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Time to heal your heel pain with regenerative cellular treatment

For good health, daily exercise is essential at any age. Walking is considered an ideal physical activity. But if any part of your foot is in poor health, a vicious cycle of pain will get created. It can result in a lack of activity due to fear of pain. From this article, you can identify your symptoms if you are experiencing heel pain while walking. Also, you can learn about varied available conventional methods for heel pain.

When do your heels hurt?

When you get up in the morning with pain in one or both heels, and if it doesn’t go away by itself after a few days, there is a chance that you have developed, Plantar Fasciitis. You’ll feel heel pain while walking after a period of sitting down in a car driving or at your office desk.

Plantar Fasciitis is a strain, inflammation, and injury to the stretchy plantar fascia ligament. It spans the arch of your foot from the heel to the ball. When you sleep or remain seated for a long time, the ligament becomes still and cool. This, in turn, makes the pain worse when you first get up to your feet. As you begin to walk around, you will notice that the heel pain decreases. It is because the ligament has had a chance to warm up.

Temporarily a few minutes of walking can help to reduce the sensation of heel pain. You’ll notice that any attempt to walk or run any significant distance can make the pain worse. This can be a symptom of Plantar Fasciitis. It may also indicate a condition involving the tendon of the calf and ankle called Achilles Tendinitis.

If your daily walk is accompanied by a sensation of being jabbed in the heel by a small pebble, you may have developed a heel spur. It is a bony calcium build up on the heel bone. These protrusions can be pointed. It can be hooked or shelf-shaped and can prod into the soft, fatty tissue cushioning your heel as you walk. This, in turn, can cause moderate to severe pain.

In short, both morning heel pain and heel pain while walking are indications that you are having a physical ailment of the foot. It is not safe to ignore such symptoms as it can lead to further damage and increasing debility.

Breaking the cycle of heel pain

Ignoring heel pain and continuing to exercise can worsen a condition like Plantar Fasciitis. Your body will try to protect any part of the foot that has been injured as you walk or run. You’ll try to favour the ball in your gait instead of correctly distributing the impact of your steps from ball to heel. This will strain the damaged plantar fascia ligament as it stretches. Further, it will increase inflammation and small tears in the ligament tissues.

Finally, the heel pain will become so severe that you’ll have to give up exercise. In turn, you’ll put on weight, and there’ll be a greater risk for injuries to the ligaments and tendons of your feet.

It’s proven that more than 90% of plantar fasciitis can be heeled with conservative and at-home remedies. Only extreme cases need surgeries.

Ways to resolve heel pain

  • Rest – Take proper rest. Don’t do activities that can aggravate your heel pain.

  • Ice - Use easy heel icing methods and bring down inflammation and pain.

  • Compression – Wear an elastic compression bandage to prevent inflammation and swelling.

  • Elevation - Keep your feet up twice a day for 20 minutes to reduce swelling.

  • Stretching exercise – Perform heel stretching exercises and improve plantar fascia ligament.

  • Support – Try orthotic shoe inserts to bring substantial support to your heel.

  • NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) – NSAIDs can reduce pain and inflammation. However, its prolonged administration may cause serious complications.

  • Corticosteroid injections – Steroids help to give relief from pain. Still, it works only for a limited duration. Its repeated injection may weaken the place in and around the target area.

  • Surgery seems to be the last resort when the above methods don’t work. However, it’s time to try our regenerative cellular treatment before opting for the surgery. 

There are substantial reasons for you to opt for our Medica stem cell therapy:

  • Regenerative cellular treatment is a non-surgical, minimally invasive, same-day procedure. You will be completely conscious during this procedure. 

  • Unlike other methods, regenerative cellular treatment naturally repairs your damaged tissues. Furthermore, it can help you recover from the associated symptoms permanently. That too, within a short duration.

  • Regenerative cellular treatment prompts your healing mechanism using your own body cells. Hence, there is no possibility of rejection or allergy.

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is an

autologous blood-derived plasma fraction rich in platelet and growth factors,

which can promote tissue repair.

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is an

autologous blood-derived plasma fraction rich in platelet and growth factors,

which can promote tissue repair.

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is an

autologous blood-derived plasma fraction rich in platelet and growth factors,

which can promote tissue repair.

Contact Medica Stem Cells clinic in Ireland at 01 298 8000 or in London at 020 8 168 2000 to know more about our Medica Stem Cell therapy for heel pain. Remember, we also offer physical therapy and nutritional therapy to accelerate your healing process.
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