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What can runners do about pain at the back of the heel bone?

Haglund’s deformity is an bigger part of bone behind the heel is a annoying problem in athletes and is generally not easy to get over. The bigger area of the heel bone rubs on the footwear producing a bursitis as well as blisters. This bursitis can be very enlarged as well as painful. This irritated bursa has the name retrocalcaneal bursitis.

The only method to make the enlarged heel bone go away completely is with surgical procedures and that surgical treatment can include detaching the Achilles tendon at the insertion to access the calcaneus to cut out the enlarged bone and then re-attach the tendon to the heel bone. That is a big problem and involves a lot of rehab, so we prefer to avoid this if practical. With that in mind, it's a quite good choice in the long run if this is a continuing problem and the actions useful to help it are not working.

The ideal way to deal with a Haglund’s issue of the heel bone is to get pressure off of the painful spot and so the bursitis inflammation might go down. At times, a straightforward heel raise might be all that is required in some cases because this will move the painful area on the heel bone out from the irritating area of the heel counter on the athletic shoes. Podiatry self-adhesive felt can also often be used to create a doughnut shaped felt adhesive pad which goes around the painful swelling. This could be stuck in the shoe or to the foot. Other types of padding may be able to be stuck on the inside of the heel counter in the athletic shoes and keep the pressure off the bursitis allowing it to heal. Whenever the pressure is reduced for long enough, the swelling from the inflamed bursa may go down.

Regarding just what is the ideal running shoe for a Haglunds condition on the heel bone, right now there probably isn’t one, even with runners frequently inquiring online to get the best and getting a lot of advice for particular running footwear. Nearly all running footwear manufacturers make use of a different shaped last to manufacture their footwear on, so its a case of getting one that most accurately fits the contour in the rear of one's heel. Every runner's shape of their calcaneus bone is not the same, which means this is a difficult task. A running shoe having a soft, bendable and pliable heel counter will probably be a lot better than one having a more inflexible heel counter.

Several athletes try out a greater drop and a decreased drop running shoe and look for that one more than another does a more effective job at relieving pressure on the bump. Because every individual Haglunds bursitis is unique it is challenging to present particular guidance to an individual regarding what running shoe will match them better. Quite a few runners sometimes resort to chopping an opening in the counter in the running shoe to make certain that there is no pressure on the lump. If you want to do that, it would be good idea to try it initially with an older pair of running shoes in case anything might not work out.