A heel spur is characterized by progressive inflammation of the ligaments, muscles, and tendons in the foot area.
The place of their attachment is surrounded by a mucous bursa, which, when inflamed, produces a lot of fluid.
Throughout the day, a person moves, and the mucous membrane ceases to be elastic, causing pain.
A spur or plantar fasciitis causes discomfort when walking, pain, and a feeling like you've stepped on a nail.
The pain may appear in the morning immediately after waking up and go away over time, or it may occur after heavy physical work.
The cause of the disease is the formation of calcium deposits on the lower part of the heel bone. In most cases, a spur appears for no apparent reason. However, there are certain factors that provoke the development of the disease. These include:
• flat feet or too high instep
• tightness of the calf muscle
• running on hard surfaces
• uncomfortable shoes or high heels
• metabolic disease
Traditional drug treatment includes the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as Ibuprofen, Voltaren, Naproxen. They are used internally (tablets) and externally (ointments or gels).
You can quickly relieve the inflammatory process by injecting corticosteroids directly into the sore spot. This manipulation allows you to reduce inflammation and pain in a short period. However, the procedure itself is painful and, in addition, with repeated administration of the drug, fascia rupture is possible.
Traditional medicine knows many ways to treat heel spurs, which can reduce pain, reduce inflammation, and nourish the tissues with useful substances.
Any methods of traditional medicine are best used along with the main treatment and only after consulting a doctor.
So, the most effective methods of treating heel spurs:
1. To quickly treat the disease, it is necessary to steam your feet every evening before going to bed in a strong saline solution (2-3 large tablespoons of salt per 1 liter of water). In conclusion, you should dry your feet well, put on socks and go to bed.
2. A more improved method: in addition to salt (100 g), you need to dissolve soda (5 spoons) and iodine (about 8 drops) in hot water.
Keep your feet in the healing composition for about 15 minutes. Then wipe your feet, lubricate with oil and massage well.
After this procedure, it is recommended to put on socks and “roll” a wooden rolling pin (preferably with spikes) on the floor. By performing such manipulations every day before going to bed, you can cure a heel spur in a month without the use of medications.
3. Pour Chernobyl herb (preferably fresh) with water, boil for about half an hour and steam as part of the leg. Then, without drying your limbs, put on cotton socks and go to bed. The healing decoction can be used for 2-3 more procedures.
4. The grass cocklebur , as they say, “puts you on your feet.” 150 g of the medicinal plant (along with the thorns) must be poured with boiling water and left until the solution becomes bearable for the feet. Limbs should be hovered in this composition for 10-15 minutes, after which put on socks and go to bed.
5. The way our ancestors successfully treated heel spurs at home is warm sand . It warms up perfectly and relieves inflammation. Thermal procedures can be carried out in a natural environment, i.e. at sea, or by heating the sand in the oven and immersing your feet in it at home. The procedure is carried out before bedtime for a fairly long period of time.
6. Bishofite is another natural remedy for treating ailments. It contains a huge number of minerals and nutrients.
The procedure is carried out as follows: first, the heel is thoroughly warmed up, then the fabric is moistened in bischofite gel and applied to the sore spot. Wrap the top in cellophane and put on a warm sock.
The compress is kept overnight. In the morning it is removed and the heel is washed. Lotions should be applied every other day for 2 weeks.
7. Relieves pain and brings noticeable relief using laundry soap . A medium-sized piece of soap must be grated and then melted over a fire. A slightly warm mass should be placed on the sore spot, cellophane tied on top and insulated. Leave this compress on all night and wash your heel in the morning. The procedures are carried out daily for 2-3 months.
8. You can cure heel spurs at home using regular medical alcohol . To begin with, it is heated to 40* C, then the heel is lowered into a container with heated alcohol and kept until it cools completely. Then the foot is not wiped, but allowed to dry naturally. These procedures are carried out every other day for 2 weeks.
9. Another proven effective recipe for spurs. You need to squeeze any baby cream into a container, add 1 egg there, mix and also add vinegar essence (one small large spoon). Mix everything and place the healing composition in a clean jar.
Late in the evening, after a thermal water procedure with salt, you need to rub the heel with a healing mixture, wrap it in cellophane and insulate it. In the morning, remove everything and wash your foot. Treatment is carried out until the contents of the jar are exhausted.
10. Onions and garlic work well for heel spurs. 3-4 cloves of garlic must be crushed (to a pulp) and applied to the sore heel, bandaged. Leave the compress (in the absence of a strong burning sensation) for at least 3 hours.
Onions (1 head) should be cut in half and a drop of birch tar should be added to it. Tie a healing bow to the heel and leave for several hours.
11. Horseradish (leaves or roots) must be boiled for about 5 minutes. Proportion: 100 g of raw material per 1 liter of water. Cool the broth to an acceptable temperature and steam the sore leg in it. The procedure should be carried out 2 times a week.
