Heel spur is a bone growth that looks like a beak or spike in the area of the surface of the sole of the tubercle of the heel bone, as well as in places where the Achilles tendon is attached . Heel spur can occur in both young and old people, both women and men. To the question - how to treat spurs on the heels, there are many answers, many folk recipes have proven their magnificent miracle action. The causes of this disease can be different directions - this is longitudinal flatfoot, and rheumatism, and chronic or acute trauma, and neurodystrophic or vascular disorders, and even infections can lead to the appearance of a heel spur.
Usually the first signs of a calcaneal spur are pain when walking, the first steps of a person who woke up, and also pain in the legs with a long sitting position. Also, spur on the heel symptoms can mean sharp, stitching-cutting pain in the heel when supported. Such pain may rarely recur, but it may be chronic in nature, passing from lesser pain to more severe and acute pain. So how to treat heel spurs? There are two possible answers - either see a doctor, or take up independent treatment, but be extremely careful. A doctor can cure this disease in several processes, it is recommended not one, but several conduction of recovery measures at once. An experienced doctor will prescribe treatment, prescribe drugs, ointments and gels that have a resolving and anti-inflammatory effect. Therefore, to the question - how to treat spurs on the heels, only a specialist can give a competent answer. In general, self-medication is not recommended for calcaneal spur. Firstly, a person can achieve a completely unpleasant result, and secondly, it is necessary to determine the exact cause of the pain, as well as determine the diagnosis of the disease. Thus, it is possible to get rid of spurs on the heels only together with doctors - an orthopedist, rheumatologist and arthrologist. Only they will examine the patient and prescribe the correct treatment. After all, there are several main causes of the manifestation of diseases:
- injury or overload of the tendon;
- infectious lesions, especially of the genitals;
- gout and inflammatory diseases.
These serious diseases can become synoptics of the heel spur. But still, if a person does not consider it necessary to go to the hospital, then to the question - how to treat spurs on the heels, there are several tips and folk remedies:
- in the fight against calcaneal spur leaves of burdock will help, which must be tied to the heels or feet at night, you need to wind a rag on top and tie a plastic bag. Such a procedure should be carried out no more than 10 days;
- salt, iodine and honey also help, for this you will need to make gruel. Take honey - a tablespoon, iodine - 1 vial, salt - 1 teaspoon. Mix everything and apply on a bandage or cotton wool. Such a bandage must also be wrapped in a bag and kept all night;
- you can make special herbal baths, which may include - wormwood, burdock and nettle. Treatment is carried out for about a month, soaring in the foot bath. But then the disease will disappear forever;
- fly agaric - an excellent mushroom, which significantly helps get rid of the heel spur. To do this, apply fresh fly agaric to the heels;
- Ordinary fat will also help in the fight against this disease. To do this, melt about 100 grams of fat in a pan and add 100 grams of vinegar, a teaspoon of honey and a raw chicken egg. Insist such a lotion for about two days and apply on a sore steamed leg every night. For the full effect you need to wear a sock, this procedure is performed for about a week and then disappears.
There are other methods of healing and treating heel spurs, but these are the most common.