Walking
is one of the most important body movements that take place every single day. It
might be fast waking in form of running or slow one without any form of
discomforts and if there is going to be any; it should be very brief with
maximum of 4 hours. But when you are feeling pain in arch or bottom of feet whenever
you are walking or after you have walked a long or short distance constantly then
you are suffering from what medically known as arch pain or plantar pain. This
is caused by damage to any of body muscles, tendons, ligament or nerves as all
these are joined to bottom of the foot. In the article, causes, symptoms and
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Main
causes of plantar pain
There
are lots of things that can cause back of heel pain but the major one are as
following
- Plantar fasciitis – this is the tissue inflammation as a result of excessive workout. This occurs to the tissue that runs from toes to heel
- Standing on the foot for longer hours
- Diabetes or obesity
- Bad Footwear i.e. footwear which does not support all parts of foot
- Damage to tendons, ligament or nerves
Arch
Pain Symptoms
The major symptom of planter pain is pain in the
bottom of the feet. Asides this, the following are other symptoms you can be
feeling
- Inability to stand on toes due to sharp pain
- Increase in pain while walking on hard surfaces or with bare foot or when toes are flexed
Arch
Pain Treatments
The best way to cure heel pain is through exercises.
The following exercises are the ones being highly recommended to easily and
quickly cure arch pains.
Plantar
fascia stretch: This can be
effectively done by get yourself seated and bend your leg at knee and place one
leg over the other just as if you are doing yoga then hold toes with one hand
and the heel with other hand. Start pulling toes towards yourself slowly. Do
this for 15 seconds.
Rolling
Stretch: To do this exercise, make sure you are seated
then place your foot on a tennis ball. Start rolling the tennis ball forth and
back with your foot. Make sure you do this for at least 10 cycles
Kneeling
Stretch:
You can do this by kneeling down and try to fall on your back, support
yourself with your hand. Start moving your back toward ground till your bottom
touches your hell. Stay in this position for ten second then relax yourself.
Repeat it up to 10 times.
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Finally, you can still treat arch pain with change
of foot wear and RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation) method
provided it is a mild pains.