Prevention and treatment of heel spur at home
Health
The heel spur is an orthopedic acquired disease that occurs against the background of already existing problems, for example, trauma, inflammation or infectious processes.
Prevention of disease
Treating the calcaneal spur at home, andin medical institutions, it is not a matter of one day. Therefore, it is better to spend a little time on prevention, especially since it does not require special efforts and financial investments. So, preventive measures:
- Weight loss. This is for people who are prone to fatness, because the pressure on the foot - this is one of the root causes of development of the heel spurs. Proper nutrition, exercise and self-discipline are one of the preventive methods for preventing this disease.
- Footwear. For lovers of high heels, narrowed socks and other fashion favors: you need to periodically replace the beautiful, but not always comfortable shoes for equally nice and steady sneakers, moccasins and so on.
- Health. Flat feet, spine and joint diseases, infectious and inflammatory processes - all this can in no way be triggered to a chronic condition. Taking care of yourself and controlling the general health condition will save you from such a problem as treating the heel spur at home and in medical institutions. If, however, you did not manage to avoid the disease, and all the symptoms indicate its progress, you should immediately begin treatment.
Heel spur: treatment 
The price of treating the heel spur in medical institutions varies depending on the stage of the disease and the intended method of getting rid of it. There are several basic methods:
- Procedures: warming up, massages, special therapeutic gymnastics.
- Ultrasound or shock wave therapy. This is a fairly young method of treatment, it has been practiced for no more than 10 years, but now it has become an advanced method of combating the calcaneal spur. Its main advantages are the absence of age limitations and inpatient treatment. The principle of the method is quite simple: by acting on a certain area, the ray "kills" diseased cells without touching the healthy ones.
- Medicines. This method is aimed at anesthesia, the removal of inflammatory and infectious processes, the restoration of hormonal balance.
- Surgical intervention is an extreme method of treatment, when it is almost impossible to cope with other methods due to the strongest growth of bone or inflammation.
Treating the calcaneal spur at home
You can also treat a heel spur at home. Fortunately, people's recipes, passed down from generation to generation, are no less effective than official medicine. At home it is useful and effective to make baths, compresses, ointments.
Treatment spurs heel iodine - one of the mostaccessible and effective ways. There are several ways to use it. For example, a bath. Add a few drops of iodine to warm water and keep the heels in solution for 10-15 minutes. Pain from the disease will quickly recede, and with time will pass and internal inflammation. The second way is a compress of iodine and aspirin. To prepare the mixture, 6 tablets should be ground into powder and mixed with 50 ml of iodine. Apply this compound in the morning and evening for one month.
- Compress from potatoes. Pile a kilogram of tubers in the peel, drain and crush the water, adding kerosene. The resulting mixture (slightly chilled), attach to the foot, wrapped in a bag and secure with a warm sock. Similar procedures should be made at least 12 times.
- Plantain, cabbage, burdock - these plants tend to relieve inflammation. To do this, washed leaves are applied to the heel and fixed with a bandage. To change them it is necessary in process of withering.
- Radish black and carrots. The tubers of these vegetables are rubbed on the grater, slightly pressed to separate the juice. The resulting mixture is laid out on the bag and attached to the foot. Such compresses are done in the evening and left until the morning. </ ul </ p>
