Patient Question: Disease: Heel pain Description: Heel pain for a few months. It hurts more in the morning or it hurts more when I don’t move for a long time. Help wanted: Please ask the doctor to give me some advice on treatment. Medication: Instructions for taking: anti-inflammatory and analgesic cream. Reply from Tang Hejie, Department of Rehabilitation, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University: It is recommended to take a film to exclude heel bone spurs. This condition is mostly seen in subheel fat pad inflammation (young people) and heel bone spurs (elderly people). It is necessary to wear flat-soled soft-heeled shoes (the curved heel washers specially made by the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine’s Support Department are often not effective in practice) and to reduce walking time during attacks, especially not climbing mountains or walking on uneven surfaces. It is recommended to take anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, and to consider ultrashort wave therapy for short duration of the disease, shock wave therapy for those who have had the disease for more than 1-2 months, and early closure or small acupuncture treatment for those who have had poor results.