12. Potatoes are a product that is in every home. And he copes well with the disease. Before using potatoes, they must be placed in a sunny place for a couple of days. Then the green tuber should be grated along with the peel and applied to the sore spot.
The potato mixture is kept overnight and removed in the morning. Treatment procedures are carried out daily for 10 days.
13. Propolis is a bee product that is widely used in the treatment of many ailments, including spurs. Propolis has an analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and absorbable effect.
To begin with, a small piece of propolis is softened in a water bath, then a cake is formed and applied to the heel with the spur. The top is insulated. Leave propolis in place all night. The procedure is carried out daily until complete recovery.
14. Salt compress has proven itself in the treatment of sore heels. To prepare it, you need to take a large spoon of finely ground salt, add pharmaceutical iodine (10 ml) and honey (a large spoon).
All components must be mixed and the mixture applied to the sore spot. It is better to do the procedure during the day, keeping the salt compress on for about 15 minutes.
15. An effective remedy for the hardy. Dissolve a kilogram of salt in water (5 liters) and boil. Cool the healing composition a little and place the sore leg in it (gradually). Let stand until completely cool. The course of treatment is 10 days.
16. Medical bile is a remedy that has a positive effect on the outcome of treatment. Before using it, it is best to steam the heel thoroughly, then wipe it and apply a tampon soaked in purified medical bile. Secure the compress with a bandage, wrap it in polyethylene and a warm sock. The bile should be left overnight, and the foot should be washed in the morning.
17. No less effective in treating heel spurs at home is the use of lard or animal fat. First, steam the heel, then apply a piece of lard or badger fat to it. The latter can be replaced with goat's.
18. Pharmacy turpentine is another folk remedy that helps get rid of the problem. They need to thoroughly rub the sore spot, then put on a cotton sock and a woolen one on top. The procedure is best done overnight for 1-2 weeks.
Traditional treatments include:
1. Foot massage. Helps normalize blood circulation in the foot.
2. Mud applications. Eliminate the inflammatory process, reduce pain.
3. Mineral baths with warm water are no less effective. Improves blood circulation, promotes the resorption of bone formations.
4. X-ray therapy. With its help, the heel area is exposed to an x-ray beam, which contributes to the destruction of pathological cells and tissues. Leads to relief of inflammation and cessation of pain.
5. Laser therapy. Using a laser beam, blood circulation improves, inflammation decreases, and pain is eliminated. The procedure is also useful because it enhances the effect of medications.
6. Ultraviolet irradiation is an equally effective procedure in the fight against spurs.
7. Electrophoresis. The procedure is carried out using certain medications.
8. Magnetotherapy - exposure to a magnetic field. Electric currents arise in tissues, which accelerate metabolism and recovery.
9. Ultrasound involves heating the sore heel. Using this method, metabolic processes are accelerated, spasms are resolved and relieved.
10. Shock wave therapy. With the help of a sound wave, pathological bone formations are broken down and tissues are renewed.
As you know, any disease is easier to prevent than to cure. The proposed recommendations are both prevention and an additional method of treating an existing spur.
1. Fight excess weight.
2. Do not neglect treatment for flat feet. Wear special insoles.
3. Try to engage in sports that are not too intense. Avoid running on hard surfaces.
4. Maintain a normal metabolism.
5. Wear comfortable shoes. The ideal heel height is 5 cm.
If you feel discomfort and inconvenience when walking, do not hesitate to visit a specialist. By following his recommendations, as well as using time-tested folk remedies, you can forget about the problem for a long time and enjoy the ease of your gait.
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In official medicine, heel spurs are treated with compresses with medications, which rarely give a positive result, or with surgery. Therefore, many people suffering from this disease resort to treatment with folk remedies, since they are safer and often give the fastest effect.
Dissolve 1 kg of table salt in 5 liters of hot water. Bring water to a boil. When the water becomes tolerably hot, lower your feet into the bucket and steam them until the water cools. A course of 10 procedures, do not change the solution, but only warm it up. It is quite possible that the disease will leave you after 4-5 procedures, but we still recommend completing the course.
The method is similar to the previous one, only instead of salt water you need to take hot whey.
Pour alcohol into a frying pan and heat over low heat, being careful not to let it catch fire. You need to immerse your feet in heated alcohol for 15-20 minutes. After the procedure, do not wipe your feet.
A heel spur is sometimes confused with the plantar wart, which is very similar in appearance. So if none of the remedies we described give the desired effect, perhaps you are treating the wrong thing.
This folk remedy for treating heel spurs is much simpler and more economical than the previous one. It is necessary to pour 100 g of moonshine, which contains fusel oils, into a cup, set it on fire and warm the soles of both feet over this flame (even if the spur is only on one heel, there is a high probability that it begins to develop on the other). Warm the soles while the moonshine burns. After this, do a five-minute heel massage, rolling corn cobs with your feet, which, as you know, are sometimes used to plug bottles of moonshine or a special massager.
