Heel spur is an orthopedic acquired disease that can occur against the background of an existing problem, such as trauma, inflammation, or an infectious process.
How to treat heels? Disease prevention
The procedure for the treatment of heel spurs, as in the homeconditions, and in medical institutions is a procedure that takes more than one day. Therefore, it is best to spend a little time, which will be directed to prevention, especially since all this does not require any special effort. But if there is already a slight pain in the heel when walking, how to treat this ailment? The following will help.
Comfortable shoes.Lovers of skinny socks, as well as high heels and other frills of fashion, need to periodically change their beautiful, but not comfortable enough shoes to less attractive, stable moccasins or sneakers.
Healthy lifestyle.Diseases of the spine, joints, flat feet, inflammatory, and infectious processes - all this must be prevented and not started. Just taking care of yourself will help avoid a situation where there is pain in the heel when walking. How to treat a serious illness if it could not be avoided? If all the symptoms indicate a disease, it is necessary to immediately begin the process of treatment.
Methods of treating spurs in medical institutions
Prices for the treatment of heel spurs vary depending on the underlying stage of the disease and the proposed method of getting rid of it. There are several methods of treatment.
Ultrasound or shock wave therapy.This method of treatment is considered young, it is used for no more than ten years. To date, he has become advanced in the fight against heel spurs. Its main advantages are the absence of age restrictions, as well as inpatient treatment. Its principle is that ultrasound, acting on a specific area, "kills" diseased cells, while not touching healthy ones.
Procedures. Various massages, warming, therapeutic exercises.
Surgical intervention It is an extreme method of treatment when it is impossible to cope in other ways due to inflammation or a strong growth of the bone.
Does traditional medicine treat heel pain when walking
How to treat a spur at home and whetherfrom this result? Fortunately, folk recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation, and are no less effective than official medicine, help to solve this problem. The only negative - a longer period of treatment compared with the official medicine. When there is a sharp pain in the heel, it is effective and useful to make baths, various compresses, and also to use ointments. But at the same time, it is important to follow some rules: keep your foot warm, do not load it, perform complex procedures.
Folk recipes used in the treatment of heel spurs
- Iodine.It has been observed that iodine helps very well in treating pain in the heel. It is used in the form of baths: 5-10 drops should be added to warm water and steam your feet for 15 minutes, then wipe them dry and put on warm socks. Iodine is also used to compress along with aspirin. To do this, 50 ml of iodine is stirred with six aspirin tablets. The composition is applied twice a day to the foot for a month.
- Potatoes.The effectiveness of potato compress has long been proven: it relieves pain, swelling and does not allow the spur to grow larger. It is necessary to boil a pound of potato tubers, drain the water, mash the potatoes, cool slightly and add a little kerosene. Gruel is applied to the foot for a month.
- Cabbage, burdock and plantain. These plants have long been famous for their healing properties: the ability to relieve swelling and pain.
- Fresh carrot and beet gruel also contributes to reducing the edema, redness, pain, and other symptoms observed with a heel spur.
