Swelling and pain in the back of the foot may be caused by over-exercise or due to autoimmune diseases. Ways to reduce swelling and pain include physical therapy and medication.
1. Excessive exercise: If you run or climb mountains for a long time, it may cause congestion and edema of soft tissues in the dorsum of the foot, and the above symptoms will appear. Patients need to reduce the amount of exercise, more rest, more hydration, so that the body has a self-repair process. Secondly, you can choose foot massage, hot water foot soak, baking electricity and other ways to accelerate local blood circulation and relieve soft tissue fatigue.
2. Autoimmune diseases: patients with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and gout may also experience swelling and pain on the back of the feet when they have foot symptoms.
Patients can undergo drug treatment, such as oral allopurinol, benzbromarone and other drugs to lower uric acid. Oral medications such as meloxicam and ibuprofen are taken to reduce the inflammatory response. Oral azathioprine, cyclosporine and other drugs anti-rheumatic.
If the symptoms of swelling and pain on the back of the foot are not relieved, it is necessary to exclude other diseases, including metatarsal bone fracture and metatarsal bone tumor, etc., and should go to the hospital in time to clarify the cause of the disease and then give targeted treatment. The above medications should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoiding self-medication.