If you were once bothered by hellish pain in your heel when walking, it was impossible to step on it and move, then you probably remember the sensations of what excruciating suffering it was. Anything goes, even strong painkillers don’t help. The pain continues even in the absence of movement. The cause of the pain is the stage of exacerbation of the heel spur, and this condition is not the basis of the disease, but appears as a result of longitudinal flatfoot. You have to forget about an active lifestyle at this time. How to treat heel spurs and prevent this disease? We'll talk about this today.
Spurs are characterized by bone growths that appear on the heel bone. These growths have a medical name - exostosis. They often appear at the site of fixation of the plantar ligament, not so often at the site of attachment of the calcaneal tendon (posterior and anterior spur). In advanced forms of the disease, swelling and edema appear, and ulcers form around the cracks. The factors causing exostoses can be different.
The main causes:
The tendon tissue at the point of its attachment to the bone loses its elasticity, invisible cracks appear, which become inflamed, causing pain. And any disease only gets worse over time. At the site of injured tissue, scars appear in which calcium compounds accumulate. The sore spot ossifies, turning into bone growth, these are spurs. Sometimes such growths can have an infectious beginning, due to past illnesses - sore throat, rheumatism, flu.
Heel spurs often appear in athletes and are associated with heavy physical activity and foot injuries. They are at risk and are advised to wear special shoes that support the arches of their feet. Heel spurs are often diagnosed in people in adulthood. The reasons for the appearance at this age are gout, osteoporosis, microcracks at the site of attachment of the ligament to the bone, and flat feet. In children, spurs are observed in rare cases.
Almost all patients seek medical care when the disease process has already developed. The classic complaint is heel pain. A characteristic symptom is increased pain when flexing the foot. As a rule, heel spurs are recognized using x-ray diagnostics.
Flat feet are one of the main causes of heel spurs. It is necessary to take measures to correct it and prevent heel spurs:
Particular attention must be paid to shoes - high-quality, correct, it implies the presence of a heel no more than 5 cm, the load on the feet should be distributed evenly. Constantly wearing high-heeled shoes is prohibited! In addition, to prevent exacerbations of the disease, it is necessary to reduce excess weight. If a heel spur appears as a result of any disease, treatment with medications should begin with the concomitant disease.
First of all, you need to get an appointment with a doctor so that the specialist can make an accurate diagnosis of what this is a heel spur and how to treat it with medication. Complex therapy includes tablets and ointments that will help relieve inflammation and pain, if it is impossible to tolerate and you have to walk a lot, an injection of botulinum toxin is given in the area of the tendon tissue, after a few minutes the painful sensation goes away, discomfort when walking is relieved.
As an addition, doctors recommend buying special arch supports that are inserted into shoes so that when resting on the sore foot, there is no contact with anything in that area.
In the acute stage, you need rest, cool lotions, and medical bile for heel spurs at night, in the form of a warm compress. Treatment of heel spurs with medical bile is carried out as follows:
Place the foot with the sore heel in hot water, steam it for 20 minutes, then wipe it dry, apply cotton wool soaked in bile, fix it with a bandage, wrap it in plastic on top, and put on a warm sock. The leg is left in this condition overnight. The procedure is performed every day, at night, until the symptoms of pain disappear.
One of the most effective is considered a patch for the treatment of heel spurs, consisting of medicinal herbs and active ingredients. These substances can relieve pain and inflammation. The patch is fixed on the clean and dry surface of the sore foot for a day, then it must be replaced with a new one. The duration of treatment is 10 -15 days. The doctor may also prescribe electrophoresis with medication (hydrocortisone, novocaine), as a method, X-ray therapy is used for heel spurs.
An effective result in the treatment of heel spurs can be achieved using the drug dimexide; its main purpose is to treat inflammatory processes. The features of its influence are aimed at obtaining the following results:
What you need to pay attention to! Follow the dosage indicated in the instructions. If handled carelessly, an allergy may occur, which manifests itself in the form of dryness, peeling and rashes on the skin.
Pharmacies offer two forms of the drug - liquid and dimexide gel. It is not always possible to buy a gel, but using liquid, the patient can apply a compress to a heel spur with dimexide.
The liquid solution produced is a very saturated preparation; use in its pure form is prohibited. As practice shows, almost all patients do not know how to properly dilute the liquid, but it is prepared as follows:
The described proportions will not harm health, they are harmless, relief comes. The patient can combine the prepared solution with other, additional therapeutic agents to improve the effectiveness of drug treatment.
Treatment of heel spurs with dimexide is an obvious, quick and effective chance to solve the problem. In order for the desired effect to be achieved, you need to understand the specificity of the correct use of the drug and what it is combined with.
The ointment is applied a couple of times a day to the affected area of the heel bone. The solution of the drug does not have the best smell, but it evaporates quickly and is used as a compress or for rinsing. It is used as a compress on its own or combined with dimexide with diphenhydramine, analgin, novocaine, this increases the possibility of getting rid of pain.
The compress is applied correctly like this:
Be careful! Do not leave a compress with dimexide on the body for more than 40 minutes, it causes severe burns, the best exposure time is 30 minutes.
When a patient uses dimexide in addition to vodka and bile to treat heel spurs, the positive effect appears almost immediately. The healing composition is prepared according to the following recipe:
The solution is designed for external use; compresses can be made from it. For a better effective result, dimexide can be combined with diclofenac.
No one has yet canceled consultations with a doctor; read the contraindications and possible side effects before starting treatment for spurs with dimexide.
It is important! The drug is prescribed to pregnant women and small children only by a doctor. Independent use is not allowed anyway, and for such groups of people there is a high probability of complications, and the results can be unpredictable.
