It is believed that time can heal. Yes, it cures many diseases, but among them there are those that are not subject to time. Such diseases, or rather, pain, include heel pain. When it appears, people are in no hurry (for some reason known to them) to see a doctor and drag out for several months, overcoming painful sensations. However, heel pain refers specifically to those pains that themselves do not go away. The matter is compounded by the fact that the heel is under constant load, because a person, in fact, stands on it, so it constantly affects the focus of pain.
What is the heel for the leg? I must say that it serves as a kind of shock absorber. The human heel consists of a rather thick layer of subcutaneous fat and calcaneus. The calcaneus is so strong that it can withstand heavy loads. But the matter is slightly aggravated by the fact that the heel has a number of blood vessels and nerves, but their security is small, because the heel itself is soft and spongy.
It is because of these nerves that the heel hurts in some cases, because injuring her is quite simple. One of the most common injuries is a crack in the heel skin or a tear in the skin strip from the calcaneus to the very toes. Such a crack is called plantar fasciitis. This disease is insidious in that when walking the heel does not hurt on its own, and pain can be given to other parts of the body.
Sometimes the heel also hurts due to wearing uncomfortable and tight shoes, as well as inflammation of the tendons of the leg. And if there is a deposition of calcium salts on the heel bones, then a heel spur occurs. It can cause pain of "local significance", which makes itself felt while walking. The cause of this pain is considered to be a chronic compression of the nerve of the tibia under the muscles of the flexors.
If the heel hurts with a burning, hardly tolerated pain, which usually begins to develop with polyneuropathy, then this pain can be given not only to the heel, but also to the muscles of the legs and even to the hands, and also cause seizures.
If the foot is experiencing too much stress, then soon this may result in burning calcaneal pain. Such loads usually occur if a person often and for a long time wears tight shoes with very low heels.
From all of the above, it becomes clear that the heel can be called almost the most vulnerable part of the human body. Therefore, it must be protected and groomed. If your heel hurts, then you don’t have to wait for “good weather”, so you need to urgently seek medical help. For only he is able to make the correct diagnosis and prescribe treatment. However, even in this case, a person should know that treating a sore heel is not so easy. Sometimes such treatment can last more than one month.
So, if the heel hurts, then the first two days it is recommended to treat it with the help of the cold. Those. you need to take a small ice cube and start driving it on the heel until it goes numb. Such a kind of massage is recommended several times a day. After two days of such procedures, it is recommended to replace the cold with heat. Those. attach a piece of ice to the heel for a quarter of an hour, then rest for 15-20 minutes, then attach a heating pad filled with hot water to the heel.
In the event that the heel hurts due to fasciitis, then in this case, the heel insert is able to come to the rescue. Such an insert is inserted into the shoes, as a result of which the heel rises higher by about 0.7 cm. This allows you to reduce the load on the heel transition.
Needless to say, those people who suffer from heel pain should pay special attention to their shoes. If the shoes are selected in accordance with all the rules, this will provide the heel with the necessary support and reduce the load on it.