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I have Achilles almost every day, and have had for a few yrs now. It started about 3or so yrs ago in my left heel first. About a yrs or so later, it started in my right heel, which now is the worst of the two! If I bang or hit them, I am in extreme pain. I am always stretching my heels out to try and keep them loose, if I sit too long with my tendons retracted, when I get up, I cant walk hardly at all and I am limping for some time.....I find I dont have full stepping motion with my right foot at all. I can have my feet up at home on the couch and out of the blue I will get a sharp stabbing pain in my right heel, with a burning feeling.....so Im not sure if I have what you are describing here or not.....can you help me with things to do?? Its very debilitating. I cant even go on walks with my wife, Im only 57
Did you end up getting some answers on your situation? I have something similar. But the more I walk, the better it feels and when I'm resting it seems to hurt more - especially right when I get up after resting - just on left foot.
This lady is good. Wish I'd found this video six months ago, having finally got to grips with my Achilles woes after six months or so. Most every aspect of the presentation matches what I had to learn the hard way, despite consultations with a couple of professionals & my own personal background in Healthcare!
Finally, someone who knows what they're talking about. my podiatrist told me to do calf stretches and that made it worse. I have a boot. Also got prp shots. Nothing's worked, but I can walk fine in heels
yeah that's the thing these days. You go to a professional 9/10 they are just like yeah antibiotics and have no idea what they are on about. I always do my own research until I am 150% certain just like this video.
OMG, I can’t believe the relief. I took your advice and wore heals for about 8 hours and it’s amazing how the pain is now at a level 1 from a 10. At first I could barely walk without holding on to something and limping. The pain was so bad when I walked. My pain was severe at a level 10 when walking. I did what you said, I put the heels on an immediately I noticed I wasn’t limping and had no pain when walking. After several hours I removed the heels and was able to walk with minimal discomfort, no limping. Thank you so much.
I usually don't comment on TH-cam videos, but I have to thank you for this information! I was diagnosed with achilles tendonitis, just a week before my big trip to Europe. It was painful to put any pressure on it, so I rested, tried to stretch, and massaged my achilles tendon. Not convinced any of this was working, I realized the issue was more localized to my my bursa. I found your video the day before I left for my trip, ordered heel wedges with same day deliver to put into my boot, and I immediately felt relief! I could finally walk without the aid of a crutch. Within a couple of days, I was walking without the boot altogether! Thank you so much for your video!
i made it worse by doing the calf stretching and tippy toes and realised that it will never fix permanently. i must have done something wrong until i found your video. Bought a 20 bucks heel and it was instant relief! made a lot of difference! it gets better day by day now. Thank you!
P.S. - I just read a bunch of the comments (my sentiments exactly, pretty much!) and I am writing to tell you you should get a Nobel Prize for this video alone! Thank you again - brilliant, excellent, and soooo helpful to soooo many! Bless you.
By far the best discussion of retrocalcaneal bursitis. Been to several orthopods, MRI, x-rays, mis-diagnosed for three years. Finally went to a podiatrist who did the diagnosis correctly. Thank you so much!
Thank you for this interesting video! Im a semi pro soccer player and according to the physio’s Ive seen I have an ankle bursitis.. At the Moment I have some important matches and I cant rest it for the next 3 weeks.. since you were mentioning to easy of the compression on it, are recovery boots good for it or no? Thanks!
Greetings from California. Thank you for this video. I had a couple bouts of pain in my heel/foot so bad it literally crippled me for weeks at a time. After x-rays and exams, a doctor AND podiatrist misdiagnosed me - plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendonitis. They gave me these calve stretches to do, similar to advice I’d seen on other videos (heel drops, wall stretches). They stressed arch support in shoes. I spent big money on orthopedic shoes. It kept coming back. Turns out I had heel bursitis (something no one had mentioned). I stopped the calf stretching and bought simple heel raisers on Amazon for less than 20 US dollars and it's worked like a miracle. Again, many thanks.
Thank you! I was at a loss for answers. My daughter, a nurse, pointed to Bursitis and I found this as a follow up. You have described my last three weeks to a ‘T.’ This was VERY helpful and I literally feel a little better just watching this. Nice job. Thank you.
Thanks to you I have finally figured out what is going on with my feet. My local doctors and foot specialists have been "treating" me for at least six years. They take x-rays, they change my diagnosis. They've done nothing that helps. I have gotten to the point of giving up and just putting up with the pain. Your video was amazing and opened up new ways of thinking about my foot issues. Your explanation of bursitis made sense to me. In preparation for a long walk to the supermarket, I found a pair of shoes (oxfords) that had a higher heel. I was skeptical at first but I managed to walk to the store and back home without the pain I usually experienced. I plan to get more shoes with higher heels. Thank you!
I would like to say a massive thank you for this video. It's made an amazing difference to the pain I was feeling. I stopped doing the calf stretches and now wear something with a small heel in the house. I will be forever grateful x
I keep seeing podiatrists and nobody is hearing me when I describe my pain and point out the big bump on the back of my left heel. I describe how it started after doing a long steep hike, that the tendon feels good, the pain feels like it's deeper or behind the tendon. This sounds like exactly what my problem is. I've been "treating" achilles tendinitis for 6 months with no relief. They're having me do stretches in the same direction that seemingly caused the injury in the first place, it hurts worse for a couple hours after I do the stretches. I feel like I'm being the annoying patient that goes on the internet and thinks they know better than the doctor, but I also know my body and there's been zero improvement over 6 months for "achilles tendinitis" .
i have been having the exact same issue. My podiatrist has been doing stretches and shit on my heel which seem to make it worse, but he seems to ignore me when i tell him this. Very frustrating
Same to mine im seeing a orthopedic send me to physical therapy with no relief,The more i stretch it the more it hurts its the bones on my heel,its hard to walk when i rested them and start walking it will hurt alot,,im on my 8th month with no relief
Dealing with the same issue here... doctor chalked it up as achilles tendinitis and I feel its something else due to the pain is deeper underneath the achilles tendon
This is the best and fullest set of information I've seen. Thank you. I have all that: Achilles tendonosis, bursitis, very high arches, torn tendons, and a ganglion. It's been 3 years of misery.
@@merarirodriguez2127 I wear hiking boots all the time. Keens. They give me support with no side pressure and slight heel. I also wear good think socks for cushion. Summer is a pain bc i can't wear sandals. I also KT tape the heels. Good luck, it's so hard not being able to do things.
@jewelofthenorth9719 i have been using kt tape on my ankle every day. I looked at a bunch if youtubes for it. It takes 2 strips. One cut in half then both pieces around the bursa and the other one whole piece around the foot and ankle. I use heel lifts from scholls too. It's bearable.
