Prevention and treatment of heel pain

  As we grow older, many people experience heel pain, especially some middle-aged people, who get up in the morning or after sitting for a long time, when the foot follows the ground, the heel feels very painful and needs to walk for a period of time to relieve the pain, which seriously affects daily life and work. To hospital treatment, often local hormone injections, relief for a period of time and then the pain, what should be done at this time?  Start with the little things in life to avoid heel pain 1. Try to avoid wearing soft, thin-soled shoes: Many people deliberately switch to soft-soled shoes in order to avoid heel pain, which is actually a misconception. Soft-soled shoes make the heel more in contact with the ground, repeated stimulation leads to recurrent non-specific inflammation of the heel, heel pain is difficult to cure. Come on, first change a pair of hard-soled shoes!  2, the application of hollow heel pain pad in the heel to vacate the bone spur site: to reduce local friction, injury. The easiest way is to find a pair of slightly thicker insoles to chisel the corresponding place of heel pain, so that the painful part no longer touches the sole and avoid repeated stimulation.  3, often do plantar stirrups: enhance the tension of the metatarsal tendon membrane, strengthen its ability to resist strain and reduce local inflammation. The site of heel pain is the attachment site of the plantar fascia, which can be understood as the junction of tendon and bone. As we age, both bone and tendon show signs of aging, and just like wrinkles appear on the face, signs of aging appear at the junction of bone and tendon on the sole of the foot. Save it by exercising! Every morning, use your hands to toes to stretch the tendons on the bottom of your feet.  4, warm water foot soak: improve the blood flow of the foot to improve the heel pain also has some benefits, but the time must be more than 15 minutes.  5, when there is persistent pain, oral medication: some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug treatment, you can also use local creams or injections of anti-inflammatory and pain relief injection for short-term treatment, while paying attention to the general body condition, whether there is osteoporosis, osteophytes, metabolic diseases often appear foot symptoms.  For persistent heel pain, and do not have time to take care of it every day, or after conservative treatment is ineffective, minimally invasive surgical treatment is feasible, the surgical incision is less than one centimeter, the effect is better, and the risk of surgery is very small. However, the condition for surgery is that you must undergo 6 months of ineffective conservative treatment.