The instructions for using the drug for heel spurs list which categories of people are prohibited from using the drug:
In other cases, it is possible to use dimexide for heel fasciitis. The doctor, having studied the person’s condition in detail, will suggest a specific treatment with this remedy.
Side, negative manifestations occur with illiterate, frequent use of the drug, increasing the dosage, neglecting the rules for handling the drug, they consist in the following:
At one time, I myself suffered from terrible pain for a long time and could not step. People suggested recipes, many of them were tried on themselves. Here is a selection of prescriptions that will definitely alleviate the painful condition, and the healing effect will be much stronger if taken in combination with baths and applications. Treatment for heel spurs at home takes a long time, so you shouldn’t expect instant relief right away. Let's look at how to treat heel spurs using independent methods.
And I also want to share some advice, if you have tried medication treatment and nothing helps, use this recipe, it is prepared like this:
Take chicken yolk (preferably from poultry), add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of any natural honey, grind thoroughly. Place the mixture in a jar and put it in the refrigerator (not the freezer!). In the evening, steam your feet, wipe them dry, apply a compress to your heels, and wrap your feet in warmth until the morning. Wash your feet in the morning with warm water. Continue this procedure until the product runs out. The ointment for the treatment of heel spurs is applied slightly warmed up so that the feet do not feel cold.
And also a universal remedy for spurs.
At home, you can massage your heels with a roller foot massager; it helps break up bone growths. If you don’t have one, use a simple device - a bead with a diameter of one cm, put it in a plastic lid, cover it with a cloth, and actively roll the bead with your heel. Tried - it helps!
Before deciding how to treat heel spurs with folk remedies, visit a doctor for a diagnosis and treatment. Our desire to cope with the disease on our own does not always have a good result! After consulting with a doctor, you can choose any of these remedies for treatment; they are all very effective. The results will be on your heels.
A heel spur is a pin-shaped bony growth on the sole of the foot that causes severe pain when walking. The heel bone is attached to muscles and tendons, which can become injured under excessive loads; cracks and tears appear on them. We usually don’t think about how to treat microtraumas; they heal themselves and do not cause discomfort. But, if such damage becomes systematic, then the tissues do not have time to recover and become increasingly inflamed. A compaction forms at the damaged area, potassium and hard metal salts accumulate here. Over time, the formed tubercle - a heel spur - becomes harder, causing discomfort and severe pain when walking.
Before you find out how to treat a heel spur at home or by going to a medical facility, let’s figure out what can cause such a pathology and perhaps it’s not too late to stop the process and not start the formation of a compaction.
Rare cases of heel spurs have also been recorded after suffering from influenza, gout, gonorrheal infection and other diseases.
As for the symptoms, the main and, perhaps, the only one is a sharp and severe pain when walking or other stress on the heel. As patients say, this kind of pain is like stepping on a sharp object. The initial stage is characterized by pain only when putting pressure on the heel; in more advanced cases, the pain is constant.
It is impossible to detect a heel spur at home; an x-ray is necessary for diagnosis.
How does modern medicine suggest to treat heel spurs? Today, specialists are very successful in helping to get rid of pathology. Doctors are developing a whole range of treatments, this could be:
However, in advanced stages, if all measures have been taken and the pain does not decrease, rather complex surgical treatment is recommended.
How to treat heel spurs at home so that the treatment is effective and time is not wasted? First of all, it is necessary to take a comprehensive approach to treating the disease. To do this, we conditionally divide the treatment into several categories:
To treat heel spurs, we suggest trying the following method. Heat five liters of water, dilute one kilogram of salt in it and steam your feet in a basin of hot water until the water becomes cool. This course is done for 10 days. Many argue that by the fifth day, the spur disappears, the pain goes away, but the course should be completed. You don’t have to pour out the water, but leave it for the next day (just don’t forget to heat it up). Instead of water with salt, you can use whey.
Warming up can also be done using alcohol, which must be slightly heated (be careful that it does not catch fire), then dip the soles into it and hold for 15 minutes. After the procedure, the alcohol should be absorbed into the skin on its own.
If for some reason you cannot do a compress during the day, be sure to remember about it in the evening and do it throughout the night.
We offer some procedures for getting rid of heel spurs that can be done around the clock:
Traditional methods help at home to get rid of the pain that occurs with heel spurs. Some patients claim that such treatment helps to completely forget about the acquired pathology. But we still insist that treatment at home, although it brings good results, still combine it with official medicine and constantly consult with a specialized doctor for a complete recovery.
We told you how to treat heel spurs at home; choose the most convenient methods for yourself, combine them and start treatment immediately.
Girls, have you had problems with heel spurs?
Hello, dear friends! Many people who use folk remedies to treat heel spurs get very good results.
Doctors and healers of ancient times knew how to cure heel spurs at home. There were no chemical drugs or therapeutic devices then. Traditional methods of treatment have survived to this day in the form of ointments, lotions, and baths. They have not lost their relevance even now and many people successfully use them to relieve pain and treat spurs.
There is only one condition for the effectiveness of traditional methods to be high. Treatment must be comprehensive. It involves using these fairly simple methods:
Take 1 kg of pharmaceutical sea salt, dissolve in 5 liters of hot water. Then pour into a bowl. Immerse your feet in the hottest possible water and keep them until they cool completely.
The solution can be reused. Your feet will steam, microelements from sea water will be absorbed through the skin, and the elasticity of the ligamentous apparatus of the foot will increase. It is best to do the procedure before going to bed and finish with your chosen folk ointments, lotions, and rubs. The number of procedures depends on the severity of the pain syndrome.
