Effective treatment of the spur on the heel of folk remedies

If you feel pain in the area of ​​the heel while walking, and you feel like you were "hit with a nail" - there is a high probability that your heel spurs develop. What is this disease, how to detect it and how to treat it at home?

This is what we will talk about in this article.

• Why does the spur appear?
• Characteristic symptoms
• General recommendations
• Methods of drug-free fighting
• Therapeutic baths
• Compresses
• What is not recommended to do?
• Preventative measures

Why does the spur appear?

The scientific name of the "calcaneal spur" is plantar fasciitis. Plantar fascia is a ligament, which accounts for the weight of a person when walking. With a heavy load on this ligament, a microfracture occurs, which leads to the formation of a calcaneal spur.

Inside the foot, the spur looks like a sharp outgrowth protruding from the calcaneus. When walking, this build-up causes a feeling of pain and discomfort, as it traumatizes the tissues of the heel.

The second main reason for the appearance of spurs may be inflammation of the fascia, due to a traumatic injury, or diseases such as arthritis or osteoarthritis.

Also, doctors noted that the calcaneal spur can develop due to the following problems:

• disease, due to which blood flow in the legs and feet is disturbed;
• overweight, obesity, problems in metabolic processes;
• presence of diabetes mellitus;
• too much load on the foot;
• wearing tight or uncomfortable shoes, constant wearing heels;
• flat feet;
• arthritis or gout, as well as osteoarthritis;
• osteochondrosis of the lumbosacral spine, due to which there is an incorrect load distribution to the feet;
• excess salt deposition in heel tissues;
• vascular changes in the heel area;
• injury or mechanical damage to the foot.

Due to the above reasons, there is a chronic inflammatory process, which causes partial ossification of the tendons. Inflammation occurs in the tissues of the heel of the calcaneus, at the site of attachment of muscle tendons.

It leads to the formation of bone growth - the "spur" - which presses on the tissues and traumatizes them. This effect is enhanced by walking or increased sports loads.

Quite often the heel spur is called a disease of athletes.

Characteristic symptoms of

In order to distinguish the heel spur from another inflammatory disease or fracture, it is necessary to pay attention to the symptoms characteristic for this disease.

It should be considered if there are one or more of the symptoms listed below:

• Pain during walking, which is then intensified during the day, then it subside.
• A small, less noticeable seal appeared in the heel area, which is easier to detect by touch than visually.
• When you get up and completely rest on the foot, the pain intensifies. There is a sharp sharp pain, as if a nail was stuck in the heel.
• The pain subsides when you lie or sit quietly.
• Especially acute pain sensations appear in the morning.
• From the side you can see the change in the gait.

To accurately diagnose and identify the calcaneal spur, you will need to perform an ultrasound examination or make an X-ray of the foot. The spur on the X-ray photograph looks like a bone outgrowth whose sharp edge is directed towards the toes.

Depending on the severity of the disease, it is also important to establish the stage of its development. In the later stages, when the spur is already running and the patient can not move at all without crutches, it is usually performed surgically by removing it.

In the early stages and in the process of development, both medicamental and folk remedies are excellent for the removal of inflammation. The latter managed to prove themselves well in the fight against this disease.

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General recommendations

In order to reduce pain and start treating the disease, the first step should be to change the habitual mode of exercise.

Drugs for the treatment of spurs are not recommended to be selected independently, and in most cases they are effective in cases of severe inflammation and the need for drug blockade( injections).

In other cases, compresses and folk remedies are excellent in helping to remove inflammation and relieve pain in the heel.

With the same form of spurs, only one recommended - to remove it surgically. A doctor must decide on the operation.

If you find out that you have a calcaneal spur, then use the following tips:

• Revise the habitual load mode. Patient area needs to create sparing conditions.
• Discard shoes with heels or absolutely flat soles. Buy light sneakers with insteps on flat soles. With a calcaneal spur, they are the most acceptable footwear.
• Buy special orthopedic insoles for a spur-stricken leg.
• Do not take long walks.
• Do not wear weights.
• Temporarily exclude physical activity and sports - especially running, tennis, dancing and jumping.

You can also refer to the traditional methods of treating the heel spurs, which doctors usually offer. It is:

• ultraviolet irradiation of the sore spot;
• electrophoresis;
• X-ray therapy;
• laser therapy;
• applications and mineral foot baths;
• foot massage;
• special therapeutic gymnastics;
• physiotherapy;
• ultrasound treatment;
• drug treatment - injections, ointments, taking painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs.

The listed methods are used to remove the inflammatory process in the heel and heel tissues, and to alleviate the pain symptom.

Treatment with medicines is entirely aimed exclusively at eliminating inflammation, and can be perfectly replaced by folk remedies.

The latter option is especially suitable for those who do not want to use drugs without special need, most of which have their side effects.

With the same general recommendations from the section above in combination with folk therapy will help you effectively fight the disease.

How to treat at home?

The fight against calcaneal spur folk remedies is divided into two main methods: the application of the applique to relieve inflammation, and special foot baths.

