Heel pain is a common symptom that has many possible causes.
Feet rarely disturbs us, especially in youth. But it is worthwhile to appear any problem with your feet, as understanding comes to what extent our life and morale depends on them.
Pain in the foot near the heel is extremely unpleasant and almost completely dislodges a person from the usual life rhythm - even a short walk becomes a test for strength.
Like the entire foot, this part is a shock absorber.
A soft layer of fat and bone, the largest in the entire foot, can withstand enormous loads when moving. But through this bone there are blood vessels, why in comparison with other bones it is soft, spongy, pass through it and nerves.
Pain in this place can be provoked by different processes that occur during walking and running.
Contents of the article
- Reasons for heel pain
- Heel pain when walking
- Methods and objectives of treatment
- Traditional medicine
- How to prevent pain
- Findings
Reasons for heel pain
Causes not related to the disease:
- regular overstrain of foot structures;
- thinning of subcutaneous fat on the sole of the foot near the heel with a sharp increase in movement activity;
- a long stay on your feet during the day;
- rapid weight gain, obesity;
- stretching or rupture of tendons;
- bruise of the calcaneus with inflammation of adjacent tissues;
- fracture of calcaneus.
Diseases that can cause pain:
- Bechterew's disease;
- rheumatoid arthritis;
- gout;
- heels osteomyelitis;
- disease of the North;
- osteochondropathy of the calcaneus calcaneus.
Diseases accompanied by pain in the heels:
- infectious diseases: urogenital, intestinal;
- inflammation: heel spur, bursitis, tendonitis Achilles tendon;
- malignant formation;
- neuropathy of medial calcaneal branches of the tibial nerve;
- Bone Tuberculosis.
Heel pain while walking
This problem worries not only adults but also children.
In this case, the cause can be flat feet, excess mass, an incorrect way of life of the baby, causing violations of connective tissues of the heel.
When walking, slightly lift the back of the foot, transferring most of the load to the front.
If the heel hurt during movement, it makes sense to think about the normalization of the body.
To prevent pain in the feet, it is necessary to strengthen them with special gymnastics.
It's very simple - you need to take an ordinary ball for tennis and roll it on the floor of the foot. Exercise for 7 minutes each leg.
Very useful massage heels, which you can do yourself.
If severe heel pain occurs during movement, the cause may be:
- Infringement and inflammation of the Achilles tendon - in this case the pain is concentrated above the heel on the back of the leg. If the tendons of the soles of the soles are damaged, the pain concentrates under the heel.
- Damage to the tendon - too heavy load as a result of wearing shoes on the heel, overstrain of the tendon due to prolonged walking with flat feet.
- Some infections, including sex. In many cases, hidden infections cause reactive inflammation of the heels. Sometimes it turns out by certain signs to determine the infectious nature of the inflammation of the tendons of this part of the foot.
- Inflammation of calcaneal region. This inflammation appears as a consequence of some chronic inflammation of the joints: psoriatic arthritis, Bechterew's disease or gout.
- Sometimes the inflammation of the tendons is the first sign of the above diseases, but most of it appears already in the subsequent stages - after the inflammation of the joints or spine.
The analysis of the blood of patients with inflammation almost always makes it possible to detect in the venous blood a significant increase in the content of uric acid( with gout) and special indicators of inflammation in Bechterew disease or psoriatic arthritis.
Pain in the back above the lower back can indicate severe spine diseases. You can find out more details in our article. The dislocation of the foot is an unpleasant and painful occurrence. Correctly rendered first aid in case of dislocation of the foot considerably shortens the time necessary for complete recovery.
Methods and objectives of treatment
Treatment of pain in the heel consists of medical and physiotherapy methods, creating foot rest, massage and physiotherapy. The constant use of special insoles reduces the pressure on the disturbing portion of the heel.
For severe pain, low doses of NSAIDs are prescribed. Locally used ointments with these funds.
Thanks to physiotherapy, such pains usually can be treated without medication.
Ultrasound and electrophoresis with anesthetics are used. Shock wave therapy is especially effective.4 procedures are enough for a person to easily step on the heel.
If pain in the heel occurs in the morning, you can not discount the foot massage, which improves blood flow in the foot, improves tissue elasticity, neutralizes inflammation and pain. Compulsory gymnastics is mandatory. Together should be treated and flat feet.
Traditional medicine
The best natural remedy is the spirituous tincture of the swamp saber. Sabelnik is an amazing plant. It has a whole range of useful properties. For the treatment of the heel spurs use its powerful anti-inflammatory effect. Also, the grass stimulates the excretion of the body's salts and immunity.
You can create a customizer for yourself, but you can buy it in a pharmacy. One tablespoon of tincture is bred in 1/3 cup of water and taken inside before meals three times a day. The duration of treatment is 20 days. After a gap of 10 days, the course can be repeated.
It is also extremely useful to make a compress on the heel of a saber for the night.
It should be borne in mind that at the beginning of treatment with the help of folk remedies, pain in the heel can increase. Treatment with herbs should be combined with the supervision of a specialist and in conjunction with his recommendations.
To determine how to treat pain in the heel, you need to proceed from the diseases and causes that caused discomfort.
How to prevent pain
pains in the soles of the feet and heels are manifestation, the way of their treatment depends on the provoking cause or the underlying disease. 
But to neutralize the pain and prevent it from appearing, regardless of the reasons, one should adhere to some recommendations:
- Fighting excess body weight. Excess weight increases the load on the muscles of the foot.
- Wearing special insoles. Especially with flat feet.
- Wear comfortable shoes with a heel not more than 5 cm. Shoes without heels also do not fit.
- Therapeutic gymnastics for feet daily.
- For rapid removal of severe pain in the heel, you can put a piece of ice on a sore spot and hold the cold for 20 minutes, the heel itself and the area above it can be spread with anti-inflammatory cream( fasting gel).
If the pain in this area is disturbing for a long time and can not be handled on its own, ask for help from an specialist.
Conclusions
To neutralize pain in the heel, treatment of the underlying disorder that caused such a manifestation is required.
Painkillers can only curb the pain for a while, but without eliminating the cause of pain can not get rid of. Therefore, with the least pain it is necessary to contact the doctor and begin treatment of the underlying disorder as soon as possible.