Typically, such warm-ups are carried out in clinics, but they can be successfully done at home. Fortunately, now both paraffin and ozokerite can be easily purchased in online pharmacies. There are various packages available by weight, with and without fragrances. Buy only pure substances. Without any additional additives or flavorings. By weight! You need to buy a kilogram of paraffin and ozokerite. The price of ozokerite is approximately 250 rubles per 1 kg.
By the way, what is ozokerite? It has another name - “Mountain wax”. This substance is found near oil fields. It even smells a little like oil. Rich in minerals, has high heat capacity and low thermal conductivity. Therefore, when heated, it retains heat for a very long time and warms up the internal tissues well.
I used paraffin-ozokerite applications when my back hurt. I bought 1 kg of paraffin and 1 kg of ozokerite at the pharmacy. I put the pieces in an old aluminum pan, which I placed in a water bath. When heated, the solid pieces began to melt until a liquid was formed.
I prepared in advance a metal cuvette measuring approximately 30 by 40 cm with low sides. I put a medical oilcloth there and poured all the liquid. The thickness of the layer should be at least 2 - 3 cm. Now the paraffin with ozokerite begins to harden and the temperature drops.
A frozen mass appears on the surface. But inside, if you poke your finger on it, there is a very hot liquid. You need to wait until it hardens to its full depth. You can use a thermometer, but I determined it by eye. When the mass hardens, its temperature should be 39 - 40 degrees, no more and no less. Children - different temperature parameters!
Wash your feet, dry them with a dry towel and place the sore foot on a previously prepared “sandwich”. The bottom layer is a warm, cotton or wool blanket, on it is a piece of polyethylene (1 meter * 1 meter), on it is a piece of linen fabric of the same size. Above is your prepared ozokerite layer.
Place your foot on it and quickly wrap it in this layer. Then wrap it in polyethylene, reinforce it with cloth and cover it with a blanket. Note the time. The procedure should last 25 - 30 minutes. If everything is done correctly, then when you open your leg, you will see that the skin is flushed with large drops of sweat.
The course consists of 10 - 20 procedures daily or every other day with repeated use of the same paraffin and ozokerite.
These are independent procedures. No other ointments or rubs are required after ozokerite. Put on warm wool socks and go to bed.
Buy a bottle of bile at the pharmacy. Apply a compress at night. It’s better, of course, to steam your feet first. After this, take a soft linen cloth, maybe gauze. Fold in 3 layers and soak thoroughly with bile. Place the fabric on the heel. Wrap with polyethylene, secure with a bandage and put on a wool sock. In the morning, remove the bandage, wipe your heel with alcohol, put on shoes with heel support and walk like this all day. Don't forget to massage and exercise your feet.
How long to be treated with medical bile? As much as needed. First, until the pain goes away! Secondly, you must understand that thickening and inflammation of the fascia will not resolve quickly. Moreover, if there is already a decent deposit of salts there. So feel free to get treatment within a month. Then stop treatment with bile. Continue to do preventive massage and physical exercise for several months.
You must also understand that the cause of the heel spur for you personally was some general disease: excess weight, transverse or longitudinal flat feet and other reasons. Read about them here. Therefore, add treatment to the underlying disease and then you can hope for a complete recovery.
Take rye flour (100 g) and mix with 20 ml of pharmaceutical turpentine. I do these things by eye, so maybe more turpentine is needed. The main thing is that you should get a fairly dense flour tortilla. Place it on the heel area, wrap it in polyethylene, secure it with a bandage and put on a wool sock. Leave the cake to sit overnight. Do at least 15 procedures per course, with a month break. Then repeat the course of turpentine cakes.
Pour iodine into a small bowl. Sit on a chair, place a bowl on the floor. Dip the sore heel in iodine and hold for a few minutes. Iodine should thoroughly saturate the skin in the heel area. Then apply a gauze bandage, strengthen it with an elastic bandage, put on a wool sock, and go to bed. Make sure that no burns appear, so repeat the procedure every three days with course No. 10
Melt 100 g of unsalted lard in a frying pan. Add vinegar essence (100 ml) and mix well. Dip a whole chicken egg into the mixture so that it is completely covered with liquid contents. Infuse this preparation for 21 days in the dark. During this time, the shell will completely dissolve. Carefully remove the egg in the film with a spoon, open it and remove the film. Stir the yolk and white and combine with vinegar essence. Stir and beat the mixture again. Place in the refrigerator, it will thicken. Lubricate the heel area with a thick layer of ointment at night. Wrap with polyethylene, warm cloth, secure with an elastic bandage. In the morning, remove the compress and wash your leg.
Bishofite belongs to natural salt complexes. It is extracted from deep rocks when drilling oil wells. The rich mineral composition of salt brine has healing properties against arthrosis, arthritis, osteochondrosis and heel spurs. This natural substance contains a lot of magnesium, iron, silicon and other trace elements. Now it is produced in the form of salt brine, ointments, creams, and pastes. How to treat with bischofite salt brine? First, warm the sore heel with a heating pad. Then rub a small amount of brine into the skin of the heel area for several minutes. At the end, apply a gauze swab soaked in iodine to the heel, cover the foot with polyethylene, strengthen it with an elastic bandage, put on a wool sock and go to bed. Repeat 10–12 such procedures. If necessary, the course can be repeated in a month.
Peel 3 large cloves of garlic. Squeeze through the garlic clove, place the resulting pulp on a piece of cotton cloth and apply to the sore heel. Fasten and hold for 3 - 4 hours, if it does not burn too much. Be careful not to burn the skin. A similar procedure can be repeated every three days until the pain disappears. It is also good to tie a cut onion to your heel overnight and repeat the procedure every three days. You can apply a paste of finely grated black radish at night.
