I believe many people often feel bursts of pain in our heels, that is heel pain. There are many reasons for heel pain. How to treat heel pain? Here are the causes and treatment of heel pain I sorted out for you. I hope it will be useful to you!
1. Plantar fasciitis
The most common cause of heel pain is the lesion caused by the accumulation of long-term, chronic and slight trauma, which is manifested as the rupture of fascia fibers and its repair process. There may be hyperosteogeny near the medial fascia below the calcaneus to form bone crest. It is shown as bone spur on lateral radiograph.
The latter is often considered to be the cause of heel pain, but clinical studies have proved that its causal relationship with heel pain is difficult to be sure. Plantar fasciitis is not necessarily accompanied by bone spur, and people with calcaneal bone spur do not necessarily have heel pain. Heel pain caused by plantar fasciitis can be cured naturally.
If there is heel pain, the heel can be padded up, so as to reduce the tension of Achilles tendon on calcaneus and reduce the pain. At the same time, it can also be treated by drug injection.
2. Heel pad pain
It often occurs in the elderly. The heel pad is an elastic pad formed by adipose tissue and elastic fibers under the calcaneus; In youth, the heel pad has strong elasticity and can absorb oscillations. In old age, the elasticity of heel pad decreases, and the calcaneus bears weight without pad. In severe cases, scar and calcium deposition can be formed, causing heel pain. Heel pad pain is different from plantar fasciitis. There is tenderness under the whole heel. The treatment method is to use sponge heel pad or local drug injection.
3. Retrocalcaneal bursitis
The bursa most likely to occur between Achilles tendon and skin is caused by the friction damage of inappropriate high-heeled leather shoes. The wall of the bursa is variable hypertrophy, filled with synovial fluid, local swelling and tenderness. The treatment method should improve the shoe shape. If the swelling of the bursa does not disappear, it can be punctured and attracted, and hydrocortisone can be injected.
4. Osteoarthritis of calcaneus
It often occurs in boys aged 8 ~ 12 years old. The lesion is similar to osteoneuritis of tibial tubercle of lower leg. It is a symptom caused by tendon traction of unhealed epiphysis during development. The pain is below the attachment point of Achilles tendon, and can occur on both sides at the same time. Running and standing on your toes can aggravate your symptoms. The symptoms disappeared naturally after epiphyseal healing. Generally, symptomatic treatment can reduce the activity of children, and heel pads can also be used to reduce the tension of Achilles tendon on calcaneus.
5. Subtalar arthritis
It often occurs after calcaneal fracture. It is a kind of traumatic arthritis. The pain in the anterior tarsal sinus on the X-ray photo increased when loading. If conservative treatment fails, calcaneal talar arthrodesis should be performed.
Old calcaneal fractures or rare calcaneal tumors or tuberculosis are also causes of heel pain. Diseases other than the heel cause heel pain, including rheumatoid spondylitis, lumbar disc herniation that compresses the sacral nerve root, tibial nerve compression in the lower leg, etc.
6. Bone spur
Bone spur, commonly known as hyperosteogeny, is a common and frequently occurring disease in the middle-aged and elderly. The name of this disease has not been unified at home and abroad. The disease mostly occurs in the middle-aged or elderly over 45 years old, more men than women. Heavy manual workers and athletes who often use waist activities are prone to the disease. The "calcaneal spur" mentioned here is a frequently occurring disease in the middle-aged and elderly. Most people have long bone spurs on their heels, causing pain caused by aseptic inflammation of the bursa.
I. heel pain fumigation and washing formula
Material: 50L white vinegar, 60g Prunella vulgaris.
Practice: first put Prunella vulgaris into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water to fry for 30 minutes, then remove the residue, pour the medicine juice into the basin, and then add white vinegar
Usage: fumigate and wash the affected part of the heel for 20 minutes while it is hot, fumigate and wash it once a day, and persist in using it for 7 days.
II. External application for heel pain
Materials: honey, white vinegar diet, 30 grams of Ligusticum chuanxiong.
Method: grind Ligusticum chuanxiong into fine powder and mix it with equal parts of honey and white vinegar into paste.
Usage: apply an appropriate amount of cream on the heel before going to bed every day, take it off the next morning and use it for 7 consecutive days.
Folk prescription 1 and 2 can be used at the same time. Smoke and wash the heel first, and then apply externally.
III. safflower Huoluo wine
Materials: 500 ml of Baijiu, 9 grams of shikonin, 9 grams of red peony and angelica, 15 grams of safflower.
Practice: soak all the medicinal herbs in Baijiu, seal for 7 days, and remove the residue of medicinal liquor.
Usage: massage the heel with medicinal wine
Heel pain was originally a disease of physical function degradation, but now it is showing a "popular" trend among young people in their twenties and thirties. Experts remind that frequent heel pain in men is often a harbinger of prostate disease. Poor foot maintenance in early years will cause prostate disease in old age.
Experts said that the action of raising the heel can effectively exercise men's kidney and bladder and prevent prostate and heel pain.
As for heel pain, many people think it is caused by heel spur. In fact, this is more the deficiency syndrome of kidney and bladder. Because when men are in menopause, their kidneys and bladder begin to weaken, and they are most prone to heel pain. Some people can pass this pass smoothly. Some people dissipate too much and the associated diseases come out.
Experts said that raising the heel is particularly important for men's health. When men urinate, if they can often raise their heels, they can prevent and treat prostate diseases to a certain extent. The action of raising the heel is simple and easy. Male friends can often do this action when waiting in line to buy vegetables, check out in the supermarket, etc.
Experts pointed out that men's health care should be "fitness for life and fitness for life". Disease prevention and health care itself is not complicated. Walking, sitting and lying can be exercised. The only thing we need is a little patience and persistence. Once discomfort is found, timely select appropriate methods to treat heel pain. The combination of heel pain patch can be used for drug treatment, while maintaining good living habits and optimistic attitude, so as to recover as soon as possible.