I just saw a podiatrist supposedly so called, they took x-ray he said it was a heelspur and he said it will get worse in time and I might need surgery but I didn't trust him . So I looked it up on you tube. It is exactly how I'm feeling 😪 now I know it's bursa. Thank you so much 💓 love you
me too,i thought it was achilles so i stretch it but the more i do that the painful it gets,to the point i walk in pain,so i tried wedge heels and it helps,still has pain,looking forward of pain free foot..and yeah ice helps alot
I had gained some weight over a few months after my COVID recovery. I started with sudden play of cricket where I made some urgent runs without any warm ups. It pained severely for a week & still 3 months down, I just have severe pain when I getup early in the morning & put my first few steps for when I've been idle for several minutes at office. Is this a bursa or a tendinitis?
Excellent and really helpful! I did notice pretty quickly that stretching the calf irritated it 😒. I will wait til the bursa calms back down before doing calf stretches. Thanks very much!
This video changed my life. I did everything to reduce my pain. i have spent so much money. But this lady changed without any expenses. You are a really great madam. Love you for your work. ❤️
Thank you so much for this very clear explanation-I have had this bursitis but it resolved. However have other chronic heel pain worse with running. Will check out you other videos
Thank you very, very much. Please keep doing what you are doing. It helps so many people like me. I finally got the correct diagnosis from you and not from my doctors who insist that I have achilles tendonitis.
Amazing really thank you very much for the illustration and if there is a video on how to differentiate between the bursa and Achilles tendinopathy that would be great
I've been in pain for three years! Been to a Podiatrist, PT for Dry needling! Shoe inserts nothing has helped at all!!!! Everything has been for the treatment of Achilles Tendinitis! Now I know what I have it's Retrocalcaneal Bursitis. It's so ugly and they are getting bigger. They burn so bad!!!I'm not a baby with pain I've had two children at home 100% natural. I have gone up two shoe sizes. Can't wear any church shoe. I'm going to do the ball roll and I need to get myself some toe strength. I need help!!!! I ordered the heel raises I pray they will help Thank you so much Sandy
Amazing. I had chronic retrocalcaneal bursitis in 2021. Had two steroid injections which helped but orthotics resolved properly. It’s come back recently so will do everything suggested. It makes sooo much sense !!
Bingo! Everything you said in this video is exactly correct! RCB is exactly what I have, but didn’t know it. I thought it was simply my Achilles until I went to the doctor and he said I had a classic case of retrocalcaneal bursitis. Then, it all made sense why nothing I was doing was helping. Pretty much all exercises and stretching only made it worse. What did I notice made it better? Wearing shoes with a heel! In fact, looking back on when it started hurting, I was doing two things. First of all, I had gone to a zero drop shoe, like Altras! What I know now that I didn’t know then is that you have to ease yourself into zero drop shoes. I didn’t… I went all in! The other thing I did wrong is that I did too much, too fast! I started walking/running nearly every day for 4 miles and that’s what brought on the bursa pain. I haven’t gone walking or running now for two months and I still have some pain, so I’m wondering if I do need a steroid injection. I also went out and got some of the highest drop shoes I could find. Brooks has some 12 mm drop shoes and I got two different pair. My doctor was right on with his diagnosis. He said the best thing for it is to rest it for about eight weeks and maybe use some icing for 10 minutes 2-3 times a day. But no stretching! Thanks for this great video!
@@sonpois: Oh man…I feel for you…especially if you’ve been dealing with it for years! How awful. Glad to say my Achilles and bursa pain are completely gone now. I never required any steroid injections or anything like that. I haven’t had any trouble at all since going to some of the highest drop shoes I could find (Brooks Ghost). They have one of the highest drops you’ll find (12 mm), and that made ALL the difference for me. Zero drop shoes are what caused all the trouble (and pain) for me. I was happy to move on from them…back to a regular shoe. I didn’t like the way the zero drop shoes looked anyway. I always thought they made me look like I was wearing my shoes on the wrong feet. 😂 I’m still amazed that something as insignificant sounding as “heel drop“ on a shoe could’ve caused all that trouble, but it certainly did for me. If someone is going to try some of the lower (or zero) drop shoes, you’ve got to ease into them. I didn’t want to mess with all that, so I simply went back to the kind of shoe I had worn all my life.
@@pocopico7409 thanks a lot for your insight. What brought it on for me is wearing basketball shoes that were too tight to the point where my heel was bleeding. Im addicted to basketball haha. So i just keep playing on it and never rest it for more than 3 days. Ive finally come to my sesnes.. Now its been two weeks without bball and i just ordered some heal raises to put into my barefoot shoes 😂 Thing is i need the toe space as i have wide feet so i refuse to go back to normal shoes Anyways hopefully that will help a bit. Meanwhile im hitting the gym and avoiding stretches. Thanks for your insight. I appreciate it
Plz Help me I am also going through Retrocalcanel Burstisis in which I have pain when I walk on toe and after walking on toe my leg becomes stiff for that day I also have Ankylosing Spondylitis doctor Said that it is happen due to it what Should I do I will be able to walk normal without pain in life or not
Great advice that really helped me resolve the problem. Prior to which, I was stretching the calf and exercising as advised by other TH-cam vids, only to re-start the inflammation/ pain cycle. The initial cause; couldn’t find my running shoes so went out in an old pair of trainers that had a tear in the inside right heal that rubbed against my heel, thought nothing of it to my peril. Thanks again!!👍
Thank you so much for posting this video. I am a letter carrier in Canada. I walk fast up to the hilly roads every day and I didn’t know what is giong on with my left heel pain, and also I land down off the truck with my left foot too much of the compression after 2 weeks my left hill ankle in pain because it could not handle the pressured compression. Now I understand because you showed us about this. Once again 1000 thank you Dr.
I had pain on the back of the heel and the doctor said that It was bursitis, but it was not healing at all! And they checked for gout, RA, etc. as well. For me, nothing was really working - icing, resting, loosening the calf muscle, light massage, etc. I had this pain for around 2 months, and finally, what worked was wearing a compression sleeve! There was like a rush of blood for like 2 mins and the pain vanished! Do try this if nothing else is going for you.
@@bozolito108 its like a sock with a cut out for your toes..and it comes up to your ankle - i got these..not advertising or anything but just so you get an idea. www.amazon.in/Just-Rider-All-Day-Compression-Fasciitis/dp/B07SZD6R7J/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=rider+pain+relief&qid=1628740765&sr=8-8
This is exactly what is going on. Thanks for removing the mystery of what happened and is still going. I changed my shoes that is almost a flat shoe. Going back the shoe with a heel. Thank you
Originally I had pain on the bottom of my heel, so thinking i had a bone spur, I stretched all the time. Did all the exercises for Plantar Fasciitis and my pain has become worse. Even my doctor said my calves were tight, that i had PF and told me to keep doing heel drops (off a step) Now, I have what I think is a bursa bulge, that is hot and red. I'm going to try your advice...thankyou....I'm so glad I found your video.
This is fantastic advice. There's a lot of misleading and confusing info out there. But the simple tips and ideas here have helped my bursitis a lot after months of frustration. Thanks so much!