Place lilac flowers tightly in a half-liter jar and fill with good, high-quality vodka. Leave in the dark for 10 days. Strain. Take 30 drops, diluted in water, 3 times a day. Constantly rub the heel spur area with the same tincture several times a day. The pain will gradually subside.
Burdock leaf compresses
You need to take fresh burdock leaves and apply them with the bottom of the leaf to the heel area. Change leaves three times a day. In addition to burdock, plantain leaves, fresh cabbage, and horseradish are used.
There are many more effective medicinal herbs that the authors claim help with heel spurs. You can find out about them on the Internet. If you have your own positive experience of using them, we will be happy to read your recipes in the comments to the article. And I promised to give only 10 recipes that I used myself or that I liked most when preparing this material.
How to cure a heel spur at home is a completely doable task in the initial stages of the disease. Folk remedies have been used since ancient times. Since then, medicine has come a long way. But even to this day, do-it-yourself ointments, rubs, and compresses have not lost their significance and in many cases have a very effective effect.
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A heel spur is a self-explanatory name for a rather unpleasant disease that many people experience. However, the prevailing opinion that a pointed bony outgrowth formed on the plantar surface of the heel bone (at the site of attachment of the ligamentous apparatus of the foot or the Achilles tendon to the heel bone) leads to painful discomfort when walking is not entirely true. Read our article about how to relieve heel pain and how to treat heel spurs at home.
One in 10 people experience heel pain to varying degrees, with the most common cause being plantar fasciitis, which most people call a heel spur, which is not entirely correct. Since the heel spur itself does not hurt and bone growths can be found in absolutely healthy people who do not complain of foot pain when walking. Heel spurs and pain are a consequence of plantar fasciitis. And the presence or absence of a heel spur does not affect the prognosis and treatment tactics.
The plantar fascia is a structure of the foot made of connective tissue that is attached to the phalanges of the toes on one side and to the heel bone on the other. She takes part in the formation of the longitudinal arch of the foot. So, severe pain occurs when micro-tears of the fascia in the area of its attachment to the heel bone, and the fascia becomes inflamed.
At night, during sleep, these micro-tears grow together, and shortening of the fascia occurs, and when a person takes his first steps in the morning, the fascia breaks again, bringing pain. The first steps tear the fascia, but walking gradually stretches it, so the pain subsides a little, but the pain may reappear during the day.
Constant tears in the fascia lead to non-infectious inflammation of nearby tissues, bone tissue and the fascia itself. In this case, the bone tissue begins to grow, forming so-called spurs or spines. Thus, a heel spur is an overgrowth of the plantar fascia due to injury, an inflammatory-degenerative process, accompanied by pain in the heel when walking or exertion.
Among the provocateurs of heel pain and the development of plantar fasciitis, the following diseases and conditions can be identified:
This is one of those diseases that manifests itself with quite vivid symptoms:
A heel spur should be treated only after a doctor has diagnosed the disease, since symptoms alone can indicate other problems (foot injury, fracture of the foot bones, osteoma, sprain, etc.). An experienced doctor will easily make such a diagnosis based on a person’s complaints, but will always send him for an x-ray or an ultrasound examination, in which the bone growth is clearly visualized, and the size of the inflammation is also visible.
If you have spurs on your heels, your doctor will tell you how to treat this disease. Of course, you can try folk treatment, especially since there are many effective methods (see treatment of heel spurs with folk remedies). But it is necessary to visit a doctor at least to confirm the diagnosis.
Treatment methods for heel spurs with proven effectiveness are:
So, treatment for a diagnosed heel spur begins with unloading the affected limb and eliminating pressure on the heel. This is necessary for subsequent treatment to be effective. Depending on the complexity of the situation, the following is prescribed:
How to treat heel spurs? Let's consider methods of conservative therapy.
They are used to provide anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects at the site of injury.
Diclofenac ointment, Voltaren, Ibuprofen ointment, Ketorol gel, Indomethacin ointment, Butadione, Piroxicam gel (a new generation of NSAIDs), see a complete list of all ointments for pain
Method of application: Rub into the affected area until absorbed. Frequency and duration: 3-4 times a day for 14 days.
Used for pain relief, activation of metabolism, reduction of inflammation, prevention of infection
Treatment of heel spurs with Dimexide: 1 tablespoon of the drug is diluted with boiled water 1:5 and applied to a sterile napkin. Apply as a compress to the heel, covered with wax paper and wearing a woolen sock over it, 20-30 minutes, daily, 8-10 procedures. Price 150 rub.
Treatment of heel spurs with bile: Bile (emulsion) is applied to a sterile napkin. Apply as a compress to the heel, covered with wax paper and wearing a wool sock over it. Do it at night. Daily for 10 days, treatment can be extended to 1-2 months. Price 220-250 rub.
To relieve inflammation, reduce discomfort, pain, improve microcirculation. The creams listed below should be rubbed in 3-4 times a day for 14-30 days.
Ingredients: water, glycerin, horseradish extract, volodushka, lilac, hazel, burdock, burdock, lemon, juniper oil, dimethicone, emulsion and beeswax, fatty acid alcohols, castor oil, propylene glycol, propylparaben, methylparaben, diazolidinyl urea.
The cream relieves inflammation, softens the skin, redistributing the load, warms up and improves blood circulation in the foot. Treatment of heel spurs with creams should be combined with the use of orthopedic insoles; essential oils of juniper and lemon in the cream (antibacterial effect) make the process of using insoles more comfortable.
