However, these deposits occur in people with no complaints of pain when walking or resting in the heel area, and are random finding in the survey. Also, when expressed pain syndrome in heels on the radiograph can not see any salt deposits.
If worried about the pain in the heel area, it is better not to self-medicate. To eliminate the pain need to figure out the reason for his appearance. Consult your doctor orthopedist, rheumatologist or arthrology. Need to be examined to determine the cause of pain, to make X-ray diagnostics and blood tests. After that will be diagnosed, the options in this case there are several.
The most common cause of pain when walking are overloading or trauma ahilovogo tendon. Man complains of feeling "nail" when walking, burning sensation when trying to step on the heel. Such damage is caused by an overload of the tendon at long walking in high heels, with tendon injury in the past, on which a person may not even be aware. Overloading tendons is common in people with transverse flatfoot. Also, pain when walking can feel people with a history of injury calcaneus followed by inflammation of the surrounding tissues, such as jumping from a height.
In this situation, the doctor will recommend a complete rest for two weeks, appoint a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, massage with anti-inflammatory ointments and laser therapy. If the treatment does not work, additionally prescribe injections of hormones directly into the heel area or radiotherapy.
If, apart from traces of injury or overload tendons in the pictures found calcium deposits in the form of "spurs", then in addition to the inflammatory process, there are certain metabolic disorders. To eliminate them need to stick to a diet with restriction of salt, eliminate alcohol and spend purgation and liver. As a rule, compliance with all of the recommendations leads to the disappearance of such deposits.
Inflammation of the heel and severe pain when walking in people with chronic diseases of the joints. This patients with gout, psoriatic arthritis or Bechterew's disease. In such cases, carry out treatment of the underlying disease in remission of pain in the heel stop worrying.
There is another category of patients complaining of pain in the heel area, and not only walking, but also at rest. Often this occurs when reactive arthritis caused by infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, and so on. D. Inflammation in such cases extends to other joints, and the mucous membrane of the eye. Treatment is carried out in accordance with the agent, using antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs, and compresses Dimexidum on the heel area.