Patients who experience foot pain when wearing flat shoes should choose the appropriate relief measures according to the different causes, which include local soft tissue injury, damaged tendon sheaths, and flat feet. Treatment measures include physical therapy, drug therapy and surgery.
1. Local soft tissue injury: As the soles of flat shoes may be hard, wearing them for a long time will make the soft tissues under the feet under excessive local pressure, resulting in soft tissue injury and local pain. Patients can apply hot compresses and physiotherapy to relieve pain, and also use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen to reduce inflammation and analgesia.
2. Ligament damage: wearing flat shoes will lead to the center of gravity to shift back, foot local ligament damage caused by pain. If the ligament damage is not serious, you can take hot compresses and physiotherapy to speed up the recovery; you can also use casts and braces to fix it. If the ligament damage is serious or even torn, ligament repair surgery should be carried out.
3. Flat feet: some patients because of flat feet, long time wearing flat shoes can cause the bottom of the foot load-bearing significantly increased, sustained force triggered by the bottom of the foot obvious pain. Patients can replace the corrective insole to correct the uneven stress brought about by the flat arch. In severe cases, surgical treatment such as medial heel surgery is required to relieve the pain in the ball of the foot caused by plantar flattening.
Therefore, it is recommended that patients with plantar pain in flat shoes seek medical attention in a timely manner and choose the appropriate treatment measures under the advice of a doctor.