Excellent video. Everything stated here is spot on. I was misdiagnosed with achilles partial tear and calcification, and had to go to a surgeon for a check up and second opinion, and luckily they did another scan and figured out it was the bursa. I got it from switching to barefoot shoes and overdoing it. Be sure not to make the same mistake that I did, and go for a second opinion if needed. 😊
Your video was very helpful. This morning I ran across some of the stretching videos you spoke of in your video. I did a few of them and thought to myself, this can't be good for it. So when you said you were concerned that people were posting the calf stretches for therapy, I was thankful I stopped when I did, but wished I hadn't done any of them. My foot is currently in constant pain. I will try your suggested approach to healing. Thank you for your video.
Summary of the clip and the comments before 23/07/2021: 0. Offload for days, weeks, and months. ICE! 1. Wear comfortable shoes - add heel & leave space on the back - shoes like Nike AlphaFly Next % or the Tempo Next % or Saucony Fastwitch 9/Saucony Kinvara help - (Addidas Ultraboost and Cascadia Brooks are crap - I wear ultraboost it does not help) 1.1 get a sheet of thick felt with one side that has adhesive on it. Cut it into bandaid sized strips and stick it above the point of pain (not over the painful area, just above it) so that the main point of pressure from the shoe to the heel is diverted away from the irritated area 1.2 do not wear flipflops or do barefoot walking 2. Do not "over" stretching, especially calf and dorsiflexion stretches, ease stretch, trainning, and exercise in gradually and slowly. 4. Can massage leg or foot using foam roller or massage ball, do not massage directly on the bursa. Avoid hills and walk/run fast. 5. Go to hospital for xray and MRI to see if the bursa is the real cause, sometimes feeling or even doctor diagnosis can be wrong. 6. Try anti-imflammatories or sugeries if not get better. Extra: I had it for 3 years for both feet. Recently I start driving and after about 3 months, the pain on my right foot went away surprisingly. I think doing mild exercise everyday helps blood flow around the area so it helps cure the imflammation. I bought some resistance bands starting do the same kind of "driving" exercise with my left foot gradually.
I do fast walking 3 times a week, wear Reebok walking shoes with special shoe insoles, had until now no problem with my feet, but for several week I've this pain on one foot. This video is very interesting, I'll wear shoes/slippers with heals and make break for fast walking, light exercise at home, yes blood circulation should be good, no streching.
How long did you offload it for? I've had this bursitis for 3 months now. It was getting better but I did some things and now I've been in bed for 2 weeks and can barely walk. In bed all day. The inflammation just doesn't want to go away.
Thank you for your explanation on this issue. I developed a pain on my heel due to werining flat shoes , and after talking to a friend that had this problem , I bought a pair of shoes souls to give me some protection , and after watching your video , I'm defenetly doing the right thing , The pain has decreased a lot . Thank you for your expert help .
Superb video thank you I started wearing shoes/boots with a bit of heal today and wow almost out of the woods having suffered from this for well over a month, my problem was wearing flips flops all the time throught the summer in the house and garden and not proper shoes, so massive thanks
Wowwww I was pushing a golf cart uphill hill and heard a pop in my heel I was so scared for surgery, after about 15 videos I finally found YOU this is the second one I've watched an now understand it fully. Thank you so much ma'am 👏👏👏👏🙏
Great video and explanation of heel bursitis. It is exactly what I have experienced for months - it was caused and exascerbated at work by the constantly getting on and off a tug hundreds of times a day to load and unload oversize items onto various carousels at the airport. The heel stretches I have been doing were not helping so I will cease these until the bursitis is better. Many many thanks.
I'm 59 years old, I have Gout since I was 45 yrs old, I lessed my gout attacks by switching my diet to vegan. I never had pain in my heel before, until I took antibiotics to treat an urinary infection, I did not know at the time but the antibiotic had given lab rats tendinopathy, when I learned that it was too late. I run and lift wheights twice a week. Runnig for me is ok, but now I can't squat or deadlift anymore, even with light wheights, if I do, I get back of the heel pain and swelling. I'm glad I found your video, cause now I know what to do to avoid bursa. Thank you very much.
You are by far the best physio on youtube. How do you know the difference between bursitis and insertional achilles? One other thing I found that helps with the rubbing of the shoe issue, is to get a sheet of thick felt with one side that has adhesive on it. Cut it into bandaid sized strips and stick it above the point of pain (not over the painful area, just above it) so that the main point of pressure from the shoe to the heel is diverted away from the irritated area.
After hearing you recommend heel lifts I started standing on my fore-foot to see if it would help my acute bursitis. I then started jogging in place with only my fore-feet, after a minute I definitely felt a strange relief, as if the pain dissipated from the bursa region to the Achilles tendon region. For the record, I did not get an official diagnosis of the acute bursitis, but judging but my the looks of my boots, the back of my heel has worn out the back of my inner lining. I hope this helps. I'll continue making deliveries, and thank you for making this video.
I have had xrays and MRI's and the opinions from 2 orthopedic specialists. One told me I had rooster heels (he was 80+ years old and had a serious case of gout himself), the second one looked at my MRI and told me nothing was wrong. My physical therapist has has me doing calf stretches on an incline box...OMG!! No wonder this is getting worse....It is so bad now that I have developed restless leg syndrome. Thank you for this video...wish I had found it sooner. I'm going to try all the suggestions for about 8 weeks to see if there is any progress and pain relief.
Thank you SO MUCH ! I came back from a vacation with a severe limp in my left foot, thought it was my Achilles, but it's Bursitis and it was caused from leaving my everyday heeled boots to sneakers while exploring a big city in europe by foot, Thank you so much for explaining what actually caused this load and pressure on my bursa, it makes so much sense now. Is there a way to avoid it in my next vacation without wearing heels? Does the foot and ankle get used to flats with minimal drop if used daily or will I always have to prefer heeled shoes if I have some sort of a tendency maybe to this Bursitis? Will it show up less if I will get used to walking more distances, like a muscle getting stronger?
So there are 2 important steps here: 1. First focus on getting your heel 100% happy before trying to get it used to flat shoes 2. Then yes, if you slowly spend more time in flatter shoes your body will adapt and it will not be a problem - it is when you suddenly make big changes that the body struggles to cope because it has not strengthened in that position. So get used to walking longer distances or just spending more time on feet in flatter shoes (but do it very gradually) and it should not be a problem.
Switched to flatter shoes when jump roping and now it makes sense. There was less ankle extension, therefore irritating the bursa. Now I know what to tell my podiatrist.
I’ve been trying to figure this out for a couple weeks and this is it. Bursa sac overworked caused swelling. I found Turmeric Vitamin C Quercetin Omega-3’s along with multi vit took the heat away and reduced the swelling. Now just not doing walking til it’s healed. You’re so right I was doing ankle exercises that felt good at the time but set it back and made it hurt worse after. It is so hard to stay off it as much as possible. Thank you so much for this incredibly informative video you explained it all so thoroughly !! Thank you again ❤️ and blessing’s Carolyn
I wore flipflops and did alot of barefoot walking at the water park last week and now my achilies is KILLING me. I've dealt with this pain in the past not knowing what it could have been. Thank you for the visual and break down
Same here. Since I retired and it's summer and started off hot, over 100 degrees in June! So it's been flip flops or flat slippers. The past few weeks my right A.T. made it so I cannot walk. The left is a little sore, but not as much.
