Heel Pain? Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Risk Factorsand Prevention | Urdu | Hindi | Shahbaz Qamar from 3 common idioms for appearance Watch Video

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✓ Published: 24-May-2024

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Our feet can handle heavy stress but overstressing them can irritate the tissues of the feet that may lead to pain in the heel. Pain may be felt under the heel, behind it, on the inner or outer side of the heel varying from case to case. Ranging from mild to severe, the reasons for heel pain are variable. A common problem, some causes for heel pain are heel spur, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinitis and arthritis. Homeopathic medicines are highly effective in treating heel pain. Heel pain from inflammation of joints/tendons/fascia, high uric acid, bone spurs are curable with natural homeopathic medicines.<br/><br/>Causes of Heel pain<br/><br/> Heel pain can arise from various causes as follows:<br/><br/>1. Plantar fasciitis: Plantar fasciitis is the inflammation of plantar fascia that is present at the bottom of the foot. The plantar fascia is a tissue band that connects heel bone to the toes at the bottom of the feet. Repeated stress and strain on this fascia can lead to its inflammation. The pain in heel from plantar fasciitis is most marked when getting out of bed in morning on taking the first few steps.<br/><br/>2. Heel spur: Abnormal bony growth at the bottom of the heel from build up of calcium deposit. It develops from repeated stress over heel. Pain from a heel spur gets worse on walking and standing.<br/><br/>3. Achilles tendinitis: Achilles tendinitis is the inflammation of the Achilles’ tendon – a band of tissue that connects the calf muscle in the back of leg to the heel bone.<br/><br/>4. Rheumatoid arthritis: An autoimmune disease affecting the small joints of the body. It leads to inflammation, pain, stiffness and deformity (in very chronic cases) in affected joints.<br/><br/>5. Gout: It is a joint disease arising from high uric acid levels. When uric acid gets deposited in various body joints, it leads to marked pain, tenderness and swelling.<br/><br/>6. Sprains and strains: Thy result from excessive physical activity.<br/><br/>7. Fracture: Break in the bone is referred to as fracture<br/><br/>8. Heel Bursitis: Bursa is a fluid filled sac surrounding a joint that functions to reduce friction in the different structures of the joint when it moves. The pain may occur in the back of heel or deep in the heel.<br/><br/>9. Reactive arthritis: This is a type of arthritis (joint inflammation) that triggers from an infection.<br/><br/>10. Ankylosing spondylitis: An autoimmune joint inflammation disorder majorly affecting sacroiliac joint (joint at the base of spine and pelvis). In some cases it can affect back of the heel as well.<br/><br/>11. Tarsal tunnel syndrome: In this syndrome, compression of a nerve in the back of the foot leads to heel pain.<br/><br/>12. Haglund’s deformity: There is bony enlargement at the back of the heel occurring from rubbing of footwear or pressure on the back of the heel.<br/><br/>13. Osetomyelitis: Bone infection<br/><br/>14. Sever’s disease (Calcaneal Apophysitis): It occurs in children between age of 8yrs to 14yrs from repeated trauma to growth plate of heel pain.<br/><br/>Risk factors<br/><br/>Though anyone can get heel pain but certain factor