Do you have heel pain??

Do you have heel pain?

It’s several times a week that I see patients complaining of heel pain. Some of these individuals are young, active, healthy runners.

Others are laborers who are standing for very long periods of time, in shoe-gear that is ill fitting.

The one thing that they all have in common is they try to ignore the discomfort, carry on with their activities as though nothing is wrong, and do not seek treatment.

DON’T DO THIS.
PLEASE MAKE AN APPOINTMENT WITH A PODIATRIST.

I have had runners come in thinking they simply have a case of severe plantar fasciitis, and then a x-ray reveals a stress fracture in their heel bone.

Stress fracture on heel bone

If one were to continue being active on a fractured heel bone, they could very well cause a fracture pattern that previously did not need surgery, to end up being one that DOES need surgery.

This is why it is so important to be seen.

If you are having discomfort in your heel and it has not improved in a few days, you should be seen by a Podiatrist!

Some things seen in our office as a chief complaint of “heel pain”:
– heel bone stress fracture
– plantar fasciitis
– tubercle fracture of the heel bone
– achilles tendonitits/tendinosis
– subtalar joint arthritis
– painful spurring on the back of the heel
– achilles tendon partial rupture
– prominent peroneal trochlea
– retained foreign body

Some of these will respond very well to conservative measures, IF you are seen in time!

Please don’t wait, and PLEASE DON’T “push thru the pain”.

Sean E. Dunleavy, DPM

Talk soon, same time, same channel
Dr. Dunleavy – signing off.

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