Ingredients: water, emu oil, apple cider vinegar, propolis extract, caffeine, glycerin, urea, glyceryl stearate, mixture of tocopherols, beeswax, Dimethicone, Ceteareth, Cetearyl alcohol, Cyclomethicone, Cetyl palmitate, Polyocrylamide, etc. Gel-cream "Pyatkaspor" removes Foot tension and heel spur symptoms, improves mobility.
Price 170 rubles, reinforced 300 rubles.
The composition of the cream “Shark oil and golden mustache” includes: shark oil, plantain extract, honey, golden mustache, propolis, sea salt, cinquefoil, lilac, fir oil, eucalyptus, juniper, laurel, pepper oil, corn oil, alcohol, water , glycerin, camphor, urea, formic acid, propylene glycol, iodopropynylbutylcarbamate, etc. The cream is rubbed 1-2 times a day into the heel area, after which the sole is wrapped in warm soft material for 1 hour.
Price from 150-300 rub.
Patches for the treatment of heel spurs are plant-based, used to relieve pain, swelling and improve blood circulation, the composition includes: magnet powder, aconite root, safflower, borneol, gentian macrophylla, angelica, rich infrared powder, etc.
Application: apply a patch to clean skin (without damaging the skin) for a day (1-3 days), then take a break for 5-6 days. course of treatment is 12-16 applications. There are 8 pieces in one package, size 10x7 cm.
Two creams with the same composition “Floralizin”, which have a powerful regenerating, wound-healing, anti-inflammatory effect. This is a natural complex of biologically active compounds that enhances blood microcirculation, accelerates tissue regeneration, and is used for all skin diseases, varicose veins, joint diseases, and heel spurs. Cream Zorka was awarded the state. award - Gold and platinum quality mark of the 21st century.
Use: apply a layer of cream at night, put on socks.
The price of Zorka cream (veterinary) is about 60 rubles. The power of the forest (for humans) 500 rub.
Surgery. Removing a heel spur using an endoscope or a standard technique involves removing the bone growth, excision of part of the plantar fascia and releasing the nerve endings that are under compression.
Treatment of plantar fasciitis or spurs on the heel at home should begin with first-line treatment measures, that is, physical therapy, wearing orthoses and taping procedures.
Why should you do the exercises? Mainly to stretch the plantar fascia. With regular performance of such exercises, the fascia strengthens, becomes more elastic and its length tends to normal, this will reduce pain today and reduce the risk of its occurrence in the future.
The following set of exercises can be performed at home at any time, but in the specified sequence, they will replace unwanted types of physical activity with heel spurs - running, playing sports:
Exercise 1 - Starting position - rest your palms on the wall, legs as if standing on a rope - one after the other, the sore leg at the back, alternate legs if both hurt. Squat without lifting your heels, bend your legs at the knees until you feel a tension at the bottom of the shin of the sore leg, freeze for 15 seconds, return to the starting position. This is considered a warm-up, increasing the elasticity of the muscles and warming up the legs, repeat the exercise 10 times.
Exercise 2 - It is also a warm-up with elements of fascia stretching and is considered the most effective. It is performed on a ladder or on a raised platform (place a stack of books 5 cm high on the floor). If on the stairs, then you can lean on the railing, if against the wall, then rest your palms against the wall. You should stand on the edge of a step or books so that your heels hang below the support and begin to lean towards the wall, feeling the muscles at the bottom of your shins stretch. Freeze for 15 seconds and return to the starting position. Repeat 10 times, then you need to rest for 2-3 minutes and do the same exercise while standing on 1 leg.
Exercise 3 - Another exercise, quite effective, it can be performed only after warming up (1-2 exercises). You need to take a rolling pin, a tennis ball, a tube or a bottle up to 5 cm in diameter, place it under the foot and roll, massaging and pressing with the longitudinal arch of the foot, that is, rolling it over the entire arch of the foot. If you have severe pain, you can fill a bottle with cold water, this will relieve the pain. The exercise time is 5 minutes.
Exercise 4 - This exercise strengthens the muscles of the foot, reducing the risk of relapse, heel pain due to plantar fasciitis. One of the reasons for the development of plantar fasciitis is the heel falling inward when walking; this can be noticed if your heels wear off on the inside and the backs of your shoes are deformed in this direction. This increases tension on the fascia and the likelihood of developing tears and inflammation. Therefore, it is important to train not only the muscles of the lower leg, but also the foot. So, scatter small objects - balls, coins, pebbles, keys, and pick them up with your fingers, collect them, for example, in a jar or other container. The main thing is that the items are of different sizes and more than 30 pieces. An option for performing this exercise is to place a towel on the floor and try to fold it with your toes.
Exercise 5 - Final exercise to stretch the plantar fascia. Use your hands or a band to pull your feet towards you, trying to achieve maximum dorsiflexion of the foot, freeze in this position for 15 seconds. Repeat 10 times.
After stretching exercises and training (physical therapy) for heel spurs, it is recommended to perform taping.
What it is? Taping is the application of adhesive tape (adhesive tape) to fix ligaments, muscles, joints for the treatment of injuries or diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
With a heel spur, this is necessary to fix the spur in an elongated state and support the longitudinal water of the foot.
If possible, it is better to carry out taping with a special sports tape - tape; if this is not available, then a regular wide adhesive plaster (best from Hartmann) will do, and you will also need scissors with blunt ends to remove it, ether for treating the skin and bandages. When applying the tape, the tape should be tightened as it goes around the bottom of the foot, slightly anterior to the heel, to reduce the load on the heel.
There are several options for taping the foot with spurs on the heel (1 in the table, 2 in the figure):
It is recommended to include night braces (orthoses) in the complex treatment of heel spurs (plantar fasciitis). Above, we explained how morning pain with fasciitis is explained - repeated rupture of the fascia that has grown together with shortening overnight. This fusion with shortening occurs due to the fact that a person sleeps with the toes of the feet extended, in other words, the joints of the foot and ankle joint are in a plantar flexion position all night (especially if sleeping on the stomach).
