When I have any shoes other than tennis shoes on, my heel feels like I have charlie-horses, mixed with a searing pain. When I don't have any shoes on, I occasionally get the searing pain, but mostly it is a very great sensitivity around my heel. With tennis shoes it normally isn't a problem, except when the tennis shoes aren't tight.
Any suggestions as to what's wrong with my heel?
2006-10-29 08:22:07 · 4 answers · asked by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
What you have is called "plantar faciitis," and it hurts like everything. I've warred with this for three years, so I know what I'm talking about. I walked at a theme park with my grandchildren for over two days in shoes that didn't fit right and, by the time we flew back home I was nearly crippled. I went to my family doctor, who made the correct diagnosis, but I recently found the treatment (which was costly and lengthy - and with virtually no results) was not the right one.
I recently (thank God!) met an orthopedic physician who showed me one simple exercise to do three to four days a week, and if you follow it you will be pain free. Please make sure you keep up with the exercise, or you will get in more, more and more trouble...and if you think your heel hurts now, you have not ex-perienced anything yet.
Stand about half a foot away from any table and lean into it with both hands. Then keep your bad foot where it is, and bring the good foot up to the base of the table. Then put the bad foot a bit further back and start a slow, very slow, stretch toward the floor. When you feel the "burn" in your calf (this condition is caused by guarded muscles (which are trying to keep any further damage to the heel area, and that have shortened and have become inflammed on the fascia - the surface that surrounds the heel underneath the skin), then very slowly, again, lower your bad foot's knee as far down to the floor as you can (without dying, of course!)...don't overdo, but don't under-do, either. Increase the distance to the floor as reasonably as you can with each repeat exercise, and you will be pleasantly surprised (as was I) how soon the pain resolves. Try it - you'll like it!
2006-10-29 08:35:39 · answer #1 · answered by sunflowerjean63 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it sounds like heel spurs or facititis. You can look it up online and get alot of excellent information and both treatable. Godloveya.
2006-10-29 16:37:46 · answer #2 · answered by Sassy OLD Broad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plantar faciitus-I had three cortisone shots for mine-no help.
Expensive orthodics solved my problem.
Hard to believe that they cost $300 + but they solved my problem and now I do not have o wear them at all.
Good luck!
2006-10-29 16:33:25 · answer #3 · answered by Alex Freaking Trebek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u have heelitis. a form of athritis or tendanitis.
2006-10-29 16:28:45 · answer #4 · answered by b.f. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