That's happened to me too. I didn't realise the correlation until my Dr pointed out I came in with the same issue every Autumn, heel bumps and chronic pain. It was from walking barefoot all summer. At best I wore flat sandals and didn't realise the damage I was causing. I'm still struggling but now have just been given heel supports and wear slippers with support indoors which us helping. I'm hopeful at last!
I have flat fleet. I have pain near the bursa, the side heel part. Do you recommend arch support flip flop to wear at home or the flip flop with tilted heel - little high heel
Thank you so much, I had terrible pain in my left foot due to plantar fasciitis so I started doing dorsiflexions and it really helped. I did it on both foot and it worsened my bursitis on the right foot 😢 I know understood the reason of the pain and will use heels to dicrease it. I agree with the other youtubers, there seems to be only a little info on that subject and we patients do not know how to deal with it as well as doctors. Thank you so much for this video, God bless you 🙏
Thank you for the clarification. I'm a runner and lifeguard the beach in the summer. I've been having pain in my heels/achilles for 2 months now and it started on the beach. I know it was from pushing a 300lb lifeguard boat up and back daily through the sand (50meters) or doing 1 800 meter race on the hard sand for a lifegaurd competition barefoot...Ugh. I'm 34 and have been doing this job every summer for 16 years now. It has taken a toll on my body and I really need to take care of myself especially now that I've been back following a training plan so I can race again. I'm going to have to let this heal and do some strengthening exercises before I can consider doing speed work and racing.
I live your cautiousness and care in presenting treatment options! I kep my heel stretched and pressured in the worst position possible working and playing guitar for a year in a bad chair and rheumatologist rushed to blame it on my inflammatory predisposition (psoriasis). The orthopedist didn't have anything useful to say either, just gave me Vimovo which is a high risk anti inflammatory (heightened risk of heart attack at any time in the treatment even for those not predisposed). I'm so glad I found your video! I wish I could find something on swollen knuckles on your channel too, anyone you'd recommend to watch? Thank you!!
I’m glad you found this useful! Swollen knuckles may be linked to arthritis type stuff. Perhaps you can find some answers from Jack March - he is a physio who specializes in rheumatology rheumatology.physio/
Great information. I do a lot of hill running and occasionally experience pain on my heel. I could hardly walk due to pain for a few days after a run last week and this clear explanation makes me 90% sure bursitis was the cause. I can now look into treatments. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this information! This will give me a great place to start in healing my bursitis. I’m putting my injury down to wearing barefoot runners too quickly.
Injured myself in January, 2022. Started with a change from heel strike running to mid/front foot to avoid getting IT Band Syndrom in my knees. Worked great to move on from ITBS, but spawned achilles problems from what I figured was overused. Today is June 21st, 2022. Still experiencing problems. Symptoms included stiff ankle with reduced range of motion. Acute pain in the back of the heel when pressed. When not pressed, experienced a more dull pain throughout my foot/heel/leg. Went to rehab and P/T. Did an X-Ray almost immediately - and that was good enough to rule out Haglund's Deformity. Based on symptoms my P/T began treating for insertional achilles tendonitis. Calf raises / Heel Drops / Isometric holds - from the floor - seemed like it was helping. But, I was stuck on a cycle of having 2-3 weeks of feeling "okay" - followed by a flare up that caused me to stop walking for exercise for 2 weeks or so at a time. During that rest period I'd continue my calf raises / heel drops, ice the back of the heel several times a day, take NSAIDs for inflammation, and got myself into custom orthotics - with an additional heel lift for my shoes. (I overpronate badly which likely didn't help in bringing this injury on.) After 4.5 months of being stuck in this cycle - got an MRI on my foot/ankle. Achilles is 100% good - no tendonitis/tendonosis. But, bursa is absolutely swollen. They also noted I have an Os Trigonum, but, doesn't seem to be involved with the tissues that are impacted. With all of that being said - here I am almost 6 months from injury and had bursitis all along. I have stopped doing calf raises. I have stopped doing heel drops. I am doing my best to avoid dorsiflexion. I am still icing and taking NSAIDs. I continue to wear my orthotics 24/7 with my heel lifts. It's gradually improving. I am hoping I do not need a steroid injection. My doctor already said in advance they are "not that effective". I suppose I will need to get a 2nd opinion if things don't improve from here, now that I know exactly what is going on. I really wish MRI's weren't so expensive. If I could go back in time, I would have gotten an MRI a day after I hurt myself. By now, I'd probably be enjoying my summer. Have saved myself a ton of money, frustration. I don't hold it against my doctors or P/Ts. Without an MRI - all you can do is check for symptoms, and try treating for ailments one at a time and see what works or does not. Hopefully anyone out there suffering from this finds resolution. It very well may be worth getting the MRI for peace of mind so you know exactly what is going on. There is nothing more frustrating than doing the wrong physical therapy steps for 6+ months - only to find out in the end what was supposed to be helping you only has made things worse or slowed you down.
I knew I had heel bursitis all along but it just won’t heal on its own. It’s a very frustrating and long process. I’ve had bad flare ups multiple times.
@@lazyhusband Sorry to hear it. I've had an MRI, seen 3 doctors and have had 3 diagnosis now. 7 months in and now they think I have paroneal tendonosis. I got over the heel bursitis real quick with heel lifts, ice, and lots of Advil. It does suck. Im quickly developing major depression from all of this. It is starting to actually ruin my life. Im so ready to be done with this crap. No end in sight
This all makes perfect sense to me.. I noticed this pain after playing basketball w new shoes that have a very bouncy Zoom forefoot... my heel just wasnt ready for that spring back im thinkn.. really hopin I can work into em.
Thank you very much of this videos. 12 weeks totally rest of my heel (no stretches or pressure). Only walking a bit on Birkenston Boston (open heel) helps me recover from the inflammation. It was good you mentioned that it could take some month's. I finally can wear closed shoes and start my exercices little by little.
I have hugland's syndrome, I m badminton player and for 1 year there is lot of pain after playing. Restricting me to play every day, so I play in gaps of the day. I want to get rid of pain. How I can please advice.
You did a wonderful job describing this. I have bilateral heel pain that's in the cushion of my heels as well as the outter edges of my foot. Kinda like a horseshoe where it hurts. Even the slightest touch I can feel how tender. I was moving out of our apartment this past week, climbing up and down stairs in sneakers when normally I wear slide on shoes and my heels hurt others soft part on the back as well as the edges on the side. I know it's not my achilles cause no pain in my upper heels or ankle. I avoid pressing my heels all the way down. I made an appointment with a podiatrist, but since I'm a first time patient they can't see me until next week.
