Surgical removal of heel spurs may have sequelae such as severe foot pain and difficulty walking.
1. Severe pain in the foot: The narrow space of the plantar fascial cavity and the bleeding and edema within it after local surgery may lead to minimal plantar fascial interval syndrome, severe pain or local swelling.
2. Difficulty in walking: Skin healing after heel surgery is poorer than other parts of the foot, which is prone to delayed wound healing, necrosis or infection, and deep infection may also lead to osteomyelitis. Deep infection may also lead to osteomyelitis. And when the pain is severe, it will often make people unable to walk normally on the ground, resulting in difficulty in walking.
In addition, heel spurs are treated to a lesser degree of severity with surgical intervention, which has a lower degree of surgical risk. There are only a few risks associated with conventional surgery, such as postoperative infection, blood clots, and poor postoperative recovery, but they are generally not life-threatening. Surgical removal of heel spurs or other treatments should be done by a specialized doctor, with symptomatic treatment, better clinical results, and good postoperative care, and generally without too much worry about the sequelae.