What methods can be used to treat heel pain?

In daily life, many people often feel itchy heels for no reason. Heel pain and heel itching are common diseases. Patients are usually accompanied by numbness and local tenderness, which will not only cause pain in walking, but also have a great impact on our exercise. Heel pain and heel itching can be treated with external application of Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is combined with Chinese herbal prescriptions, which can promote local blood circulation, relieve local orthopedic problems, reduce pain, and allow patients to have normal activities. More serious cases can be treated with Chinese medicine in combination with sealing methods. However, during treatment, attention should be paid to the use of medication to be more effective, and treatment must not be blind.

Treatment

Heel pain is a common condition. It is characterized by heel swelling, numbness and pain, local tenderness, and difficulty walking. Heel pain is also called calcaneal spur or calcaneal bone hyperplasia. In traditional Chinese medicine, it belongs to the category of "bone arthritis". The causes of the disease are mostly related to kidney deficiency, strain, trauma and exposure to cold and dampness in the elderly. To treat long-term or initial heel pain, choose Wuzhi Paste, a traditional Chinese medicine that can dispel wind and dampness, warm the meridians and dispel cold, soften and reduce swelling, and promote blood circulation and relieve pain, for external application and foot soaking. It does not damage the skin and has no toxic side effects.

TCM external application therapy

The traditional Chinese medicine external application therapy Wujin Paste uses black plaster as a carrier and has a series of advantages such as high content, slow precipitation speed, long-lasting effect, and effective local efficacy. Wu Jin Gao promotes local blood microcirculation, strengthens the body, improves physical fitness, and plays a role in repairing bone disease tissue, helping many patients who have been suffering from bone hyperplasia, bone spurs, and pain for a long time to get out of their predicament.

Chinese medicine treatment

Functions and indications: Heel pain caused by various reasons, various soreness, numbness, swelling and pain caused by heel spurs, as well as soreness or tingling pain in the soles of the feet and difficulty walking.

Closed treatment

You can get a blocking injection, which is quick and relatively cheap. First inject an injection at the painful point, and depending on the pain situation, you can give a booster injection half a month later. But the injection cannot guarantee a complete solution.

Young women should use it with caution as it is a hormonal drug that may cause menstrual irregularities for 2-3 cycles. It is best not to get pregnant within six months.

"The blocking injection is to inject drugs into the painful area to achieve the purpose of anti-inflammatory and analgesic, and relieve local muscle tension. The duration can be as long as several years or as short as a few weeks, depending on the severity of the disease. This is a symptomatic treatment measure that has a good effect on eliminating local pain symptoms.

Surgery

① Heel spur removal surgery: For patients with intractable heel pain and those with bone spurs confirmed by X-rays, an incision is made on the medial side of the calcaneus, the calcaneus is entered, and all the bone spurs on the medial side of the calcaneus are filed away.

② Calcaneus drilling: It is suitable for those with high calcaneal pressure. The purpose is to reduce the increased calcaneal pressure and treat stubborn calcaneal pain without bone spurs. The incision is still made on the medial side of the calcaneus. After reaching the calcaneus, 7 to 10 holes are drilled on the medial side of the calcaneus, with an effect of 90%.

③ Calcaneous nerve transection: This method can be used for unexplained intractable heel pain, but it is a destructive surgery that cuts the posterior tibial nerve branch and the sural nerve branch of the calcaneus.

④Calcaneous bursectomy: the bursa of the calcaneal tuberosity and the subcalcaneal bursa are removed.

⑤ Calcaneus osteotomy for flatfoot: The purpose is to increase the calcaneal angle through calcaneal osteotomy, straighten the everted calcaneus, and provide the calcaneus with a good biological scaffold.