"Are Cortisone Injections Helpful?" you may ask. Cortisone injections despite all the hype have a terribly poor success rate! Yes that’s right for most people they are often in more pain after the injection than before!! 😣😣
Heel pain injections have been shown to be effective in as few as 30% of cases - yes and again some people after 3 months are worse! 😩😩
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I hope that helps. Make sure you head to our information below and our links to look up more information about heel pain, foot types, and other sports injuries. We look forward to making you happy, healthy and active.
Founder of A Step Ahead Foot + Ankle Care in Sydney, and former president of the Australasian Podiatry Council, Dr Brenden Brown (A.K.A Dr Foot) is a wealth of knowledge on how to take care of your feet, including how to find the best shoes.
* No medical treatment can guarantee 100% success. Registered medical and health professions in Australia are by law not allowed to guarantee success. This comes as a result of all human bodies reacting differently to treatments. Patients should thoroughly consider all treatment options available to them.
Heel pain is one of the most debilitating conditions that our doctors see every single day. Pain in the morning is common for people; first step and OUCH! Only to be relieved or Plateau and return later in the day! This makes treating heel pain effectively a necessity for many people.
Shockwave has become one of the gold standard treatments for heel pain. As one of the first clinics to adopt shockwave we have seen a rise in its use across other clinics and sadly not always successfully. The reason is often because well meaning practitioners who use this, use it as a stand alone treatment and NOT as part of a treatment plan to beat painful heels!
Plantar Fasciitis, Heel Spurs and Achilles tendinitis will all respond well to shockwave, however, alone as a therapy shockwave will only provide part of a solution.
Heel pain requires a treatment plan that incorporates multiple areas to be addressed from Footwear to foot posture, then to address both the soft tissue pain and then the tissue strength to balance it’s recovery and get patients back to happy healthy and active.
Sadly treating heel pain with shockwave alone will rarely see patient recover leading to more pain and frequently frustration!
Can We Help You in Treating Heel Pain ?
Our doctors are all qualified and registered Podiatrists that’s right foot doctors! Unlike other clinics who look after toe nails and callous or dry hard skin. Our team sees sports injuries like heel pain, multiple times a day!
If you’d like to beat heel Pain we would love to help.
Our clinic is located in Western Sydney, just off the M4 in Penrith. Our Doctors are registered with all major health funds, for health funds referrals are not necessary please contact us for details.
Appointments are NOT BULK BILLED however you may be able to claim some money through Medicare if your GP refers you to our team.
If you’re ready to get back to happy, healthy and active our team would love to help please call us on 9673 2987
Transcript
Frustrating mistakes Dr’s and other practitioners make when treating heel pain
Yeah, you know I think one of the most frustrating mistakes I see practitioners make is treating all heel pain like it's the one condition. The problem is if you continue to diagnose everything as fasciitis, and you also treat it in exactly the same way.
No one solution is perfect for all patients. Everyone responds to treatments differently and, Therefore, each person requires a care plan that’s individual to them.
I hope that helps. Make sure you head to our information below and our links to look up more information about heel pain, foot types, and other sports injuries. We look forward to making you happy, healthy and active.
Founder of A Step Ahead Foot + Ankle Care in Sydney, and former president of the Australasian Podiatry Council, Dr Brenden Brown (A.K.A Dr Foot) is a wealth of knowledge on how to take care of your feet, including how to find the best shoes.
* No medical treatment can guarantee 100% success. Registered medical and health professions in Australia are by law not allowed to guarantee success. This comes as a result of all human bodies reacting differently to treatments. Patients should thoroughly consider all treatment options available to them.
Why Your Feet are Getting Sore - Tendons hate change
So, beach days are just around the corner and you’re in a mad rush to get back into fitness so that you look at least semi amazing poolside.
Last blog we talked about people buying the wrong shoes for the wrong activity and how that actually leads to foot and ankle problems. What we need to talk about next is jumping into activity potentially too quickly or too intensely and ending up with an injury.
Most common injuries
The most common injuries that we see at A Step Ahead Foot and Ankle care as foot doctors, that’s right Podiatrists, is Achilles pain, heel pain or shin pain. These are often referred to as;
Plantar Fasciitis
Achilles tendinitis
Heel Spurs
Shin splints
All these can be super painful and while we like to think we will “walk these out” or a bit of ice will fix it. Many times that’s far from the truth.
How do the problems start
And important change in our understanding that has emerged over the last few years is our recognition that tendons don’t like change. They are a bit like your granddad in that way. Tendons are the soft tissue that attaches muscle to bone. A great mantra to remember and to keep you generally out of trouble is “Tendons hate change” let’s all say it again “Tendons hate change” and again .....
Where did I go wrong?
So, what does change look like to a tendon. The change we are talking about is you going from doing very little activity to deciding to start a Bootcamp every morning at 6 am. That hot young Trainer has you running up and down hills, stepping up and down off boxes and running shuttle runs till you feel like they are gunna fall off.
Now, to someone that has had a modicum of activity this in itself is not a problem, however if your activity over winter has been catching up on Netflix’s Stranger Things whilst eating popcorn and sitting under a doona on the lounge, you’re tendons are experiencing change that they are not used to and let us tell you they are not going to be happy about at all!
What’s happening to me?
Tendons often have two responses: The first response is to become angry and inflamed. The other response is to degenerate and create damage in the tendon.
To make matters worse tendons can decide to do both at the same time! Bullocks!! Generally though it will begin with the tendon inflaming and becoming very angry. Think back to your days as a kid watching cartoons and “The hulk” remember when he’d say “you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry”. Yup Tendons are gunna be the same!
What to do?