Grate the garlic and make a compress from the pulp for 3-4 hours. Repeat the procedure until the pain completely disappears. If the burning sensation is severe, stop the procedure and switch to other, more gentle means of treating the spur.
To reduce the strength of garlic, you can add a little vegetable oil to the pulp or lubricate the skin with a rich cream before applying a compress.
It is advisable to apply such a compress during the day or evening, since you can get a severe burn on your heel while sleeping.
For the next recipe, in addition to garlic, we will need chalk. We rub the first ingredient, crush the second, and then mix in a 1:1 ratio. We steam the legs and apply the resulting paste to the spur. After a few sessions, your heel will be as good as new.
At night, grate 200 g of onion, put it in a bag and put your foot in it. Wrap the compress on top with a warm cloth. In the morning, wipe your foot, but do not wash it. Perform the procedure 2-3 times.
Grate the radish with its skin on a fine grater and apply the resulting pulp to the spur overnight. In the morning, rinse the heel with warm water. Usually three procedures are enough to get rid of the disease.
Pass the horseradish root through a meat grinder and apply a compress of the pulp to the heel overnight. Sometimes once is enough
Take 40 g of animal bile, 20 g of vodka, 5 g of laundry soap shavings. At night, steam your feet and apply a compress to your heels, bandaging them. After the first procedure, relief will appear. And after 3 days the pain goes away.
You can make such a compress from bile alone, without mixing with other components.
Mix 100 g of melted lard, 1 fresh egg with shell and 100 ml of 70% vinegar. Keep the mixture covered for 3 weeks, stirring occasionally. Then steam the heel, wipe it and apply a thin layer of ointment. Cover with cotton wool and secure with adhesive tape. It's better to do this at night. If it burns too much, you can wipe off the ointment. After 3-4 times the spur will go away. This folk remedy sometimes helps from the first procedure. If the spur does not go away, and the skin is damaged by vinegar treatment, we recommend taking a break, waiting for the skin to harden, and carrying out the treatment again
Grate the potatoes together with the peel on a fine grater, pour onto gauze and apply to the sore spot, covering the top with plastic wrap. Do not take off for a day. Change the bandage daily for a week. In addition to heel spurs, this folk remedy will remove all calluses and corns from the heels.
In addition to the mono recipe, potatoes can be used in conjunction with kerosene. Boil a potato in its jacket, crush it and mix it while hot with 1 tsp. kerosene. Quickly place it on polyethylene and bandage it to the heel. Put a sock on top.
In this recipe, kerosene acts as an excellent organic solvent, and the potatoes serve to heat, soften and absorb dissolved salts. With their help, the spur will resolve after 3-10 procedures.
Place 2 tbsp on a piece of gauze. fresh cottage cheese, attach to the sore spot before bed. Carry out the procedure 3 nights in a row.
Steam your feet in hot water with the addition of baking soda, apply a piece of kombucha to the sore spot, secure on top with a bandage and plaster. After a day, change the compress.
Grind May nettle in a meat grinder. Place the resulting pulp on a burdock leaf and make a compress overnight. For a speedy recovery, you can walk with this compress during the day. Within a week there will be no trace left of your spur.
Pour red pepper into your sock under your heel and walk like that all day.
Pick knotweed (knotweed), put it in socks or shoes if you go without socks in the summer, and walk like this all day. On the second day add a new portion, and so on. After 2-3 weeks the spurs go away. Instead of knotweed, you can take woodlice.
Apply a plantain leaf (unwashed) “inside out” to the heel; when it dries, replace it with a new one. The first 3-4 days there may be severe pain, but you have to be patient, because the result is worth it - in two weeks the spur will leave you.
Take a crust of black bread, spread it with tar and attach it to the spur, wrap it in polyethylene and warm cloth, and then go to bed. While using this folk remedy, all joints and sores may ache, but you must be patient for 5-7 hours. Repeat 3 times. During treatment, you should not stand up or cool down.
Make compresses from turpentine or ammonia at night (alternate every other day): moisten gauze with undiluted liquid, squeeze and apply to the heel, cover with wax paper and cotton wool, put on a sock.
Take a white linen napkin, soap it with laundry soap and apply it to the heel. Place a plastic bag on your leg and tie a warm cloth over it. In summer, instead of a linen napkin in this recipe, it is better to use a burdock leaf. Lather the fleecy side of the leaf with soap - the one that faces the ground.
Heat 1 kg of coarse salt and pour it onto a flat surface. Place your foot on tolerably hot salt and “walk” on the salt with your bare heel for 15 minutes. This folk remedy helps get rid of spurs in 2-3 procedures.