It is clear that the tension of the fascia in this position is minimal (compressed) and fusion occurs with shortening. And if you fix your leg at an angle of 90 degrees at night, you can avoid morning pain or significantly reduce it. For this reason, it is recommended to wear night orthoses, splints, braces, and Strasbourg socks.
If it is not possible to buy such devices, then you can make them yourself - wear a long knee-high, and tie its toe with a strap to your foot, or use felt boots, since their rigidity prevents the foot from bending (stretching). At the beginning, of course, this creates inconvenience, but you can get used to everything.
Prevention of heel spurs is not only a way to prevent the disease, but also treatment of pathology at its earliest stages:
Shock wave therapy is good for heel spurs.
No. It didn't help me. Although 5 senses were made.
You can do shock wave therapy yourself, and for free. Bend your leg at the knee back and hit the floor with all your might. You can also roll a dumbbell with your foot, stepping on it with all your might with your heel.
BUT . Before this, you must first CONTINUOUSLY (I emphasize CONTINUOUSLY) make alcohol compresses on the heel for three days. Alcohol penetrates through the pores in the skin and decomposes salt deposits. Personally, I changed the alcohol compresses every 2.5-3 hours. And so on for 4 days.
On the fifth day I stood up without any pain in my heel.
I want to share my recipe. My child has a spur on his foot (he is 10 years old). We struggled with it for several months and to no avail. Doctors’ advice also did not help. I found a folk recipe somewhere: every evening before going to bed, steam your foot and use tweezers to pull out the spurs as far as possible, around the wound, the skin that comes off or becomes rough, all this must be cut off with scissors. Then prepare 50/50 regular salt and any honey, mix and apply to the wound. Next, put gauze on the wound, folded several times and rewind, put on a sock (to hold the bandage). We still sleep like that. You need to do it every day, if the form is advanced, I think you can do 2 rubles a day. It definitely won't get any worse. And the effect for us was colossal, I cured it in a week. In the first days, the wound will turn blacker even more, don’t be alarmed; the salt and honey draws the spurs to the surface. I wish everyone good health. I hope it helps you.
It was not a spur that your child had, but a thorn. This is a type of wart. Unlike a spur on the heel, it is easier to cure. And a spur is a growth on the heel bone of a thorn, similar to a rose thorn, this thorn injures nearby soft tissues and ligaments, which causes severe pain, like a nail in the heel. So it’s hard to get rid of it and not so quickly. shock wave therapy, which has been so advertised recently, does not always help......
what a nightmare your poor child is, pull it out for yourself, try it, sadist
This is a spine, not a spur.
I had such a thorn (wart) when I was a child, about 15 years old. I tried all the remedies for almost a year, everything was useless. In the summer I went to the seaside and after a while everything fell out and went away.
I have been battling plantar fasciitis for two years. There are no spurs yet, but with periodic exacerbations and inflammation along the entire foot, walking is painful and difficult. Like on coals. In the evening my legs burn. We have to agree to work remotely for a while to relieve stress and reduce inflammation.
He underwent a course of physical therapy. Ultrasound phonophoresis with hydrocartisone and magnetic therapy in winter on both legs last year and shock wave 20 sessions on the left leg this year. It was temporarily easier, but now it’s worsening again. Both treatments ultimately yielded approximately the same results.
I think that only regular exercise in stretching the fascia and fixing it at night in a stretched state for a long period can really change the situation. But exacerbation and inflammation must first be relieved.
My two doctors do not recommend an injection of Diprospan, only as a last resort. Because tissue necrosis and fascia rupture are possible. Yes, and it is effective when there is one sharp point, but if the whole foot hurts and “burns,” where exactly should you inject?
Yes, if only it were that easy to “pluck out” a spur, but alas, it’s really a growth on the bone and very, very painful. I’ve been suffering from spurs for about 15 years now. The last attack has lasted for 10 months (I treated it with physical therapy, shock wave therapy, tablets, ointments, etc.), the last remedy was prescribed individual insoles (I’ve been wearing them for a week), but so far, alas, the effect is almost zero.. I wish everyone good health ...
Hello, my name is Gulya. I've had heel pain for a year now. I didn't know it was a heel spur. I've had severe pain for a month now. I had to go to the hospital and after an x-ray they said it was a heel spur. I had never heard of this before. When they took an X-ray, they told me I could be treated with shock current. Tell him he believes and he can try.
Shock wave therapy will not help, that's 100%! But we have to try everything. We need to look for the reason. I have insoles, and the weight is small, and I don’t have flat feet, but the reason is in the spine. This will be more difficult.
Good health to everyone, I treated the spur for two years both in the hospital and with folk methods and ointments, and X-ray therapy procedures helped me (6 times) I don’t understand why so little is written about this method, because it really helps.
This “nasty” spur was cured a long time ago by myself and many friends with horseradish root infused with kerosene….
Galina, can you tell me how to make this tincture?
Give me the recipe please
Hello, write the recipe please. [email protected]
Write a recipe for horseradish root and kerasin for heel spurs
tell me the recipe, I’m suffering impossible
Can you tell me the recipe?
Galina, please write a recipe on how to cure a spur.
Galina, tell me the recipe... thanks in advance..
Galina Hello. Please write a prescription against spurs. With gratitude Victor.
Hello Galina. Please write the recipe. Both legs hurt, I’ve been suffering for a year, please.
give me the recipe please
If nothing helps you, write to me by email, I will try to help you, without surgical intervention
Galina. tell me the recipe. SOS…..
