Remedies And Treatment Of Heel Spur
A heel spur is a bony protuberance that is located in a heel bone called the calcareous. This is a calcification due to chronic inflammation in the plantar fascia at the height of the calcareous. The plantar fascia is a set of tendons and fibrous tissue that attaches to the heel or heel and joins the base of the toes.
When there is overweight, poorly supported by walking or making efforts to overload these tissues become inflamed, the inflammation when it is chronic calcifying end and forming the scar.
Just who has had a heel spur know how annoying and painful to tell us what it is. Your symptoms are not usually visible seldom it usually does not take visible swelling or redness in the area. The main symptom is pain by supporting the foot, some injections that prevent us from walking normally. These pains are more common when you start to walk, ie after a long period of rest.
Remedies and treatment of heel spur
* Because this is a very painful disease, it is recommended that we use the pain as a guide, ie, avoid where possible the movements and exercises that we know cause us more pain. Ultimately rest.
* In very painful cases the doctor may prescribe anti-inflammatory, especially in an ointment to apply in the area.
* Fill a water bottle and freeze, late night take it off the freezer and it rolled under his foot for about 20 minutes, it reduces inflammation and provides a massage area.
* The use of skirts, especially silicone reduces pain.
* The bandage relieves neuromuscular. This type of dressing with the famous colored elastic bands used by athletes must be placed by a physiotherapist.
* Physiotherapy is very good but due to their high cost and large number of sessions needed to notice an improvement is used as a last resort.
* Home Remedy is very painful to try to reduce friction calcareous prominence, ie, using it to massage the area such as part of scissors round where we put the fingers to be tough if we go eroding many sessions calcification.
* Bathing in warm salt water also improve symptoms.
* The steroid injections much pain subside, the problem is that not good to abuse them.
* Perform warm-up exercises before the walk, bend your fingers and massage the area to warm the plantar fascia’s good to avoid pain caused by the spurs on the feet.
* The surgery is rarely used and is the last resort in very complicated.
* How to prevent their occurrence is advisable to maintain a healthy weight to not load the heel, if carried out well before exercise warm up and find support when walking.