Rub your feet on a washboard, placing emphasis on your heels - as if you are washing your feet. The session should last at least 15 minutes. Be warned: your feet will burn. Do this 2 times a day until the spurs disappear. After three days the pain will subside.
Steam your feet, then hit the sore spot with an aspen log. First 5-10 times, then increase the number of strikes to 100.
Fill a three-liter saucepan with small potatoes along with peelings, cook until tender, transfer to a basin and knead it all with your feet until it cools down. Wipe your feet, apply iodine in the form of a mesh to the soles and put on socks. The course of treatment is 7 procedures. If you salt the potatoes thoroughly when cooking, the effect of this folk remedy will increase many times over.
By the way, you can read about the treatment of heel spurs with iodine in our separate article.
In addition to proven folk remedies, various therapeutic exercises can also provide feasible assistance in the treatment of heel spurs.
Before starting gymnastics, we recommend that you first stretch the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles.
Approach the wall at a distance of 35 cm and rest your palms against it. The healthy leg should be placed forward, and the sick leg should be left behind. Having taken this position, begin to squat - it is important that your heels do not leave the floor. After you feel the tension in the back of the muscles of the sore leg, freeze in this position for 15 seconds and then straighten up.
It is recommended to carry out this exercise 15 times.
Perhaps the easiest exercise. For this you will need an orthopedic ball or, failing that, a bottle of water. Place your foot on the apparatus and simply roll it along the arch of your foot.
In this exercise you don't even have to stand. While in a sitting position, try to grab various small objects previously scattered on the floor with your toes: pencils, spoons, peas, pebbles. Once the item is hooked, drag it into a pre-prepared container. And so on until there is nothing left on the floor.
Don’t worry, you won’t have to step on hot coals like yogis - you can limit yourself to small pebbles, peas or beans.
In addition, it will be useful to try to spring on your toes when climbing stairs, rather than lowering your entire foot.
The diet for heel spurs involves, first of all, drinking plenty of fluids - up to 2.5-3 liters per day. In addition to regular water, you can take green tea, mineral water or rosehip decoction. Cucumbers and watermelons are also useful for maintaining fluid balance in the body.
Lean on porridges, vegetable or cereal soups, egg dishes, fruits (apples, peaches, oranges, pears, apricots, plums) and vegetables (carrots, cabbage, zucchini, potatoes, tomatoes).
Dairy products can be consumed in any quantity as they help eliminate purine bases from the body. It is especially recommended to take whey and sour milk.
Fish and meat should be eaten twice a week, but only boiled and stewed.
But you should forget about these products while fighting the disease:
You will also have to say goodbye to smoked, salted and spicy foods.
I encountered this problem about a year ago. At first it was not comfortable to walk, then a slight pain began and further and further. One day, while talking with a nurse friend, he complained about his problem. She told me a very effective method - to hit the floor with your heel several times a day and roll the rolling pin with your heel. The pain is certainly unbearable, but for five days I followed her advice. And indeed, it helped me, I don’t face this problem anymore. Another way is vinegar essence and an egg. Break the egg into a small jar and add vinegar essence. Shake it all until you get a porridge-like mixture. We put it in the refrigerator to harden. Apply a thick layer to the heel at night, put on a plastic bag and a warm sock, maybe a woolen one. In the morning, wash off with warm water and soap.
I began to treat, on the advice of an old neighbor, with an ointment made from a chicken egg, natural butter and table vinegar. Melt the butter in a glass. In the required proportions, these ingredients must be poured into a jar without stirring, closed with a lid and wrapped in a towel. After three days of infusion, apply the ointment to gauze and apply to the sore spot. Fix by putting on a sock. Over time, the skin on the spur peels off and the heels begin to heal. Several procedures are enough until complete recovery. As a result of using the folk remedy, the spur disappears, and in its place, renewed skin grows on the legs. The treatment is simple and inexpensive. But it’s better to look after your health and never get sick!
One time my heel hurt so bad that I couldn’t walk. At work I walk with a limp, and one woman says to me, try to cure it this way, it helped me. And she told me how it was done. You pick up snow in the basin, put your heel on it and hold it as long as you can stand it. Then you take it out, quickly dry it and put on woolen socks. You can also wrap your leg with something wool. The leg will burn. Wait about half an hour. Can be unwound. Once was enough for me. And I haven’t remembered this incident for 7 years now. I will be glad if this helps someone.
That's all. We hope that the recipes and recommendations outlined above will help you overcome heel spurs and forget about them forever.
Many doctors attribute heel spurs not to independent diseases, but rather to the consequences of certain disorders in the patient’s body that affect the condition of the joints.
The degree to which spurs appear on the heels is in no way related to the size of the spike; for example, fairly large spurs may not be detected for a long time, while small spurs, on the contrary, cause a lot of problems.