I've been rubbing on mine because my podiatrist told me it was probably insertional tendonitis. Inthink i'll take a break from that. because it hasn't gotten better
I went to bed the other night and I was fine. I woke up the next morning and I could barely walk. My right heel was just a red ball of pain. OMG. It is so painful now for the second straight day.
Thanks. Great constructive info. Been in denial for a few months about the pain. Realised I’ve been over stretching to try and solve the problem. Taking a month off running now plus anti inflammatories then re approach the issue. Thank you so much.
It is good when medical professionals like this talk in terms which even I can understand. Good and clear explanation of the possible causes too. Jerry
Thanks so much :) Got bursitis on both heels from being injured [ribs & knee] and then unable to exercise for several months. Now that I am walking again [and 66 y/o] both heels started playing up, but only when bending or laying/sitting reaching toward toes. Age does seem to have a major part in the injury as well... ?
I just picked up skateboarding and have been going pretty aggressively. The next day after a session I did some yoga and felt sharp pain in my heel doing a downward dog 😖. I will lay off it for a bit. Thanks so much!!! I think this will help.
Great exploration on this topic - some very helpful insights and tips that I haven't heard before and I've been suffering for a year from this and have been slowly figuring it out. For me, physio took care of the Achillies Tendinopothy well but only after seeing an Osteo have we been able to wake up my body up to start addressing the bursitis. Very targeted massage and manipulation seems to be the trick for me on this time.
thanks. learned more about my heal pain here than I have anywhere else. I've had chronic bursitis (I believe) for about 3 years now. It comes and goes. I will buy new shoes and avoid compression. sometimes I elevate. I've put on a lot of weight after turning 50; so maybe I need to lose weight. thanks again for giving me some insight.
I played volleyball on the national level during my youth. At 61 I still do regular exercises like running and resistance training most days of the week. I had bursitis attack for the first time ever just 3 weeks ago. Excruciating! My body has endured many injuries but this one is entirely new to me. Reading the comments here has made me hesitant to start exercising again. I'm just taking a break let it rest. No more pain now but the limping still prevails mainly from fear of it coming back
I'm 65, go for fast walking 3 times a week, It's the best exercise for me, than when I don't do it for 2 weeks, my body feels totaly different, but now I've this pain on one foot, stopped walking for a few weeks. I've started again and the pain cameback.
People around me almost don't believe me when I tell them the pain is unbearable. For me at least, it's not the kind of pain you can man up and put up with. It's more like a tooth's nerve pain, something you can just not endure. And that's happening every time I put weight on my food and want to walk, during the atacks. I've seen many doctors, I took Xrays, MRIs, Cat scans, and they all said the foot looks perfectly normal, while I was in agonizing pain. The worst is when I'm having it in both of my feet at the same time. It happened twice so far and one time when I woke up in the morning I had to pee in a bottle because I couldn't walk 3 meters to the bathroom.
Great point about shoes! Some running shoes have a very hard built-in plastic back of the heel which is really bad for bursitis. Changing my running shoes was a big part of reducing my heel pain. I still do have a slight bump on the back of my heel though. Do you think that bump will ever go away?
Actually before I never see this type of pain it is new for me .from I use my new Nike shoes my shoes back is very hard built I think it is reason for that
@@shalanegriffin2823 I changed to Saucony Fastwitch 9 and I could immediately feel the difference and my heel started feeling so much better! Later for longer runs I bought Saucony Kinvara which also feel great. On the other hand, before the change to Saucony, I tried a couple of runs in Addidas Ultraboost and Cascadia Brooks and both felt awful on my heel. It took a lot of trial and error to find the right kind of shoes, both the hardness / softness of the back part of the shoe as well as the height and position of the shoe's heel collar had big effect. In general I found shoes without a hard heel stabilizer and (surprisingly) shoes with a smaller heel drop work much better for me.
Do u think adidas sambas can have the same reason u got bursitis ? I remember I wore them for the first time and it was cutting into the back of my heel / Achilles tendon and idk why but I kept wearing them😅
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I have Achilles almost every day, and have had for a few yrs now. It started about 3or so yrs ago in my left heel first. About a yrs or so later, it started in my right heel, which now is the worst of the two! If I bang or hit them, I am in extreme pain. I am always stretching my heels out to try and keep them loose, if I sit too long with my tendons retracted, when I get up, I cant walk hardly at all and I am limping for some time.....I find I dont have full stepping motion with my right foot at all. I can have my feet up at home on the couch and out of the blue I will get a sharp stabbing pain in my right heel, with a burning feeling.....so Im not sure if I have what you are describing here or not.....can you help me with things to do?? Its very debilitating. I cant even go on walks with my wife, Im only 57
Did you end up getting some answers on your situation? I have something similar. But the more I walk, the better it feels and when I'm resting it seems to hurt more - especially right when I get up after resting - just on left foot.
This lady is good. Wish I'd found this video six months ago, having finally got to grips with my Achilles woes after six months or so. Most every aspect of the presentation matches what I had to learn the hard way, despite consultations with a couple of professionals & my own personal background in Healthcare!
Thanks for sharing!
Finally, someone who knows what they're talking about. my podiatrist told me to do calf stretches and that made it worse. I have a boot. Also got prp shots. Nothing's worked, but I can walk fine in heels
yeah that's the thing these days. You go to a professional 9/10 they are just like yeah antibiotics and have no idea what they are on about. I always do my own research until I am 150% certain just like this video.
OMG, I can’t believe the relief. I took your advice and wore heals for about 8 hours and it’s amazing how the pain is now at a level 1 from a 10. At first I could barely walk without holding on to something and limping. The pain was so bad when I walked. My pain was severe at a level 10 when walking. I did what you said, I put the heels on an immediately I noticed I wasn’t limping and had no pain when walking. After several hours I removed the heels and was able to walk with minimal discomfort, no limping. Thank you so much.
What type of heels did you wore if can share?
I usually don't comment on TH-cam videos, but I have to thank you for this information! I was diagnosed with achilles tendonitis, just a week before my big trip to Europe. It was painful to put any pressure on it, so I rested, tried to stretch, and massaged my achilles tendon. Not convinced any of this was working, I realized the issue was more localized to my my bursa. I found your video the day before I left for my trip, ordered heel wedges with same day deliver to put into my boot, and I immediately felt relief! I could finally walk without the aid of a crutch. Within a couple of days, I was walking without the boot altogether! Thank you so much for your video!
You're welcome!
i made it worse by doing the calf stretching and tippy toes and realised that it will never fix permanently.
i must have done something wrong until i found your video. Bought a 20 bucks heel and it was instant relief!
made a lot of difference! it gets better day by day now. Thank you!
You're welcome!
This lady is the real deal. Glad I found her. So many other videos were too general, confusing and in my gut seemed wrong. Thank you doc. Swedish ?
Glad you found it useful! South African.
How can you differentiate heel bursitis from insertional achilles tendinopathy? Do they occur at the same time? Can you have one without the other?