Used in the fight against the disease and medicinal herbs, and medical bile, and fat, and even laundry soap. Each of these methods is effective in its own way, and they can be used in a complex way, or alternated.

But still it is not recommended to apply at the same time a dozen different methods, it is better to choose one or two, and to perform the recommended course of treatment.

Let's start with the folk recipes of the baths from the spur.

Therapeutic baths

Salt

For it you will need ordinary food or sea salt and soda.

1. Prepare a clean basin and boil the water for the bath.
2. Cool the water to your tolerable temperature( it should be hot).
3. Make a strong saline solution from the calculation of 3 tablespoons of salt to 1.5 liters of water. Add 2 tablespoons of soda.
4. Put your feet in the tub. It should take at least 20 minutes.
5. As the water cools, add boiling water to it. It is necessary to maintain a uniform temperature.

This bath should be done from 2 weeks to 1 month.

With iodine

This bath requires pharmacy iodine and soda.

1. Boil 3 liters of water, cool to a tolerable temperature.
2. Add 15 ml of iodine and 2 tablespoons of soda to the water.
3. Put your feet in the tub, hold for at least 15 minutes. As the water cools, add hot water.

This bath is used for 14 to 21 days.

With herbs

For its preparation you will need a glass of dried horsetail or a glass of nettle. You can mix in a 1: 1 ratio.

1. Pour grass or a mixture of herbs with 1 liter of hot water. Let it brew for a couple of hours in a dark place.
2. Strain the resulting infusion through cheesecloth.
3. Boil the water and cool it to a tolerable temperature. Add the broth of herbs.
4. Take the bath for at least 15 minutes, keeping the water temperature at 1 level.
5. After wipe your feet and lubricate your heels with an emollient cream, you can use "Fastum Gel".

To achieve the effect, the bath should be done from 10 to 30 days.

Compresses

With medical bile

For him you will need bile medical, which you can buy at the pharmacy.

How to use:

1. Unroll your legs, you can just in hot water, you can with the addition of soda.
2. Wipe your foot dry, soak the cotton wool with a bile.
3. Put a tampon to the patient heel, secure with a sterile bandage so that it does not slip.
4. Wrap the heel with polyethylene and put a warm toe on your foot.

Such a compress is best done at night, the course of 10 days - until the disappearance of pain symptoms. In the morning, the compress should be removed.

With turpentine

For him you will need a turpentine drugstore.

How to use:

1. Slightly steam up your feet in a warm bath, then wipe dry.
2. Gaulet roll in 3-4 layers, then soak a small amount of turpentine.
3. Apply a compress on the heel, hit by the spur, and secure with a bandage( you can be elastic).
4. Over the top of the pack, wear a sock.

It is applied by a course from 7 days.

Alcohol

For this compress, both medical alcohol and quality vodka are suitable.

How to use:

1. Unhook your legs, wipe them dry. You can use soda for the bath, so that the skin of the heels softens.
2. Soak a cotton swab with alcohol or vodka, attach to a sick heel.
3. Secure the compress with a bandage.
4. Put the sock on top.

This compress is also recommended for overnight. Course - from 7 days.

For the best effect, you can combine the baths with the appliqués, and the spur will stop bothering you much more quickly. Important - do not use these drugs if you have allergies or intolerance to certain components.

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What is not recommended?

An important specification for those who decided to treat the spur with folk remedies - please, adequately assess recipes and advice. Soak the heel in iodine for hours or burn alcohol and it warm your feet - and such advice is found on the Internet, and in life! , is dangerous for your health!

What you do not need to do if you have a spur:

• Independently use medicines without doctor's prescription( exception - iodine for iodine mesh, bile, alcohol), especially - injections.
• Puncture the heel and put sulfur or other substance there.
• I drink diluted water iodine 2-3 times a day( nothing will help, for the spur need local funds).
• Use feline( dog, sheep. ..) wool instead of compress;
• Leave the compress longer than 12 hours;
• Mix more than two recipes of traditional medicine.
• Use the so-called "massage" - hammers, logs, etc. You can damage the bone growth( the spur itself) and provoke a fracture of the calcaneus.

Preventative measures

Prevention of calcaneal spur formation is very important, especially when you have already got rid of the disease. Unfortunately, if the causes of spur formation are not eliminated, it can appear again and again .Therefore, it is very important to monitor your health and prevent a possible relapse of the disease.

To do this, simply follow the tips below:

• Relieve excess weight - it gives an additional load on the legs( respectively, on the tendons and feet).
• Try to avoid intense physical activity - including sports.
• Take care of the normalization of metabolism.
• Buy yourself comfortable orthopedic shoes. As the proverb says, "aging begins with feet."Diseases also begin with feet, as they hold the weight of the entire body. Do not tire your feet and do not skimp on quality shoes.
• Do not wear shoes with heels - the maximum permissible height should not exceed 3-4 centimeters.
• Regularly X-ray stop.
• Do often at the end of the day, the foot bath, with sea salt or herbal decoctions.

We hope that the recipes given in this article will be useful to you, and you will soon forget about the pain in your feet. And if you have your own secrets of getting rid of the spur folk remedies - you can suggest them in the comments.