Are there any painful symptoms of bone spurs in the foot?

Bone spurs often grow in large joints, and many people also develop bone spurs in their small joints. Bone spurs often occur in the heel or foot joints. The incidence of bone spurs is relatively slow, but the main symptom is pain, which will be significantly aggravated when walking. The pain is unbearable during running and jumping. Bone spurs will affect normal activities. Therefore, in addition to understanding the symptoms, patients must also cooperate with medical methods for treatment in their lives. They should choose suitable shoes, wear soft and thick-soled insoles, and do foot exercises frequently to promote blood circulation in the feet. Try not to sit or stand in one posture for a long time, because this will compress the bone spurs, making it difficult to disappear or even larger.

What are the symptoms of heel spurs?

Heel spurs are usually formed on the basis of calcaneal spurs. The onset is slow. The main symptoms are heel pain that worsens when walking and inability to get out of bed. The symptoms can be relieved after a few activities. The pain points are located on the inner side of the calcaneus, under the calcaneus, and behind the heel. The side projection of the X-ray shows that it is actually bone hyperplasia. Therefore, using a small needle knife or surgical removal of the bone spur cannot eliminate the pain.

How to prevent pain caused by heel spurs?

Measures to prevent pain caused by heel spurs include:

(1) Choose suitable shoes. For young people, they should try to avoid wearing shoes with heels that are too high. Because high heels increase the burden on the feet, the plantar fascia on the soles of the feet tend to become tense and the tension increases, which can easily induce or promote the formation of "bone spurs". For middle-aged and elderly people, they should choose shoes with soft soles and loose soles to reduce friction between the soles of the feet and the shoes.

(2) Use thick and soft insoles: Thick and soft insoles can cushion the friction between the foot and the shoe and relieve pain. For those with obvious bone hyperplasia on the heels, in order to reduce pain, part of the thick insole can be hollowed out so that the "bone spur" does not come into direct contact with the sole.

(3) Reduce strenuous exercise that focuses on the feet: Strenuous exercise that focuses on the feet, such as jumping, running, etc., is a factor that induces heel pain. Therefore, those who do not exercise regularly should gradually engage in more strenuous exercise.

(4) Perform plantar flexion exercises regularly. Plantar flexion is to move the toes toward the sole of the foot, thereby tightening the skin on the dorsum of the foot. The typical plantar flexion movement is the performance posture of the Ba-Miao dancers standing on their toes. Plantar flexion exercises relax the plantar fascia and reduce its tension, which can relieve the irritation and damage of "bone spurs" to surrounding tissues, help to resolve aseptic inflammation, and thus prevent and relieve pain.