I’d like to know too
P.S. - I just read a bunch of the comments (my sentiments exactly, pretty much!) and I am writing to tell you you should get a Nobel Prize for this video alone! Thank you again - brilliant, excellent, and soooo helpful to soooo many! Bless you.
انا لا إفهم الإنجليزية ممكن تلخصيلي
By far the best discussion of retrocalcaneal bursitis. Been to several orthopods, MRI, x-rays, mis-diagnosed for three years. Finally went to a podiatrist who did the diagnosis correctly. Thank you so much!
How did your podiatrist tell you to heal it?
@@HookedUpEntertainmen 3 minute hot water/3minute cold water 3x. Start slow back to walking. I still can't get back to 90% normal.
@johnwilliamson9453 have you completely healed now?
@@ashrawichaman1221 I wish! 🙃 No, just refuses to heal.
Thank you for this interesting video! Im a semi pro soccer player and according to the physio’s Ive seen I have an ankle bursitis.. At the Moment I have some important matches and I cant rest it for the next 3 weeks.. since you were mentioning to easy of the compression on it, are recovery boots good for it or no?
Thanks!
That was the best medical video I have ever seen really thorough really informative.
And I really appreciate her demeanor.
🙏🏽Thanks so much for this info! Been dealing with this for almost 2 months now. 😵💫
Thank you for your support, and good luck with your recovery!
Greetings from California. Thank you for this video. I had a couple bouts of pain in my heel/foot so bad it literally crippled me for weeks at a time. After x-rays and exams, a doctor AND podiatrist misdiagnosed me - plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendonitis. They gave me these calve stretches to do, similar to advice I’d seen on other videos (heel drops, wall stretches). They stressed arch support in shoes. I spent big money on orthopedic shoes. It kept coming back. Turns out I had heel bursitis (something no one had mentioned). I stopped the calf stretching and bought simple heel raisers on Amazon for less than 20 US dollars and it's worked like a miracle. Again, many thanks.
You're welcome! Glad you found the video helpful.
Thank you! I was at a loss for answers. My daughter, a nurse, pointed to Bursitis and I found this as a follow up. You have described my last three weeks to a ‘T.’ This was VERY helpful and I literally feel a little better just watching this. Nice job. Thank you.
Wonderful!
Thanks to you I have finally figured out what is going on with my feet. My local doctors and foot specialists have been "treating" me for at least six years. They take x-rays, they change my diagnosis. They've done nothing that helps. I have gotten to the point of giving up and just putting up with the pain. Your video was amazing and opened up new ways of thinking about my foot issues. Your explanation of bursitis made sense to me. In preparation for a long walk to the supermarket, I found a pair of shoes (oxfords) that had a higher heel. I was skeptical at first but I managed to walk to the store and back home without the pain I usually experienced. I plan to get more shoes with higher heels. Thank you!
Wow I finally found information on my actual problem. Amazing video!
Great to hear!
I would like to say a massive thank you for this video. It's made an amazing difference to the pain I was feeling. I stopped doing the calf stretches and now wear something with a small heel in the house. I will be forever grateful x
Did it heal up
I keep seeing podiatrists and nobody is hearing me when I describe my pain and point out the big bump on the back of my left heel. I describe how it started after doing a long steep hike, that the tendon feels good, the pain feels like it's deeper or behind the tendon. This sounds like exactly what my problem is. I've been "treating" achilles tendinitis for 6 months with no relief. They're having me do stretches in the same direction that seemingly caused the injury in the first place, it hurts worse for a couple hours after I do the stretches. I feel like I'm being the annoying patient that goes on the internet and thinks they know better than the doctor, but I also know my body and there's been zero improvement over 6 months for "achilles tendinitis" .
i have been having the exact same issue. My podiatrist has been doing stretches and shit on my heel which seem to make it worse, but he seems to ignore me when i tell him this. Very frustrating
Same to mine im seeing a orthopedic send me to physical therapy with no relief,The more i stretch it the
more it hurts its the bones on my heel,its hard to walk when i rested them
and start walking it will hurt alot,,im on my 8th month with no relief
My doctors suggested cortisone for everything.
Dealing with the same issue here... doctor chalked it up as achilles tendinitis and I feel its something else due to the pain is deeper underneath the achilles tendon
@@wendell4963 bro when you feel pain?
When you bend your ankle down?
Like on toes?
This is the best and fullest set of information I've seen. Thank you. I have all that: Achilles tendonosis, bursitis, very high arches, torn tendons, and a ganglion. It's been 3 years of misery.
What have they done...Are you better wit the treatment (if any)? I'm in such severe pain.😭
@@merarirodriguez2127 I wear hiking boots all the time. Keens. They give me support with no side pressure and slight heel. I also wear good think socks for cushion. Summer is a pain bc i can't wear sandals. I also KT tape the heels. Good luck, it's so hard not being able to do things.
@@merarirodriguez2127 I'm in agony. I don't know what's what or what to do anymore. My whole foot throbs and can't hardly walk
@jewelofthenorth9719 i have been using kt tape on my ankle every day. I looked at a bunch if youtubes for it. It takes 2 strips. One cut in half then both pieces around the bursa and the other one whole piece around the foot and ankle. I use heel lifts from scholls too. It's bearable.
I just saw a podiatrist supposedly so called, they took x-ray he said it was a heelspur and he said it will get worse in time and I might need surgery but I didn't trust him . So I looked it up on you tube. It is exactly how I'm feeling 😪 now I know it's bursa. Thank you so much 💓 love you
Holy cow! I did not know there was a bursa sac here. That explains my pain. I thought it was Achilles Tendonitis. Thank you.
Same here
Same
me too,i thought it was achilles so i stretch it but the more i do that the painful it gets,to the point i walk in pain,so i tried wedge heels and it helps,still has pain,looking forward of pain free foot..and yeah ice helps alot
Same here
I had gained some weight over a few months after my COVID recovery. I started with sudden play of cricket where I made some urgent runs without any warm ups. It pained severely for a week & still 3 months down, I just have severe pain when I getup early in the morning & put my first few steps for when I've been idle for several minutes at office. Is this a bursa or a tendinitis?
Excellent and really helpful! I did notice pretty quickly that stretching the calf irritated it 😒. I will wait til the bursa calms back down before doing calf stretches. Thanks very much!
Glad it was helpful!
This video changed my life. I did everything to reduce my pain. i have spent so much money. But this lady changed without any expenses. You are a really great madam. Love you for your work. ❤️
You are so welcome
Thank you for your sound wisdom that actually helped instantly! God bless you!
You are welcome
Thank you so much for this very clear explanation-I have had this bursitis but it resolved. However have other chronic heel pain worse with running. Will check out you other videos
You are welcome!
Thank you Maryke. I have had this problem for long time and have seen so many clinicians, but nothing has fixed it yet. Great video though.
You are welcome
Thank you very, very much. Please keep doing what you are doing. It helps so many people like me. I finally got the correct diagnosis from you and not from my doctors who insist that I have achilles tendonitis.
I'm glad you found the video helpful. Good luck with your recovery!
