phone there are super helpful and
into it. (They also have shoes and toe spacers, which we also might
be trying.) Also using massage, stretching calf muscles, never
walking on hard floors in bare feet. The pain used to be so bad it
was hard to walk at all, and now it's almost completely gone
away.