I ALSO SUFFER from HEALING SPUR PAIN..Advise what to do? Write by email
I also have a heel spur, tell me what to do... write me an email.
Hello, I have had a spur for 2 months now (I took an x-ray). The doctor prescribed insoles and gel. I smeared it, it doesn’t help, the spur is not on the bottom, but on the back side, I can’t put on either shoes or boots. I don’t know what to do, please help.
A friend of mine cured a spur like this: take a raw egg, wash it and place it in a container with vinegar (1 bottle of vinegar essence). After about a month, the egg will dissolve in the vinegar and an ointment will form. It must be applied with caution, because... you can get burned. I wish everyone good health.
Yes, this is a very good recipe that helped my mother.
I'm 4 months old, don't help me what Nada is doing
The recipe is really good, it’s on the Internet, but you need to add butter.
That's exactly the essence. Just where to get it. it is not sold in stores because it has been discontinued. I would give a lot of money to anyone who could help me buy it.
Physical activity. I dug up the garden with a shovel and didn’t notice how I got rid of the spurs
I waddle like a duck... what kind of digging is that?((
By the way, yes. I went to work at a very active job, 10-12 hours of running around, to a warehouse, with a spur in my heel, after 3 days I forgot about it)). Although I thought I wouldn’t be able to step on my foot.
Here is the answer to all your ordeals. A spur is a shortening of the plantar fascia. While digging a garden, you voluntarily and forcibly stretched it. That's why the spur went away.
Treatment is a good massage with stretching of the plantar fascia. A good massage therapist will help you. And you will forget what it is like without medications.
In what proportions did you dig the garden?
Can you tell me what proportion?
Dear forum members, a spur is the body’s defense from constant inflammation or physical overload of the fascia, either it will grow and the pain will go away, or you will find the cause of pain in the heels, they do not arise out of nowhere. Check with a massage therapist the condition of the soleus muscle, if it is tight and painful , then maybe it’s she who’s pulling her heel. I’ve been on the forums for two years now, I’ve tried all the tricks.
Regarding the issue of spurs, find shoes with springy soles, I understand that this is difficult, because on the shoe market these shoes are expensive, at home you also need to walk around in loose flip-flops, massage your feet with cooling cream and under no circumstances do hot baths, this is also my mistake, comfortable baths are acceptable with a decoction of soothing herbs (coniferous, chamomile), with salts. I noticed that venotonic ointments with heparin, troxevasin have a good effect, although I checked the veins and blood vessels.
I completely forgot about the heel spur by making a compress of alcohol at night... due to careless handling of fire, I received a severe burn, now the burn hurts ..((
Good afternoon, my sister was advised to catch a frog and tie it alive to her heel and walk with it. She did this, the frog stayed there for a day (slept with it, the smell was terrible). It helped her, several years have already passed. I can’t decide to do this, although it hurts a lot.
good afternoon! what if you perform the operation! the easiest way
They advised me to apply horseradish leaves at night. A friend cured a spur this way.
I ask people who suffer from small heel spurs and have treated them using shock wave therapy methods to respond. I doubt the effectiveness of this method and ask for advice from everyone who has used it.
In 2015, I fell unsuccessfully from a fence about 2 meters high, fell from the very top, landed on my left heel, walked a few steps, felt a sharp pain in my left heel, had difficulty getting home the next day in the morning, started getting ready for work, couldn’t step on my heel due to pain and couldn’t walk, went to the emergency room (in a car with my father), they took a picture of the heel and foot, nothing special, they said that it was a bruise, damage to the ligaments of the foot. They gave me sick leave for a week. A week later I was able to walk and went to work, but the pain did not go away completely, the doctor said to give my leg rest Within a month, I did this, but after a month the pain completely disappeared, and I decided to warm up with a skipping rope slightly with a gentle minimal load. The next morning the pain appeared again. I went to the emergency room again and was diagnosed with heel spur and plantar fasciitis. The doctor prescribed a course. 10 sessions of physiotherapy using ultra sound. These sessions did not produce results. After this, the doctor recommended wearing insoles and doing shock wave therapy. When using insoles, the pain intensified, after the first session of ultrasonic therapy, it was accompanied by severe pain, after a slight improvement, after a week the pain in the heel again appeared and plus pain appeared on the same left leg in the upper part of the foot (the arch of the foot I don’t know what to call it correctly) because of this pain in the arch of the foot I almost couldn’t walk, after looking at the information about the arch of the foot I didn’t really find anything instinctively I made a bandage from an elastic bandage for the ankle and part of the heel with this bandage I go to work and can’t do without it + the heel in this bandage hurts less, probably due to the shock absorption, I don’t know what this is connected with and the outer arch of the foot does not hurt in this bandage question could one procedure of shock wave therapy cause harm to the ankle or is it the result of improper walking due to pain in the heel. After the next visit to the surgeon, the doctor recommended an injection of Diprospan in the heel. After looking at the reviews and side effects of this drug, I decided for myself that I would not use it. Please Will people with a similar problem like mine respond? Is UVT effective and should it be used in my case with such a small spur as the doctors say? About me 27 years old, heel spurs occur in people after 40 years of age. The question is where did I get it if in the first picture that I took the day after the fall in the emergency room, it was already visible. After asking the doctor and looking for information about heel spurs, the doctor said that a heel spur forms within a month; however, the spur was already visible the next day after the injury (fall). The question is, how could a heel spur form so quickly in one day? if it is formed in a month?
