Can you hit a heel spur with a hammer?

Using a hammer on a heel spur can cause new damage and aggravate the condition. Heel spurs are a type of osteophyte. Simple spurs with no obvious symptoms can be considered without special treatment. When accompanied by pain, activity limitation and other symptoms, need to be treated according to the cause of the disease. If it is caused by rheumatism or rheumatoid rheumatism, systematic anti-rheumatism and anti-inflammatory treatment should be carried out. If it is caused by localized fasciitis, rest is needed and anti-inflammatory drugs such as Loxoprofen should be used as prescribed by the doctor. The hammer smashing bone spur may make the heel spur broken, but the process of smashing is easy to damage the surrounding tissues, blood vessels, nerves and other tissues, in addition to this, the smashed bone spur in the local accumulation may cause inflammatory reaction of the surrounding tissues, which may cause the patient’s pain to be more serious. Heel spurs should be promptly consulted to clarify the cause of the disease and treated under the guidance of the doctor.