Amazing really thank you very much for the illustration and if there is a video on how to differentiate between the bursa and Achilles tendinopathy that would be great
You're welcome!
The only way to differentiate is with an ultrasound or MRI scan.
Thank you for this! I only felt this pain during calf stretches and this all makes perfect sense. I will rest and get a better insert for my shoe.
You're welcome!
I've been in pain for three years!
Been to a Podiatrist, PT for Dry needling! Shoe inserts nothing has helped at all!!!! Everything has been for the treatment of Achilles Tendinitis! Now I know what I have it's Retrocalcaneal Bursitis. It's so ugly and they are getting bigger. They burn so bad!!!I'm not a baby with pain I've had two children at home 100% natural. I have gone up two shoe sizes. Can't wear any church shoe. I'm going to do the ball roll and I need to get myself some toe strength. I need help!!!! I ordered the heel raises I pray they will help
Thank you so much
Sandy
Good luck with your recovery!
Amazing. I had chronic retrocalcaneal bursitis in 2021. Had two steroid injections which helped but orthotics resolved properly. It’s come back recently so will do everything suggested. It makes sooo much sense !!
Thanks for watching!
I've had it for 3 months. Flared up 2 weeks ago and have been in bed since. The inflammation just doesn't want to go away.
Bingo! Everything you said in this video is exactly correct! RCB is exactly what I have, but didn’t know it. I thought it was simply my Achilles until I went to the doctor and he said I had a classic case of retrocalcaneal bursitis. Then, it all made sense why nothing I was doing was helping. Pretty much all exercises and stretching only made it worse. What did I notice made it better? Wearing shoes with a heel! In fact, looking back on when it started hurting, I was doing two things. First of all, I had gone to a zero drop shoe, like Altras! What I know now that I didn’t know then is that you have to ease yourself into zero drop shoes. I didn’t… I went all in! The other thing I did wrong is that I did too much, too fast! I started walking/running nearly every day for 4 miles and that’s what brought on the bursa pain. I haven’t gone walking or running now for two months and I still have some pain, so I’m wondering if I do need a steroid injection. I also went out and got some of the highest drop shoes I could find. Brooks has some 12 mm drop shoes and I got two different pair. My doctor was right on with his diagnosis. He said the best thing for it is to rest it for about eight weeks and maybe use some icing for 10 minutes 2-3 times a day. But no stretching! Thanks for this great video!
How are things now with your heel pain? Been dealing with this for years
@@sonpois: Oh man…I feel for you…especially if you’ve been dealing with it for years! How awful. Glad to say my Achilles and bursa pain are completely gone now. I never required any steroid injections or anything like that. I haven’t had any trouble at all since going to some of the highest drop shoes I could find (Brooks Ghost). They have one of the highest drops you’ll find (12 mm), and that made ALL the difference for me. Zero drop shoes are what caused all the trouble (and pain) for me. I was happy to move on from them…back to a regular shoe. I didn’t like the way the zero drop shoes looked anyway. I always thought they made me look like I was wearing my shoes on the wrong feet. 😂
I’m still amazed that something as insignificant sounding as “heel drop“ on a shoe could’ve caused all that trouble, but it certainly did for me. If someone is going to try some of the lower (or zero) drop shoes, you’ve got to ease into them. I didn’t want to mess with all that, so I simply went back to the kind of shoe I had worn all my life.
@@pocopico7409 thanks a lot for your insight. What brought it on for me is wearing basketball shoes that were too tight to the point where my heel was bleeding. Im addicted to basketball haha.
So i just keep playing on it and never rest it for more than 3 days. Ive finally come to my sesnes.. Now its been two weeks without bball and i just ordered some heal raises to put into my barefoot shoes 😂
Thing is i need the toe space as i have wide feet so i refuse to go back to normal shoes
Anyways hopefully that will help a bit. Meanwhile im hitting the gym and avoiding stretches.
Thanks for your insight. I appreciate it
Plz Help me I am also going through Retrocalcanel Burstisis in which I have pain when I walk on toe and after walking on toe my leg becomes stiff for that day I also have Ankylosing Spondylitis doctor Said that it is happen due to it what Should I do I will be able to walk normal without pain in life or not
Maryke, what a fantastic explanation. Thanks so much this is very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
This video is extremely informative and helpful. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Great advice that really helped me resolve the problem. Prior to which, I was stretching the calf and exercising as advised by other TH-cam vids, only to re-start the inflammation/ pain cycle. The initial cause; couldn’t find my running shoes so went out in an old pair of trainers that had a tear in the inside right heal that rubbed against my heel, thought nothing of it to my peril. Thanks again!!👍
Glad it helped!
Great help. Exactly what I wanted to know. Was stretching and now I know that’s wrong. 👍
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much for posting this video. I am a letter carrier in Canada. I walk fast up to the hilly roads every day and I didn’t know what is giong on with my left heel pain, and also I land down off the truck with my left foot too much of the compression after 2 weeks my left hill ankle in pain because it could not handle the pressured compression. Now I understand because you showed us about this.
Once again 1000 thank you Dr.
Thanks for sharing!
I had pain on the back of the heel and the doctor said that It was bursitis, but it was not healing at all! And they checked for gout, RA, etc. as well. For me, nothing was really working - icing, resting, loosening the calf muscle, light massage, etc. I had this pain for around 2 months, and finally, what worked was wearing a compression sleeve! There was like a rush of blood for like 2 mins and the pain vanished! Do try this if nothing else is going for you.
Compression sleeve? as in a full sock over the whole foot?
@@bozolito108 its like a sock with a cut out for your toes..and it comes up to your ankle - i got these..not advertising or anything but just so you get an idea.
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This is exactly what is going on. Thanks for removing the mystery of what happened and is still going. I changed my shoes that is almost a flat shoe. Going back the shoe with a heel. Thank you
You're welcome.
I have Haglund's deformity and am a bit sore - this video makes 100% total sense. I've been overstretching the soleus...
Thank you really helpful.....I didn't realise what I have....I will def follow up with this but now I feel a bit more relaxed about it
Glad it was helpful!
Originally I had pain on the bottom of my heel, so thinking i had a bone spur, I stretched all the time. Did all the exercises for Plantar Fasciitis and my pain has become worse. Even my doctor said my calves were tight, that i had PF and told me to keep doing heel drops (off a step)
Now, I have what I think is a bursa bulge, that is hot and red.
I'm going to try your advice...thankyou....I'm so glad I found your video.
This is fantastic advice. There's a lot of misleading and confusing info out there. But the simple tips and ideas here have helped my bursitis a lot after months of frustration. Thanks so much!
Did you fix it? If yes how
I believe I just found my answer here for suffering for a long time. Thank you.
You're welcome!
You explained it very well, currently I am going through this pain from a week.
All the best
Excellent video. Everything stated here is spot on. I was misdiagnosed with achilles partial tear and calcification, and had to go to a surgeon for a check up and second opinion, and luckily they did another scan and figured out it was the bursa. I got it from switching to barefoot shoes and overdoing it. Be sure not to make the same mistake that I did, and go for a second opinion if needed. 😊
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you. I was trying to stretch my calf through the pain and also massaging the bursa swelling. Now I can be confident in just letting it rest.
