Help! I’m getting tired of this. I assume this is some sort of achilles tendonitis related thing. Right? Wrong? Any other ideas? What do you think it is? If I ignore it, will it eventually cause major problems? Any ideas of treatments?
Symptoms: Slight pain left foot, rear heel area. Tender to the touch, in a spot about 1" up and about 1/2" from the back, on the inside of the heel - not on the bottom of the foot - on the side at the base of the achilles tendon area. Except this “spot”, no other pains in the foot or heel. Doesn’t get worse, doesn’t get better - 8 months. I’ve given it a rest for a couple of weeks, tried different “cures” - stretching, weights, . . . More sensitive to the touch if my toes are pointed - like swimming or just flexing the foot to the pointed position. Almost zero pain sensitivity to the touch if the foot is in a natural flat position or especially if the toes are lifted - pulling muscles and tendons.
Is it directly on the back of your heal? Point pain. How does it feel when you are running? I am curious because I am having the same problems but have been trying to deal with it a long time. Every foot strike is like a jarring pain for me. I have tried stretching and PT(which worked for awhile) I have noticed that when I skip a day it hurts worse for awhile… Let me know how it works out for you…
Back/rear side of heel. Only ever so slight pain when running. I’m mainly concerned about it getting worse and/or causing a bigger problem. Yours sounds like more pain than mine. Is yours a fairly constant pain - at different levels of intensity? Sounds a little like a stress fracture possibility. I hope you can figure it out.
did you recently get new shoes? sounds like your heel may be sliding around in your shoe. i get what appears to be the same pain when i do not tie my shoes tight. if you snug them up and your heel still moves around someone( i don’t know who) makes little plastic heel cups (not orthodics) that you put in your shoe.
I wonder if you have Retrocalcaneal bursitis**?** Do a google search under this term and see if the symptoms fit but it sounds quite similar to what I have dealt with in the past. Icing, motrin, heel cup for lift and flexibility work (once the inflammation went down) worked. But it seems to hit just when you are trying to peak and don’t want to back off!
Retrocalcaneal bursitis is a good call, but not likey based on his chronicity (8 months). Likey have an enlarge bursal projection (i.e. Haglund’s deformity) causing some chronic irritation at the side of the Achilles tendon insertion. Simple X-ray and exam should reveal this rather easily.