how do you cure a heel spur?
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Treatment and Prevention\nThe key for the proper treatment of heel spurs is determining what is causing the excessive stretching of the plantar fascia. When the cause is over-pronation (flat feet), an orthotic with rearfoot posting and longitudinal arch support is an effective device to reduce the over-pronation, and allow the condition to heal.\n\nOther common treatments include stretching exercises, losing weight, wearing shoes that have a cushioned heel that absorbs shock, and elevating the heel with the use of a heel cradle, heel cup, or orthotic. Heel cradles and heel cups provide extra comfort and cushion to the heel, and reduce the amount of shock and shear forces experienced from everyday activities.\n\nIf the problem persists, consult your foot doctor.\n\nhttp://www.foot.com/info/cond_heel_spurs.jsp
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Oil 'em up. After soaking and rubbing, use a moisturizing cream to help keep your feet soft, says Dr. Stone. "I like vitamin E cream or vitamin E oil (not vegetable oil), which penetrates the skin very nicely."\n\nCushion the worst offenders. To lessen pain from soft corns between your toes, work a tuft of lamb's wool between your toes, suggests Dr. Stone. Lamb's wool is available at drugstores.\n\nPad 'em. Traditionally, adhesive-backed felt, called moleskin, was used as a doughnut-type pad around corns and calluses to take pressure off them. The women whom Dr. Stone treats seem to prefer a new synthetic material, Cushlin, available at most drugstores in Dr. Scholl's products. The material is thin, soft, resilient and rubbery. It doesn't flatten out and holds up well. Cut sheets of the material to pad around, not over, your corn or callus.\n\nBuy shoes that fit. Narrow shoes can contribute to corns and calluses; shoes with room for the toes are less likely to do so. To size up prospective shoes, says Nancy Elftman, a certified orthotist/pedorthist (a professional shoe fitter) in La Verne, California, trace your foot on a sheet of paper and take the paper with you when you go shopping for shoes. Then place the shoes you like on top of the tracing. If any of your foot tracing shows, the shoe is too short or narrow for your foot.\n\nLace up to save your toes. If you have corns on top of your toes, Elftman suggests lacing your sports shoes so that one lace goes from one bottom eyelet to the top eyelet on the opposite side. The other lace is alternated through the lace holes. Then, by pulling on the single lace, you can lift the toe box and give your toes more room. (This also helps if you have a long second toe.)
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I had this a few years ago. I wore splints on my feet to bed. The problem is that when you sleep your foot is not at a 90 degree angle as it rests. When you put your feet on the floor the tendon that runs from your heel to your foot bad stretches back to the 90 degree angle. Normally this isn't a problem but when it is irritated it hurts like someone is jabbing an ice pick into your heel. I wore the splints for about four months.\nI also did stretch the tendon a few times a day by standing on a stair, preferably one at the bottom. Edge your feet back until it's mainly your foot pad and toes left on the stair. Lower your weight moving your heels down a little, lift back up, then see if you can lift your weight up some too. Repeat about ten times a session, not if/until it hurts. If it hurts only do one occassionally and build up the stretch. This will increase the flexibility of the tendon. \nIf you need to be on your feet for a long time (like I did for my honeymoon) you can go to a Podiatrist and have steroid shots in each foot. This will help for about a month or maybe more. You could also do that now and still work on stretching and wearing the splints. I didn't wear my pumps during the ordeal but I'm back in them now and have been for quite a while.\nGood luck to you!
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You can try bone lengthening - that is by increasing the height of the femur bone (in your leg) by a few inches...but its quite painful, an you will need to be using crutches until it heals.\n\nThe best method is to use artificial methods, like heeled shoes
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I had heel spurs and went and got the nike shox. within a month they were gone. hang int here don't have surgery. try this first.
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There are quite a few home remedies on this site:\n\nhttp://www.otan.us/webfarm/emailproject/foot.htm\n\nGood Luck
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Well, you just need TIME.  Got any shoes that are too big...or borrow some...or send a family member to Target to buy some really soft  black slippers that look kinda like boots and will  be  barely noticable.  don't know of anything to speed up healing.
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I've had heel spurs two other times and it seems like it is coming back again. The first time I went to the doctor countless times and had shots in my foot. It was terrible and didn't really seem to help. It finally seemed to go away on its own. The second time I had a hs it took about 2 years to go away and i just waited. This time it seems to have come on from wearing flip flops and leather slide-in 2 inch heal clogs type shoes. I had deviated from my I Love Comfort shoes- flat with some arch support. I have been reading that stretching, ice and good arch support is crucial. Surgery? I wouldn't - my friend had it and she got hs again a few years later. For an old fashioned idea i had a lady tell me to cut a lemon in half and grind your heel into the lemon once or twice a day. I never tried it- maybe I will this time. Good luck and google for information too.
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sounds like a heel spur, had one years ago, go see a doctor had to have a few needles, try the link below
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Stand on a stair with the ball of your foot on the first step.  Let your heel fall down below the step then squeeze your calf muscle to raise it above the step.  Work the calf muscle till it is sore. Rinse, repeat every other night.\n\nOn the off nights, watch tv while standing on the sides of your feet.  Its kinda like standing on your pinkie toe.  raise and lower your body by the ankles while standing this way till the sides of your shins ache. Rinse and repeat.
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Ice it, keep off of it, keep it elevated, take some NSAID's.  (Non steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs)   If it gets worse, Definitely take it to a Doctor.  Take it to One now If you can't move your toes or foot, or if it hurts too much to put wieght on, or if it looks or feels bad enough to raise serious concern.  But if all it is is a Little swelling, don't worry about It To Much.  \n\nFeel Better\n\nUncle Mike
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see if you have heel spurs. ask your dr to xray and look. i know someone who had that and they had to get an operation to take them out.
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If it's a heel problem (on foot) then try some Bio-Oil and Flexitol heel balm. Also worth going for a pedicure to start things off. Good Luck
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You do not want to interfere with the peeling process. The skin that is coming off is dead and toxic to new skin. moisturize the new skin with something containing aloe or something like Vaseline intensive care. Take ibuprofen or tylenol for your pain. standard healing time will be 1 wk to 10 days. avoid direct sunlight until heeled.
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get rid of the shoes that caused them!\ndepending on the case, there r some steps that u might find helpeful:\n- if its big, old and ugly there's a special cream that kinda peals off the corn or more like burns it u can find it in the drug stores.\n- if its new and small and sore and red..soak ur feet for 15 minutes then carefully take a loafah or whatever -nothing too rough pls- and start scrubbing it off but gently.\n- u can try slicing a small tiny slice of tomato and putting it on it and put on it plasters just for a day or 2.\n- also if its new and hurts.. use a special jelly taht soothes the pain and hopefully gets it away, scholl is the best.\nhope this works!
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i'm sorry there is no cure. there are herbs that can help. if you would like you can contact me for information about them.
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I'm having hard time landing my heelfips, i'm regular footed. any suggestions. and oh yeah thanks for the 2 points. just leave response on "add details"