Does anyone know about heel spurs?
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Boy oh boy, are you ever lucky I read your question.
Medical doctors (podiatrists) know nothing about heel spurs except to cut them out, grind them down, or inject a disolving substance on your spurs (and your good bones by accident).
Go to your local college and talk to a PE teacher (preferably one with a doctorate degree (PHD). They spend their entire careers dealing with the stresses on our bones and malignacies associated with our bones.
The advice will be superb and the cost will be free.
PS: Depending on your age, you will probably need to wear a certain size and shaped pad, for a certain lenghth of time.
The PE teacher will actually examine your foot and heel to make his recommendation. ----- and, it is all free. --- And, it will make him happy to help you.
PS: as someone said above, rolling your foot on a soda can help alleviate the pain, temporarily. But it will make your spurs grow.
Bones not only grow from calcium, they grow from pressure. That is why weight lifters not only grow muscles they also increase their bone size.
I am a world class Racquetball player at age 63. I really know a lot about heel spurs and stone bruises. Guess what? Your heel spur may be a stone bruise in your heel. The Gym teacher at your local college will know for sure.
Is this some type of dominatrix thing? If so full steam ahead captain!
liike cowboy spurs?
Yeah. They hurt!
Go to a podiatrist, if they are causing you pain, you might have to have them cut out...otherwise, try some different shoes with better cushioning and support.
let us pray for a divine answer to the off-topic question
They hurt.
How is this an R&S question?
yeah. questions about them belong in the health category.
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...and this belongs in the R&S section how?
Yes, they are very painful. Usually the first step of the morning is the most painful because that tendon in your foot has been relaxed all through the night and now it's being forced to stretch all of a sudden. You can buy a sling for your foot to keep it in the stretched position at night, that will help some. You can also get a can of veggies (peas, corn, whatever) and put it under your foot. Sit on a couch and roll your foot back and forth over it. Also you should buy the special little donut cut-out supports for the heel of your shoes. Consider changing shoes (especially if you wear cowboy boots). If these things don't help, then you need to go see the doctor and have it surgically removed (unless you'd prefer to get a shot in the bottom of your foot). Hope this helps!
Yes I have them, but I got help from a doctor that treated them with "Active Release Technique." Check out this link to find a practitioner in your area.
They are basically made up of the same material as gall stones or kidney stones and can be dissolved by taking 5 hydrangea and 5 lecithin every morning and every night. Apple juice also helps to soften them and lessen the discomfort until they dissolve.
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