The first thing you need to do is graduate your progression into exercise. This means perhaps starting with two or three sessions in your first week, not five! Allow your body (in this instance tendons) time to get used to the activity and also some time to recover.
Now if it’s too late and you find yourself with the problem already? Try heading back to our earlier post about making sure you have the right shoes for the job!
In many cases you can also try icing the area in the initial stages particularly if you can see the obvious swelling of the area. There are many examples and resources you can head to whilst searching through the web. In general the best principle is to look at a regime of 20 minutes on and 20 minutes off of icing. For the first 48 to 72 hours. As a preference I like immersion in ice water perhaps we chat about how to do that in a future post.
What happens when it’s longer than a week?
If the injury goes on longer than a week and you don’t see progression it would be our suggestion that you had to see professionals like us at A Step Ahead Foot & Ankle care, did you expect us to suggest anyone else?
There are stacks of different therapies that are appropriate for these conditions. Ranging from heel raises to strength exercises, massage, shockwave therapy to assessing your walking or running mechanics just to name a few. Good therapists, yep like our team of highly trained foot doctors, will know which therapy is best for which condition. Plug plug plug ..... A good therapist will develop a treatment plan. They won’t just rely on one magical therapy or one single intervention cure. (Big tip here if they suggest a single intervention approach I’d be searching for another therapist)
If you’re not able to visit my team at Astepahead a step ahead foot and ankle care, say for example you’re reading this in New York or worse still the eastern suburbs of Sydney! (which for some reason seems to be further away than New York) And you need to find someone other than us. I have on my agenda to write another post that talks about what to look for, and how to go about finding and identifying awesome practitioners. And how you could go about identifying whether or not the practitioner is the right choice for you. So hold your hat that is coming up.
Again if you would like to visit myself all my team send you can contact us at the details below. Until then I hope you are happy healthy and active.
I hope that helps. Make sure you head to our information below and our links to look up more information about heel pain, foot types, and other sports injuries. We look forward to making you happy, healthy and active.
Founder of A Step Ahead Foot + Ankle Care in Sydney, and former president of the Australasian Podiatry Council, Dr Brenden Brown (A.K.A Dr Foot) is a wealth of knowledge on how to take care of your feet, including how to find the best shoes.
A Step Ahead Foot + Ankle Care has become the leaders in the field of Heel pain care, using innovative treatments.
Firstly, we provide upfront, “warts and all” advice! We will tell you what you can do and CAN’T do to get relief (loads of practitioners are too scared to tell you).
* No medical treatment can guarantee 100% success. Registered medical and health professions in Australia are by law not allowed to guarantee success. This comes as a result of all human bodies reacting differently to treatments. Patients should thoroughly consider all treatment options available to them.
Our Dr’s (Dr Foot) Names his favourite treatments for heel pain
I think I've actually got two most significant or treatments that stand out for me as a practitioner for heel pain. The two treatments that stand out for me; one being extracorporeal shockwave therapy, or shockwave therapy. The other being progressive muscle rehab or progressive muscle strengthening. Both of these really have revolutionised the way that we in the clinic treat heel pain.
For me, I've found that they've significantly decreased the amount of time that patients are in pain or suffering from this. From months down to weeks in many cases.
I think it's important to make sure that the people that are delivering this to your or helping you with this have a lot of experience because sometimes, using shockwave can actually increase your pain if it's not delivered in the right way. And I've also seen the same with progressive muscle rehab in that it's not progressive and it becomes incredibly dynamic with practitioners starting at too a high a level.
So, they're the two most improved treatments that I think that will work for you.
I hope that helps. Make sure you head to our information below and our links to look up more information about heel pain, foot types, and other sports injuries. We look forward to making you happy, healthy and active.
Founder of A Step Ahead Foot + Ankle Care in Sydney, and former president of the Australasian Podiatry Council, Dr Brenden Brown (A.K.A Dr Foot) is a wealth of knowledge on how to take care of your feet, including how to find the best shoes.
* No medical treatment can guarantee 100% success. Registered medical and health professions in Australia are by law not allowed to guarantee success. This comes as a result of all human bodies reacting differently to treatments. Patients should thoroughly consider all treatment options available to them.
Our Dr’s Dr Foot Names his favourite treatments for heel pain
Transcript
I think I've actually got two most significant or treatments that stand out for me as a practitioner for heel pain. The two treatments that stand out for me; one being extracorporeal shockwave therapy, or shockwave therapy. The other being progressive muscle rehab or progressive muscle strengthening. Both of these really have revolutionised the way that we in the clinic treat heel pain.
For me, I've found that they've significantly decreased the amount of time that patients are in pain or suffering from this. From months down to weeks in many cases.
I think it's important to make sure that the people that are delivering this to your or helping you with this have a lot of experience because sometimes, using shockwave can actually increase your pain if it's not delivered in the right way. And I've also seen the same with progressive muscle rehab in that it's not progressive and it becomes incredibly dynamic with practitioners starting at too a high a level.
So, they're the two most improved treatments that I think will work for you.
I hope that helps. Make sure you head to our information below and our links to look up more information about heel pain, foot types, and other sports injuries. We look forward to making you happy, healthy and active.
Founder of A Step Ahead Foot + Ankle Care in Sydney, and former president of the Australasian Podiatry Council, Dr Brenden Brown (A.K.A Dr Foot) is a wealth of knowledge on how to take care of your feet, including how to find the best shoes.
* No medical treatment can guarantee 100% success. Registered medical and health professions in Australia are by law not allowed to guarantee success. This comes as a result of all human bodies reacting differently to treatments. Patients should thoroughly consider all treatment options available to them.
Contact us at 9673 2987 with questions we want to truly understand what’s happening at present with your foot and leg pain if you are ready we will set up your initial appointment.
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