How are heel spurs treated and why does this disease appear in seemingly he althy people? These questions are often asked by patients to their doctors. After all, the presented problem can bring great discomfort, as well as strong pain both at rest and while walking.
Reasons for appearance
Before you find out how heel spurs are treated, you should find out why this disease occurs. There are several opinions on this:
- overweight;
- longitudinal flatfoot;
- metabolic disorders;
- chronic or acute calcaneus injury;
- complication of a chronic disease (for example, Bechterew's disease or arthritis);
- impaired blood circulation in the legs (quite often occurs in people with poor patency of veins and blood vessels).
After finding out the true cause of this disease, all efforts should be directed to its elimination. After all, the answer to the question of how to treatspurs on the heels are unlikely to help you if you do not follow all preventive measures to get rid of the main problem. And only in conjunction with such activities will you forever (or for a long time) forget about this disease.
How to treat heel spurs at home
It is worth noting that traditional medicine has proven itself in this area only from the best side. Indeed, almost every third person who had such a nuisance got rid of it exclusively on their own. In order to understand exactly how to cure heel spurs, consider a couple of effective and efficient recipes:
- It is necessary to take 1 large spoon of honey, 50 ml of iodine, a dessert spoon of sea s alt and mix everything thoroughly. Next, the resulting mass must be applied to the bandage and attach it to the painful area on the heel. After that, cellophane should be put on the leg and tied tightly. This dressing must be left on overnight and removed in the morning.
- Spurs on the heels (treatment, reviews are presented in this article) disappear quite quickly from the following compress: you need to take a small cabbage leaf, grease it with honey, attach it to the heel, tie it with a bandage and put on a sock. This procedure should be carried out at night for at least 3 days in a row.
Medicine for heel spurs
- If folk methods do not help get rid of this problem, then you can treat this ailment with the help of pharmacy ointments and gels, whichpretty quickly cope with any inflammation in the joint (drugs "Kontraktubeks", "Dolobene"). As a rule, with the help of traditional medicine, heel pain disappears after the first week. In some cases, this disease is eliminated by injections into the affected area.
- Besides ointments and gels, heel spurs are treated through physical therapy. Such procedures include magnetotherapy, electrophoresis, laser therapy, shock wave therapy, etc. Despite the fact that these activities can be quite expensive, reviews about them are always positive. After all, such a physical effect on the spur gives a positive result (completely eliminates pain) after one or 2 procedures.