Let's look at all the possible options for how to treat and remove spurs from the heels of the feet, as well as the causes of this defect.
The reasons for the development of spurs on the heels of the feet are necessary both for the treatment process and in order to understand how prevention can be carried out and prevent the development of this anomaly.
The disease can be easily treated at home, even in the initial stages of development; however, the longer you ignore the symptoms, the harder it will be to treat the problem.
In principle, all symptoms can be divided into three types, and it (the spur) can be detected quite early:
It is also necessary to clarify that pain occurs as a response to the inflammatory process started by the thorn, and not to an anatomical change in the heels.
As we said above, before you start treating a spur, you need to know the cause of its occurrence.
At the same time, the doctor determines the severity of the problem. There is no universal method or remedy for completely eliminating heel spurs, and therefore treatment is aimed at eliminating the symptoms and causes of its occurrence.
In principle, all methods can be divided into 4 types:
In parallel with treatment, additional measures can be used, for example, wearing exclusively orthopedic shoes, or using special insoles.
Such recommendations can significantly reduce the load on the heels and on the entire surface of the foot, and if there are spikes on the toes, then significant relief will come.
We will not ignore the proposals of traditional medicine, but it is worth separately recalling that recipes for alternative therapy can be used exclusively after consultation with a doctor, and only as additional means, but not as primary ones.
It’s definitely worth talking about a new method of treating heel spurs – shock wave therapy. It is quite difficult to fully describe, since the results so far remain ambiguous.
Treatment here occurs through the influence of special ultrasound pulses. Since the method involves a shock wave effect, the calcium deposits that form the basis of the heel spike begin to lose their hardness, are loosened and washed away.
Thus, the heel ligaments are released from the thorn, which caused pain and discomfort.
Each procedure results in a reduction in pain, and by the end of treatment there should be no pain at all.
The method has proven itself on the positive side at the initial stage of development of the heel spike. If the problem is neglected, then the method only stops further deposition of calcium salts, but is no longer capable of destroying the thorn.
In addition, it is necessary to note the contraindications of the method:
In this case we are talking about the treatment of feet with x-ray radiation. This method involves the impact of a beam on nerve endings.
They are blocked, as a result of which the patient stops feeling pain and it is completely relieved.
For complete relief from pain, a course of 10 radiation sessions, 10 minutes each, is recommended.
The main advantages of the method include:
Unfortunately, the foot spur does not disappear, there is simply a complete elimination of pain, and this must be remembered when choosing this type of treatment.
That is why it is so important, after completing the course, to take care of removing the load from your feet, and for this you will need orthopedic shoes or insoles.
A fairly popular method is low-intensity laser therapy for foot spines. The impact here will be on the soft tissues that surround the spur.
Thanks to the effect, increased blood circulation will begin, which will lead to a decrease in inflammation, and as a result, to a decrease in pain.
Unfortunately, this method also only affects the elimination of symptoms, that is, pain, but the spur itself is not removed.
Several drugs are used as basic medications:
If drug treatment does not have a positive effect, doctors resort to blockade. This is a very painful procedure, but no less interesting.
The heel is injected with special blocking drugs, and the doctor must accurately calculate the dosage, depth and frequency of the injections.
With a successful blockade, the pain completely goes away for at least several years.
If the process is incorrect, the blockade can cause complications and suppuration of the calf muscle.
Unfortunately, even if the blockade is successfully performed, it cannot be performed frequently, since in this case the destruction of the fascia and ligament of the joint begins.
Another direction in drug treatment may be treatment with medical bile.
It is important that you can use bile at home, which makes the whole process easier, and the bile itself can be bought at any pharmacy.
The lotion principle is used, the recipe is as follows:
It is best to carry out this procedure at night so that the lotion remains on the heels all night. In the morning, the bandage is removed and the area is treated with boric alcohol.
Judging by the reviews of the method, it is necessary to use a lotion on medical bile at home for at least 20 days in a row.
On the one hand, this is a disastrous way to cure a heel spur, on the other hand, such an operation is a rather complex process, and they resort to it only if other methods are ineffective and there is incessant pain in the heels.
The operation, if successful, leads to complete elimination of pain.
At the same time, how to treat a spur, it is also necessary to prevent the problem, and this, first of all, is proper nutrition.
Here we are talking about a diet that will gradually reduce weight, and accordingly, the load on the joints and heels.
In addition, the diet should consist of foods that will help remove salts from the body, enhance anti-inflammatory processes and metabolism.
Before treating spurs at home, for example, you need to understand that the basis of nutrition will be a large consumption of water, at least three liters per day. Such an amount automatically raises the question of kidney function, so if the patient has kidney problems, drinking plenty of fluids will not suit him.
From a prevention point of view, at home you can:
Hello, dear friends!
