The common causes of lateral heel pain include sports injury, trauma, Achilles tendonitis, lumbar disc herniation, diabetic complications, gout and so on. 1. Sports injury: because of the lack of adequate warm-up before exercise or exercise time is too long, excessive intensity, can cause minor soft tissue injuries, resulting in pain in the heel, usually can be relieved after rest. 2. Trauma: there is a clear history of injury, because the role of violence leads to soft tissue injuries such as Achilles tendon, muscle injury or Achilles bone fracture resulting in pain. 3. Achilles tendonitis: It is a sterile inflammatory reaction that occurs in the Achilles tendon, caused by repeated strenuous stretching and other reasons, resulting in injury to the Achilles tendon. Common symptoms include pain and swelling in the Achilles tendon area. 4. Lumbar disc herniation is a degenerative change that occurs in the lumbar intervertebral discs because the nucleus pulposus protrudes and compresses the sciatic nerve, leading to radiating pain and numbness in the lower limbs. 4. Diabetes complications: diabetes long-term blood sugar control is not good, resulting in vascular lesions such as lower extremity vascular occlusion, triggering hemorrhagic necrosis of tissues and pain. 5. Gout: because of long-term high purine diet such as beer, seafood, animal offal, etc., resulting in hyperuricemia, urate deposition in the joints and periarticular tissues appear inflammatory reaction. Common symptoms include pain, fever and swelling. Causes of lateral heel pain are more reasons, may also be related to varicose veins of the lower limbs, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, heel bursitis and other diseases, if the symptoms continue to be unrelieved, it is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner, to clarify the cause of the disease, and to carry out targeted treatment.