The main causes of heel pain are:
Calcaneal spur: more common in elderly patients. When heel pain occurs, it can be found that calcaneal spurs of different sizes are formed at calcaneal tubercle after X-ray. But clinically, it is found that bone spur is not the direct cause of pain, but the protruding bone spur is more likely to cause local tissue to be pulled by friction and produce aseptic inflammation. The degree of heel pain is related to the severity of local inflammatory reaction, but not directly related to the size of spur.
Plantar aponeurosis: Plantar aponeurosis is the plantar aponeurosis tissue that maintains normal arch, buffers vibration and strengthens bounce. Long-term walking and overload will cause plantar aponeurosis strain, leading to local aseptic inflammation and pain symptoms.
Plantar fat pad atrophy: heel pain in the elderly is more complicated. In addition to the above two possible reasons, there is also the atrophy of the fat pad itself of the elderly, which weakens the role of cushioning vibration and preventing friction, making local injuries and pains more likely.
Heel pain is often manifested in the first and second steps of getting up and landing in the morning, and can be gradually relieved after a few steps. There are two kinds of heel pain: one is true heel pain, which is confirmed by X-ray examination, and the other is false heel pain. X-ray examination is not caused by hyperosteogeny, with persistent heel pain and heavy leg fatigue. There is no correlation between these two kinds of pain. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, heel pain is a kind of bone arthralgia, which is mostly caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney and feeling cold evil.
Chinese medicine believes that heel pain is mostly caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney, phlegm-dampness and blood heat. Liver dominates muscle, kidney dominates bone, liver and kidney deficiency, muscle dystrophy, cold, wet or chronic strain will all lead to meridian obstruction, blocked blood circulation and muscle dystrophy. Pain on one or both sides of the heel, which is not red or swollen, and inconvenient to walk, is also called heel pain.
External application of traditional Chinese medicine. -heel bone prescription is easy to post. It can be relieved on the surface of heel muscle.
Heel pain is a common disease in the elderly, but now the incidence of young women is increasing year by year. Especially white-collar workers wear fashionable sandals and slippers to work, and their heels are exposed for a long time, so they are vulnerable to cold evil in air-conditioned rooms. After work, they are busy shopping and doing aerobics, and their feet can't get a good rest. Due to long-term heel compression, excessive exercise and cold, aseptic inflammation of heel fat fiber pad is caused, and finally pain is induced.