How does spur on his heel

Spurs on their heels - it's always painful. Patients usually begin their "output" by various folk methods (which is absolutely useless), while the orthopedic trauma could advise on how to avoid injury to the Spurs, that is to get rid of the pain.

Some people believe that heel spurs - it's salt deposits, and it can dissolve the folk ways. But this is completely wrong, as heel spurs - this is not the salt, and the expansion of the heel bone and no "dissolution" it can not be. Spur serves as a thorn in the heel bone and the soft tissue is constantly injured the heel when walking, which causes severe pain and inability to wear just any shoes.

Heel spur occurs when injury of the heel bone, or by other means. The injury causes inflammation of the heel bone, which ends with the growth of bone tissue. For example, for flat Flatfoot - whether to treat it?   (broken load distribution on the foot), obesity (high load on the foot), violation of the metabolic processes in the body, wearing tight shoes (long-term irritation of the periosteum of the calcaneus friction) after an acute injury of the heel bone, poor circulation heel, chronic arthritis and arthrosis ( diseases of the joints).

When the heel spur person becomes painful to walk eventually grow and the pain become unbearable. Footwear impossible to find any. If you do not walk for a while, the pain disappeared. Particularly affected people with overweight - soft tissue injury heel have significantly greater than in lean people.

Of great importance is the individual sensitivity of tissues. For example, some people simply do not notice their spurs because they do not feel pain. Others, having spur much smaller, experiencing severe pain - getting up on their feet, they feel a pain as if a nail hammered into the heel.

Diagnostics

Diagnosis of the disease begins with a tour of traumatologist orthopaedist. Diseases has the characteristic manifestations, that it is difficult with something confused. However, the diagnosis is always confirmed by X-ray: usually spur is clearly visible in the pictures. In addition, it established cause of heel spurs, such as flat feet, arthritis and so on.

After the examination and confirmation of the diagnosis treatment is prescribed. Treatment of heel spurs Heel spur - walking on coals   It can be conservative and surgical.

Prevention

Prevention is a timely treatment of diseases of the lower extremities, as any disease that causes gait disorder, may increase the burden on the heel bone and hurt her. It prevents the emergence of heel spurs weight loss, improved blood supply to the legs in any way (massage, gymnastics and so on), wearing comfortable shoes with heels of medium height, treatment of any orthopedic diseases (eg, flat), and diseases of the joints.

Heel spur - an unpleasant disease, but the experienced find a way to help the patient.

Galina Romanenko