I want to share with you information on how to cure a heel spur. Finally, I got rid of it and now I can say with confidence how to cure a heel spur at home.
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I already told you that about three years ago I developed a heel spur. I didn’t know then that it was a spur. But it became painful to step on the heel in the morning after sleep. Then I disperse, and the pain goes away. Pain also occurred during long walks; it was an indescribable torment.
I tried to treat the spur first with different ointments, and then with aluminum foil. The foil actually helped me, the problem went away.
But everything came back two years later.
Now I already knew that the last time I had a heel spur was due to wearing my favorite clogs - shoes without fixing the heel. I had to give up my clogs. I began to wear what I thought were the correct shoes and did not understand the reason for the formation of heel pain again.
I studied a lot of information on how to cure heel spurs.
I learned that to treat her it is necessary to take an integrated approach. Therefore, I did exercises, massage, and was treated with a Vitaphone, and tried various folk remedies.
I understood that the treatment was long-term, and it was almost impossible to quickly get rid of a spur at home using folk remedies, but I did not see any result, even a little relief, after long-term use of all these treatment methods.
And suddenly, like in a fairy tale, one day in an instant I felt that there was no more pain in my heel! Neither in the mornings, nor during exercise.
Do you think there was no miracle? Did my comprehensive treatment work?
The treatment certainly helped a lot. But the main thing is that I eliminated the cause of the formation of heel spurs. All spring and summer I wore low platform shoes. And when in the fall I switched to shoes with small heels, that’s when the problem was solved. I didn’t understand this for a very long time, until I heard from Elena Malysheva from her wonderful program that platform shoes also contribute to the formation of spurs.
So, to cure a heel spur, you need:
Doctors can better explain and clearly show how a spur occurs and what it is.
I will briefly summarize that flat feet, excess weight, and incorrect shoes lead to a manifold increase in the load on the heel tubercle. And this, in turn, leads to inflammation on the sole, which is popularly called a heel spur.
It is not entirely correct to think that a spur is some kind of bone formation, a growth in the heel. It can form, but only several years after the inflammation appears, if the latter is not treated.
In 80% of cases, the disease occurs in women. How often do we wear uncomfortable and incorrect shoes, and this is the result.
So what is the wrong shoe?
This happens because in such shoes there is no bend in the sole, and the foot takes the wrong position. In general, I think that flip-flops are intended primarily for the beach or bathhouse. And walking in them on the street all day long, to work, is not even aesthetically pleasing.
The ideal option is shoes with low heels (2-4-6 cm). In sandals, the heel must be secured with a strap.
Incorrectly chosen tight shoes can also lead to the formation of toenail fungus (if this suddenly happens, do not start treatment, nail fungus can be successfully cured with folk remedies), as well as to cracked heels.
In addition, dry skin , which often occurs especially in summer, has an adverse effect on the legs and the possible formation of spurs. So don't forget to take care of your feet regularly.
If there is inflammation, your doctor will prescribe you nonsteroidal medications that will relieve some of the pain. But this is not enough. To cure a spur at home, as I already said, treatment must be comprehensive. In addition to various ointments and rubs, you should definitely perform exercises to stretch your feet and do a foot massage.
I will not rewrite everything that is on the Internet. I’ll tell you about the exercises that I chose for myself and did, and continue to do now. Because curing a disease is not enough, you always need to do prevention.
By bending and straightening the leg at the knee, we stretch the muscles of the foot.
Vitafon device is very effective in treating heel spurs at home .
I installed one disc on the heel area and the other on the shin area. First I switched to mode 2, and after five minutes to mode 4.
Every day I increased the time in both modes by a minute to 20 minutes in the end.
Treatment was carried out 2 times a day for a month.
To quickly cure a heel spur, in literally five minutes, you need to go to the clinic. Now there is a more modern method - shock wave therapy. But, probably, this is not yet available to everyone. I don't know if all cities have this.
When treating a spur, you must also massage the foot . For this I used special massage rollers, which, by influencing reflex points, help get rid of many other diseases and are an excellent preventative method for health in general.
There are many folk remedies for treating spurs. It’s all individual, one thing helps some, another helps others. Again, I’ll tell you about those folk remedies that I used myself and which, I think, helped me a lot.
Aluminum food foil
Treatment of spurs with foil has been known since ancient times. Back then, people collected Indian tea wrappers and were treated very successfully. Nowadays such tea is difficult to find, but you can do without it. You just need to use several layers of foil with paper sandwiched between them. Apply this “cabbage” to the heel and put on the sock.
My mother told me about this method. Once upon a time she had a spur, which was cured in this way. I no longer remember where the recipe came from, apparently it was passed on by word of mouth.
You need to take equal amounts of a bottle of camphor oil, camphor alcohol, ammonia and turpentine. Mix everything and pour into a glass jar with a lid. You should get a white cloudy mixture.
