Cause Of Foot Pain And Reduce Foot Pain

Do you have any idea how many steps you take in a day? This is very easy to keep up with the pedometer on your mobile phone. Although we are moving less and less nowadays because we do a lot of sedentary work, we find it self-evident that we can walk everywhere.

During an afternoon stroll through the city, you quickly set out three thousand steps and an evening of dancing yields eight thousand steps! So if you have a foot ache, you just have a lot of problems with it.

What is the cause of foot pain?

Your foot consists of 28 bones and more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments. That is probably much more than you thought. Of course, everything can go wrong in such a complex network. There only needs to be something 'wrong' with one muscle that causes you to have foot pain and then other muscles will try to correct this mistake. An overloaded tendon is absorbed by muscles, so that you remain standing up. Your body is always looking for ways to stay in balance. A super nice system, right?

Although the body is so smart to find the solution itself to reduce foot pain by sparing the affected area, the problem is actually only moved. You develop an unnatural walking pattern and that can lead to hammer toes, calluses or an overloaded Achilles tendon. The overload can even manifest itself in a very different place in your body, so that you do not even have the link with the original foot pain.

First recognize the symptoms

The following points can tell you more about the foot pain you have and where it can point.

Sensitivity to touch, thickening and a hot spot may indicate bruising or breakage.

Irritation and/or pain as soon as you walk on shoes and do not feel pain when you walk barefoot? Then it seems that it is up to the shoes. Or does it hurt at all shoes you have? Then it looks like an injury. It can even be an ingrown nail.

Bulten on your toes. Maybe you have developed a hammer toe?

Pain under the heel of your foot and heel pain, especially if you have had a time or if you get up in the morning? That indicates heel track. You can reduce this foot pain with exercises and by wearing special insoles.

Reduce foot pain caused by hell spur

Under the foot from the heel bone to your toes, a so called tendon plate runs. That is the firm 'bond' you feel when you stand on your toes. This tendon plate is always stretched when you walk, run or jump. That gives considerable tension in the attachment to the heel bone. The bone membrane can become irritated and start to ignite causing calcification of the bone: heel spurs.

The best way to reduce this foot pain is to ensure that the tendon plate is not so under pressure. So rest your feet. Reduce foot pain and prevent heel spurs, you do by wearing special insoles. Because the main cause of this overload is overpronation. Overpronation is the sagging of the ankles inwards. Your foot tries to correct this, so the arch needs to work extra hard. The tendon plate is not resistant to this for a long time.

So an insole that has a sturdy heel shell, to support the ankles and an orthopedically designed elevation under the arch, so that your foot is placed in the right position, that reduces pain.

Of course you also run less risk of all other annoying symptoms that you can get as a result of a wrong walking pattern.

Prevent foot pain

You can also wear the insoles if you do not have a foot pain. That way you can prevent foot pain and you can enjoy your shoes anyway. Because the insoles you easily remove from your shoes to wear them in another pair.