To prevent heel spurs, you need to change your lifestyle. If the disease has already appeared, begin treatment as early as possible, including with the help of traditional medicine. Indeed, among folk recipes, there are many time-tested methods for treating heel spurs.
The list of folk methods for treating heel spurs is very extensive, but their general meaning is to relieve the inflammatory process using simple, accessible means.
You can choose treatment with compresses, rubbing or massage. The main thing in folk medicine is that it requires a systematic approach, since all medical procedures have a cumulative effect.
Sew a layer of fabric to the heel of the sock on top, pouring peas into it in an even layer in advance. Put on a sock, shoes on top and walk like that. After some time, the pain will subside and you will feel better.
Pour 40 degrees alcohol into dried lilac flowers in equal proportions and leave for 10 days in a closed container. Take 30 drops several times a day, rub or make compresses with the tincture on the sore areas of the heel area.
Before going to bed, wash your feet with soap and dry. Pour a little turpentine and rub into the heel with massaging movements. Repeat this several times and put on a wool sock. Do it seven evenings, seven days - break, then repeat again.
Pass the garlic through the garlic press, place it on a cloth and apply it to the spur. Leave the garlic until it starts to bake. It is better to do this procedure during the day.
Pour a tablespoon of iodine into a small container and immerse your heel in it. This procedure must be carried out until the iodine is completely absorbed by the skin. Five such procedures will be enough.
Take 2-3 ficus leaves, cut into long strips, put in a jar and fill with ammonia. Within 24 hours, the tincture is ready and you can lubricate your heels.
Collect urine 24 hours in advance and in the evening heat it to such a temperature that you can soak your feet in it. Continue the bath until the urine cools completely. When finished, without wiping your feet, put on socks and sleep like that.
Steam your feet in the evening. Then pour the bile onto a piece of cotton wool and apply strictly only to the heel spur itself (a burn may appear on the skin). Cover with a piece of cellophane and bandage. Put a wool sock on your foot. You can remove the cotton wool in the morning or leave it on. Repeat the procedure in the evening. Do this every evening until the pain disappears. Read more about treatment with medical bile for heel spurs.
To treat heel spurs, take drops of Zelenin and drops of valerian in equal proportions and mix. Next, fold the gauze into four layers, moisten it and apply it to the heels, making sure to wrap it in cellophane on top. Put on a sock and leave it overnight.
At the beginning of the day, pour a teaspoon of starch into a sock. Walk like this throughout the day.
Grate the raw potatoes along with the peel. Apply the resulting puree to the heel, put on a sock or wrap it with a bandage, leaving it overnight.
For the bath, take: 2 fresh chicken eggs, 40 ml of vinegar essence, 200 ml of turpentine. Mix and apply as lotions or compresses to heel spurs for 3 hours several times a day. Store the mixture in a dark place.
Cut off a cabbage leaf, brush with honey and apply to the sore foot. Put a sock on top and keep this bandage on for a couple of hours.
Apply a small piece of fresh lard to the heel and wrap the foot in cellophane, put on socks and leave it overnight.
Apply a plantain leaf “inside out” to the heel, be sure to replace it with a fresh one when it dries.
To reduce pain when walking, place a rubber ring under your heel.
Grate the radish with the peel, apply the resulting pulp to the heel spur overnight.
While sitting at a computer or TV screen, exercise your legs by rolling a ball.
You can also make yourself a foot mat from sea pebbles of various sizes. As a last resort, you can roll a dough rolling pin or tennis ball with your foot. The main thing is that this massage does not cause pain!
Grate the laundry soap and melt it over the fire. Apply this mixture as a compress to the heel spur at night.
Collect nettles, grind them through a meat grinder, and place the pulp on a burdock leaf. At night, apply the resulting compress to the heel and secure with a bandage.
Place wet elderberry leaves on the heel and under the toes, and put a sock on top.
Cut the onion in half, add 1 drop of tar to each half and apply to the sore heel.
Take an incomplete glass of water, dilute one tablespoon of cinquefoil. Must be taken before meals three times a day. The treatment course is twenty days.
Melt 100 g of honey and 5 g of mumiyo in a water bath, cool the composition. Rub the mixture into the sore heel at night.
Take 20 grams of chopped pine nuts and pour 200 grams of vodka. Leave for 7-8 days. Drink a tablespoon before meals several times a day.
Steam your feet in a small amount of baking soda. Soak a piece of gauze in the kombucha infusion and then apply it to the heel. Wet the bandage every 3 hours.
It is better to use May burdock leaves. Bandage a fresh sheet to the heel and walk with this bandage all day.
Mix 50 ml of alcohol and a tablespoon of sunflower oil. Apply this mixture to the area of the sore heel every day. The duration of the procedure is thirty minutes. The course is two weeks.
Softened bee glue should be applied to the steamed leg. It is recommended to wear the bandage during the daytime.
You should prepare a saline solution: to do this, you need to dissolve one kilogram of salt in five liters of hot water. Boil water, cool to the temperature so that you can put your feet in the bucket. Carry out the procedure until the water cools completely. Leave the solution itself and warm it up each time. Carry out 10 such procedures.
Boil the potatoes in their skins, crush them immediately and mix with a teaspoon of kerosene. Immediately place it on cellophane and bandage it to the heel. Be sure to wear a sock on top.
