High uric acid can cause heel pain, mainly because high uric acid causes urate crystals to accumulate around the joints, leading to sterile inflammation of the joints, which can involve a number of areas, including the heel, dorsum of the foot, knee, ankle and hand joints. The exact cause of high uric acid is not well understood and is relatively common in men, but can also be seen in postmenopausal women. There are two main ways to treat high uric acid, as follows: 1. diet: a strict low purine diet, not to eat animal offal, seafood, not to drink alcohol, drink drinks containing high fructose; 2. drugs: take acid-lowering drugs, there are two main types of drugs, one is to inhibit the production of uric acid, such as allopurinol and febuxostat, and the other is to promote the excretion of uric acid drugs, such as benzbromarone.