Steam your feet; the original recipe suggested doing this over a hot red brick. While holding your foot over the brick, you need to cover it with something so that the heat does not evaporate quickly.
Rub the steamed heel with the prepared mixture, put on warm socks. This procedure should be performed at night. The main thing is to do it regularly. When the whole mixture is gone, you will forget about your spur.
I forgot about the spur much earlier than the mixture ran out, when I eliminated the cause: I changed my shoes.
To treat spurs, you can also use simple table salt . Read about it here >>. And also a tincture of potato sprouts.
Of course, getting rid of flat feet or excess weight is more difficult than changing shoes. But if we want, everything is possible, everything is in our hands.
In conclusion, I would like to wish everyone to lead a healthy lifestyle and be sure to wear the right shoes, then you will not have to look for material on how to cure heel spurs.
A huge number of people face the problem of heel spurs. It does not affect health in any way, but it causes a lot of unpleasant sensations and discomfort, and also spoils the visual appearance of the foot. What is this disease?
A spur is a specific formation on the foot similar to a thorn, caused by bone overgrowth, which leads to discomfort and pain when walking.
The main cause is considered to be an inflammatory process or rupture of the joint ligament in the foot, which receives maximum pressure from a person’s weight when walking, but there are a number of other factors that can influence the appearance and development of the disease:
People of absolutely any age are susceptible to the disease, but mostly women over 40 years of age, especially those who are overweight, and whose work requires them to spend more than eight hours a day in a standing position, as well as older people due to age-related changes.
There are several approaches to treating this problem, the first thing you should do is contact an orthopedic doctor, and he will select an individual treatment method, and, if necessary, refer you for additional consultation to a rheumatologist, endocrinologist, osteopath, or nutritionist:
Medicine does not stand still, it pleases us with its achievements and development every day, thereby offering us a rather large selection of means to treat the problem we are talking about today, as a rule, these are external forms of medication. Medicines can be purchased at almost every pharmacy at an affordable price.
Aimed at relieving pain and removing inflammation from the lesion for a short period of 3-12 hours. They are used in the form of ointments and gels, the most popular of them: Voltaren, Ibuprofen, Piroxicam, Diclofenac, Ketorol, Indomethacin ointment, Butadione.
As a rule, ointments are applied at night, just before going to bed; after waking up, and about half an hour before you put on your shoes, as well as during the day as necessary.
It reduces inflammation, relieves pain, activates metabolic processes, and also serves as an excellent prevention against infection.
Dilute one part of the solution with five parts of boiled, cooled water, soak a bandage or gauze cloth into the liquid and apply it to the affected area of the foot, cover with parchment paper, and then wrap with three to four layers of plastic film or bag, put on a wool sock on top or wrap your foot warm blanket. Keep the compress for about half an hour, 7-10 days in a row.
Dip a sterile napkin in bile and apply it to the spur according to the scheme described in the previous method, but leave it overnight. The course can range from 10 days to two months with daily use.
All creams can relieve pain and discomfort, as well as improve microcirculation. They can have an effect only in non-advanced stages of the disease. The course is from two weeks to a month.
It has anti-inflammatory and warming effects, which improves blood supply; the essential oils in the composition provide the product with an antibacterial effect.
Contains many oils and extracts, alcohols and urea. After application, the foot should be wrapped and rested for one hour.
It is able to relieve tension from the legs after a hard day, increases blood flow, relieves pain, and also improves overall mobility of the foot.
Based on plants, they relieve swelling, pain, and normalize blood circulation. It is applied to clean, dry, untreated skin for a period of one to three days, then a break is taken for up to one week, in total you need to make 10-18 applications.
Novocaine blockade is used throughout the area affected by the spur, to eliminate the localization of pain, no more than twice a day during an exacerbation or in advanced stages.
Glucocorticosteroids – Kenalog, Diprospan, Flosteron
Reduce pain and relieve inflammation. The drug is injected into the most acute painful part on the heel up to three times in 24 hours.
There are many methods that can reduce the pain threshold and relieve inflammation; such treatment can be either alone or in conjunction with drug therapy.
For one liter of very hot water, dilute about 150 grams of salt, preferably coarse sea salt. The duration of soaking the legs in the solution is 30 minutes, constantly adding boiling water. The procedure is best done before going to bed, after finishing it, put on warm socks and sleep in them all night.
Rub a small bar of soap, then melt it over a fire and apply it warm to the sore area, wrap it with film and insulate the leg, leaving the product overnight, rinse well in the morning. Do it daily for two to three months.
Grate a small head of garlic on a fine grater or squeeze through a garlic press, mix with a teaspoon of refined sunflower oil and rub well into the place where the spur has formed, secure well with a bandage and plaster and leave for three to four hours, interrupt the procedure only if if there is an intolerable burning sensation, repeat once a day until the pain disappears.