After asking the doctor, he said the spur had been there for a long time. Question: I do sports like wrestling and weightlifting as an amateur (non-professionally for myself with minimal stress on my health). How then could I play sports with this spur without experiencing any discomfort or feeling pain? .If I hadn’t fallen that day, I wouldn’t have known about the existence of this problem. I haven’t trained because of this spur for over a year, I really want to resume training because of inactivity, I gained 10 extra kilos, I began to feel worse without physical exercise and without movements. The question is what should I do next? What is the best thing for me to do in this situation. Respond and write who had the same similar problems as in my case!
Completed 10 sessions of shock wave therapy. Despite the fact that I did compresses, I bought expensive orthopedic insoles and walk in them, rub in Deep Relief gel, and puncture 5 ampoules of Movalis. Everything is as prescribed by doctors. One of the doctors said that the spur would grow and stop hurting on its own. Although, considering what has been written about the spur, this is nonsense. A month and a half passed and the pain eased only a little. The other heel hurt. I don't do anything with her. Something like this.
I had a spur about 10 years ago. I couldn’t stand on my left leg. I tried different methods (tablets, ointments) - it didn’t help. A friend advised me to mix hot red pepper (chopped into porridge in a blender) with honey and apply it to the heel as a compress (put a porridge of pepper and honey on a film, put it on the heel, wrap the leg in cling film so that the porridge does not drain and disintegrate, then I put cotton wool on top for warmth. I wrapped my leg with an elastic bandage (but not too much, just to fix the “compress” and keep such a compress for no longer than 6 hours. Then wash off this paste and smear my leg with a rich cream (I applied “children’s”) And in addition to this, I bought orthopedic insoles, they advised me at the pharmacy - they made walking easier. And I also read a prayer (this is done once on the waning moon), if anyone is interested, I can write to you by mail. You may believe in it, you may not believe it , but when you have crazy pain, then reading the prayer, I believed with great strength that it would help me. And now for 10 years I don’t know what a spur is. And I don’t know for sure what helped me - prayer or a compress of burning pepper. Or maybe both and my great faith that I will cure this spur.
I wish everyone quick relief from the spur!
Please tell me, how many days did you apply this red pepper compress?
Or was this a one-time procedure?
And also the proportions of pepper to honey, 50% honey and 50% pepper?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
Tell me, did you take a repeat x-ray of your foot to make sure the spur went away?
Dear Natalya, I kindly ask you to send a prayer to me.
And in the recipe, pepper and honey are 50% to 50%?
Hello Natalya, please send me a specific recipe for honey + red pepper, in what proportion, and a prayer. Please.
Hello Natalia. can you write me this prayer? Please, if it doesn't bother you. My heel really bothers me. And lying and sitting and while walking. And the bumps on the big toe often get worse. Maybe it’s all the salts that have accumulated over our lives. Since childhood I have loved salted fish. Best regards, Tamara.
Thank you, Natalya for the recommendation! I would be very grateful if you send me a recipe for hot peppers and a prayer. I also suffer with my heels, I can’t walk. I do not know what to do! And I wish you good health and happiness for many years to come! Sincerely, Nina Petrovna
Good afternoon If it’s not too much trouble, please send me the proportions in the recipe for pepper and honey, as well as a prayer. Thanks in advance. Alexander.
8 years ago I had a terrible heel spur. I couldn’t get up on my feet in the morning. The pain was wild. I went to shock wave therapy. After the first session it became much easier. I went four times in total, everything went away completely. However, the session itself was creepy it was painful (the first generation of devices). They made me a device in which there was a rubber ball of water the size of a fitness ball; you press your feet against it, and it hits them - the pain is hellish. You lie on the couch for 20 minutes and dream of dying. only for In the last session, I learned that the procedure must be carried out with an anesthetic (spray) - it was done by another, young, doctor. She didn’t believe that anesthesia was not given - there is a mark on the card that a spray was used. It’s just that the first three sessions were carried out by an old bitch - she just, most likely, a sadist, sat during the session, watched me sob in pain. I’m a guy without any special complexes - I found this sadist in the next office and just gave a shit. I explained the situation to the security and the head doctor and said that if they try to detain me, I’ll sue to the clinic (I don’t remember the number of the clinic now, it’s on Velozavodskaya not far from the TTK). No one stopped me. Now the devices are completely different - they resemble a hair dryer, they just move them along the foot - it doesn’t hurt. About a month ago I got a spur again, though , now only on one leg. I’ll go to UT again, I don’t even doubt it. I think 1-2 sessions will be enough. Now I’ll go to the cupinator and other sites - there are always huge discounts on sessions. And no kerosene, horseradish, prayers, guys, It’s the 21st century already - go to a few sessions and forget about the spur, maybe not forever (it lasted me for 8 years), but for a long time.
Even modern shockwave therapy is painful, so you don’t have to lie, it didn’t hurt you because the earlier procedures helped you. I recently received one procedure on each heel, and the pain made my eyes pop out of my head. I’ll tell you better it became, unfortunately there is simply no way to repeat it, I received the procedures in a sanatorium, it seems we don’t have one in Aktau.
Probably, before UVT sessions, you need to do continuous alcohol compresses for a couple of days so that they soften the salt deposits.
Sergey, I did 10 sessions of UVT (1500 rubles each), but, alas... it still hurts! So, for some, the 21st century, and for others, the old fashioned way with tinctures, peppers, bile and so on...
My husband went through shock wave therapy about five years ago. There were also about 5 sessions for each leg. I don’t know with what device, but I said that it was noticeably painful. But he suffered for 3 days because of a cut finger, and then he said: “Yes, it hurts when they knock on your heels.” So, in principle, it’s possible to endure it. Moreover, after the treatment there was not a single complaint, and at that time he had a good job and was not a boy - he was nearly fifty.