Mix honey with sea salt 1:1. At night, prepare a compress on the heel.
Place a few tablespoons of fresh cottage cheese on a piece of gauze and secure it on the sore heel before going to bed. This procedure should be carried out 3 nights in a row.
Pick fresh knotweed, place it in your shoes or socks and walk around throughout the day. Repeat in the morning, putting a new portion in your shoes. Knotweed can be replaced with woodlice.
Therapy for heel spurs requires an integrated approach, and folk remedies are a good way to complement conservative treatment, which will help you quickly get rid of heel pain, subject to a systematic approach and a great desire to defeat the disease.
A heel spur is a bony growth in the form of a beak or spike that is located on the surface of the heel bone or near the attachment of the Achilles tendon.
This growth in most cases appears due to excessive traction of the tendons in the heel bone. The inflammatory process that accompanies plantar fasciitis often affects the surrounding soft tissues, mucous bursae and periosteum, causing pain in the foot.
The disease occurs most often in middle-aged and elderly people.
The appearance of a heel spur is caused by excessive stretching of the plantar fascia and its microtears at the site of attachment to the heel. This situation is caused by:
The main symptom of a heel spur is pain that does not occur on its own, but when putting pressure on the heel. The intensity of the pain can be so severe that it can be compared to a nail in the heel. Acute, unbearable pain can be localized on the inner surface of the heel or spread over its entire surface.
In most cases, pain occurs in the morning when first placing weight on the foot after sleep, after prolonged sitting, and also after wearing uncomfortable shoes.
The onset of painful heel spur symptoms can be sudden or gradual. In the second option, the disease becomes chronic. The performance of people suffering from heel spurs is noticeably reduced; they try to step on the sore heel as little as possible.
Upon visual examination, roughness and redness of the skin is observed in the heel area. Palpation of the calcaneal tuber causes pain. With a posterior heel spur, patients experience acute pain at the junction of the Achilles tendon. Most often this occurs due to pressure from the heel of the shoe while walking. Edema may also appear in this area.
It should be noted that the size of the growth in no way affects the intensity of pain.
Treatment of heel spurs must begin with reducing the load on the affected leg and eliminating pressure on the heel.
If it is not possible to organize strict bed rest for the patient, then it is possible to unload the diseased limb and thereby relieve pressure on the foot by using special means such as canes, sticks, crutches, by using orthopedic shoes and insoles, as well as by using braces or orthoses for fixing the position of the foot.
A good effect in the treatment of heel spurs at home can be achieved by using conservative treatment methods that are aimed at relieving inflammation, which helps counter degenerative phenomena and tissue regeneration, as well as relieving pain and reducing swelling of the soft tissues surrounding the heel bone.
When treating heel spurs at home, traditional medicine offers many different recipes. Some of them can be considered quite effective, but only at the initial stages of the process. These include:
Using traditional medicine methods, every person suffering from a heel spur should know that folk remedies promote the resorption of salt deposits and inflammatory edema, but with their help it is impossible to remove a bone growth.
Treatment of heel spurs with folk remedies also includes the use of medicinal plants:
All of the above methods for treating heel spurs at home require persistence and patience. This is the only way to overcome this disease.
Numerous studies conducted by specialists have shown that at some point every tenth inhabitant of the planet may encounter a disease such as a heel spur. It can manifest itself absolutely suddenly in quite unpleasant sensations and severe pain.
If you start fighting a spur as soon as its symptoms are identified, then you can get by with such conservative treatment methods as ointments, all kinds of compresses, baths, warming up, and special exercises. In turn, particularly advanced, severe cases may require further surgical intervention. Thus, when you first notice the symptoms of a heel spur, be sure to visit a specialist who will confirm the diagnosis and make recommendations regarding the treatment of your case.
A heel spur can occur suddenly and be the result of diseases such as diabetes, previous injuries, diseases of the joints and spine. In addition, exhausting physical activity, frequent walking in fairly high heels and metabolic disorders can contribute to the development of heel spurs. It can be especially noticeable in the morning, when you have just gotten up, and also after you have been on your feet for a long time, your feet have experienced intense stress.
If the disease is at an early stage, then walking barefoot on a sandy beach or pebbles has proven to be quite effective. Thus, your feet receive a pleasant natural massage, blood circulation in them increases, which has a beneficial effect on your well-being. You need to take a walk for at least half an hour every day in the summer. You can also walk on grass and small stones in your summer cottage. In winter, you can use heated sand or sea salt as a compress, placing it in a canvas bag. You can also pour them into a small basin into which the sore leg should be immersed. Massage using a rolling pin has proven to be quite effective if you roll it with your sore leg every day.
Metals such as copper and aluminum have proven to be quite effective for treating heel spurs. Aluminum foil is placed in shoes in the place where its surface comes into contact with the affected area. The copper object must be preheated and placed on the spur area, leaving until it cools completely. If you have a magnet at home, you can apply it for a couple of hours every day.
Dissolve a kilogram of salt in five liters of water and bring to a boil, and then cool to a comfortable temperature. Place the foot on which the spur appeared, allowing it to warm up thoroughly. You can carry out this treatment every day.
These are just a few of the effective heel spur recipes that you can prepare from available home remedies. To get rid of spurs as quickly as possible, focus your efforts on providing regular, good warming and massage your feet as often as possible.