First, steam your feet well in water and soda, then apply a small piece of kombucha or just a tampon soaked in it to the problem part, after a couple of hours the mushroom or tampon will become dry and should be replaced with fresh ones. At the same time, wrap your leg in a bag and create a state of calm as much as possible.
The method works only at the beginning stage of development. Place a thin slice of freshly peeled potato on the heel and wrap it with an elastic bandage or put on a very tight sock, leave for 40-60 minutes, repeat up to 5 times a week.
100 grams of fresh, unsalted pork lard or lard should be poured with 100 milliliters of vinegar, one large egg along with the shell should be broken into this mixture, ground well, cover with a lid and leave for three weeks in a place protected from light and sun, no more than once a week stir the paste.
The resulting mixture should be applied to a sterile bandage, with a thin ball on a well-steamed, soft heel for 1.5-2 hours, wrapped in cellophane and wrapped tightly. At the end of the procedure, rinse the area where the bandage was well with water. Repeat three to five days in a row.
You will need exactly black radish, you need to finely grate it and apply the resulting pulp along with the juice to the spur, wrap your leg in the same way as described above, but do not squeeze it too tightly, so as not to provoke swelling, and go to bed with such a design. In the morning, rinse your foot well under warm water. A course of three to seven procedures.
Make a dough from honey and flour in a ratio of 1:2, roll it out thinly and put it on the heel, place a cotton pad or a piece of bandage on top and put on a thick sock, preferably made of cotton fabric, leave for 5-6 hours, do it every day until relief.
The benefits and results will be the same if, after using any of the folk methods, you apply an iodine mesh to your heel, it will have a warming and antibacterial effect, which will only contribute to a speedy recovery.
The recipe is effective for severe pain. Wash the potatoes well and without peeling them, grate them on the smallest part of a grater, put the potato on a piece of bandage and wrap it in a bag for a day, and on top with an elastic bandage. Change every 24 hours for seven to eight days.
Mix 500 ml of fresh, strained juice of five-year-old aloe with half a liter of pure alcohol, pour in 125 ml of valerian tincture, add 10 tablets of Analgin and Aspirin, ground into powder, and add a few teaspoons with a mountain of red pepper (ground). Place the mixture in a glass container, shake well, close tightly and place in a dry, dark place for 14 days. Make compresses from the finished tincture daily (as described above) for no longer than 3 hours for a course of up to 2 months. The compress perfectly warms the sore spot, relieves pain and relieves redness.
10 milliliters of iodine 3%, mix with powder from two aspirin tablets, apply the porridge on cotton wool and on the problem part, wrap, wrap overnight, repeat once every 7 days, 3 repetitions in total.
Grind the fresh nettle leaf with a meat grinder, transfer the resulting mixture to a small burdock leaf and apply a compress, securing it with bandages while you sleep at night; if the pain does not subside in the morning, apply a fresh compress again for the whole day.
For two weeks, at night on well-washed, clean heels, apply a thick ball of turpentine (you can buy it at any pharmacy), wait until it is absorbed a little and put on wool socks, in the morning, rinse off the remaining compress with running, cool water.
Spread a very thick layer of liquid honey on a cabbage leaf and secure it to the entire heel with a bag and a sock overnight, rinse off in the morning, repeat three procedures.
Massage for spurs provides improved nutrition for the ligaments and muscles of the ankle, increases blood flow, which allows you to enrich the foot with oxygen, and also strengthens its muscles and relieves swelling and heaviness in the legs.
There are several types of massage for this problem, but we will talk about the massage itself, which you can easily perform at home.
The heel is completely covered by the phalanges of the fingers and the heel tubercle is pinched, from bottom to top and in the opposite direction. In this case, one finger (thumb) is on one side of the heel, and the other four are on the other, we do several pinching on one side, then on the opposite side.
The heel should be covered with four fingertips on one side, and one on the other, with circular movements, we massage, alternating sides, selecting the degree and force of pressure individually depending on the intensity of the pain.
We press the first phalanges to the palm, and with the second phalanges of the 4 fingers, massage the heel in a circle, paying special attention to the hardest part of the foot.
Using the phalanges of the thumbs from both hands, we alternately rub the right and left sides of the heel, movements are made from the bottom of the heel, gradually increasing the pressure towards its top.
We grab the heel with our hand or both hands and press on it, as if we are trying to move it from its place, moving it in different directions, toward us and away from us.
Before starting the massage, you should steam your feet in hot water, each massage movement should be done for 3-5 minutes, as a rule, the general course of such a massage consists of 10 sessions, after a two-month break you can do another 10 if necessary.
The desired effect can be obtained without medication or surgery; the main thing is not to start the process of spur growth, but to begin treatment without fail as soon as you feel a slight tingling sensation and a slight lump in the heel area.