You got this!
Your video was very helpful. This morning I ran across some of the stretching videos you spoke of in your video. I did a few of them and thought to myself, this can't be good for it. So when you said you were concerned that people were posting the calf stretches for therapy, I was thankful I stopped when I did, but wished I hadn't done any of them. My foot is currently in constant pain. I will try your suggested approach to healing. Thank you for your video.
Summary of the clip and the comments before 23/07/2021:
0. Offload for days, weeks, and months. ICE!
1. Wear comfortable shoes - add heel & leave space on the back - shoes like Nike AlphaFly Next % or the Tempo Next % or Saucony Fastwitch 9/Saucony Kinvara help - (Addidas Ultraboost and Cascadia Brooks are crap - I wear ultraboost it does not help)
1.1 get a sheet of thick felt with one side that has adhesive on it. Cut it into bandaid sized strips and stick it above the point of pain (not over the painful area, just above it) so that the main point of pressure from the shoe to the heel is diverted away from the irritated area
1.2 do not wear flipflops or do barefoot walking
2. Do not "over" stretching, especially calf and dorsiflexion stretches, ease stretch, trainning, and exercise in gradually and slowly.
4. Can massage leg or foot using foam roller or massage ball, do not massage directly on the bursa. Avoid hills and walk/run fast.
5. Go to hospital for xray and MRI to see if the bursa is the real cause, sometimes feeling or even doctor diagnosis can be wrong.
6. Try anti-imflammatories or sugeries if not get better.
Extra: I had it for 3 years for both feet. Recently I start driving and after about 3 months, the pain on my right foot went away surprisingly. I think doing mild exercise everyday helps blood flow around the area so it helps cure the imflammation. I bought some resistance bands starting do the same kind of "driving" exercise with my left foot gradually.
I do fast walking 3 times a week, wear Reebok walking shoes with special shoe insoles, had until now no problem with my feet, but for several week I've this pain on one foot. This video is very interesting, I'll wear shoes/slippers with heals and make break for fast walking, light exercise at home, yes blood circulation should be good, no streching.
How long did you offload it for? I've had this bursitis for 3 months now. It was getting better but I did some things and now I've been in bed for 2 weeks and can barely walk. In bed all day. The inflammation just doesn't want to go away.
@@TheZod00is it gone bro
Thank you for your explanation on this issue. I developed a pain on my heel due to werining flat shoes , and after talking to a friend that had this problem , I bought a pair of shoes souls to give me some protection , and after watching your video , I'm defenetly doing the right thing , The pain has decreased a lot . Thank you for your expert help .
Glad it helped!
Superb video thank you I started wearing shoes/boots with a bit of heal today and wow almost out of the woods having suffered from this for well over a month, my problem was wearing flips flops all the time throught the summer in the house and garden and not proper shoes, so massive thanks
Wonderful!
Wowwww I was pushing a golf cart uphill hill and heard a pop in my heel I was so scared for surgery, after about 15 videos I finally found YOU this is the second one I've watched an now understand it fully. Thank you so much ma'am 👏👏👏👏🙏
Hello, I would like to ask if there is a way to understand whether we have heel bursitis or insertional achilles tendinitis on our own?
Not really - the only definite way to figure it out is an ultrasound scan or MRI
thanks a lot for your answer 🙏@@TreatMyAchilles
Great video and explanation of heel bursitis. It is exactly what I have experienced for months - it was caused and exascerbated at work by the constantly getting on and off a tug hundreds of times a day to load and unload oversize items onto various carousels at the airport. The heel stretches I have been doing were not helping so I will cease these until the bursitis is better. Many many thanks.
Thanks for sharing!
I'm 59 years old, I have Gout since I was 45 yrs old, I lessed my gout attacks by switching my diet to vegan. I never had pain in my heel before, until I took antibiotics to treat an urinary infection, I did not know at the time but the antibiotic had given lab rats tendinopathy, when I learned that it was too late. I run and lift wheights twice a week. Runnig for me is ok, but now I can't squat or deadlift anymore, even with light wheights, if I do, I get back of the heel pain and swelling. I'm glad I found your video, cause now I know what to do to avoid bursa. Thank you very much.
You are by far the best physio on youtube.
How do you know the difference between bursitis and insertional achilles?
One other thing I found that helps with the rubbing of the shoe issue, is to get a sheet of thick felt with one side that has adhesive on it. Cut it into bandaid sized strips and stick it above the point of pain (not over the painful area, just above it) so that the main point of pressure from the shoe to the heel is diverted away from the irritated area.
This is so wonderfully explained!!! Thank you so much! I came here coz I'm terribly suffering from Bursitis at the moment! Thanks again!
Hello, Is your bursitis cured? I think I have bursitis and I am looking for testimonials!!
Very useful info.
I have bursitis on both heel, I think it's caused by my shoe.
Should we put padding in the back of our shoes to help with this?
After hearing you recommend heel lifts I started standing on my
fore-foot to see if it would help my acute bursitis. I then started jogging in place with only my fore-feet, after a minute I definitely felt a strange relief, as if the pain dissipated from the bursa region to the Achilles tendon region. For the record, I did not get an official diagnosis of the acute bursitis, but judging but my the looks of my boots, the back of my heel has worn out the back of my inner lining. I hope this helps. I'll continue making deliveries, and thank you for making this video.
Was it your shoe rubbing against the back of your heel that caused the bursa pain? The constant friction and rubbing from the shoe?
This was life-changing! Thank u! I would have continued to stretch
You're welcome!
I have had xrays and MRI's and the opinions from 2 orthopedic specialists. One told me I had rooster heels (he was 80+ years old and had a serious case of gout himself), the second one looked at my MRI and told me nothing was wrong. My physical therapist has has me doing calf stretches on an incline box...OMG!! No wonder this is getting worse....It is so bad now that I have developed restless leg syndrome. Thank you for this video...wish I had found it sooner. I'm going to try all the suggestions for about 8 weeks to see if there is any progress and pain relief.
How are you doing?
Best explanation ever for bruised bursas. Very informative.
Thank you!
Thank you for your help,i am suffering a pain on that area atm,i am struggling to walk at work,portering job is not helpful as well.
Thank you SO MUCH ! I came back from a vacation with a severe limp in my left foot, thought it was my Achilles, but it's Bursitis and it was caused from leaving my everyday heeled boots to sneakers while exploring a big city in europe by foot, Thank you so much for explaining what actually caused this load and pressure on my bursa, it makes so much sense now.
Is there a way to avoid it in my next vacation without wearing heels?
Does the foot and ankle get used to flats with minimal drop if used daily or will I always have to prefer heeled shoes if I have some sort of a tendency maybe to this Bursitis?
Will it show up less if I will get used to walking more distances, like a muscle getting stronger?
So there are 2 important steps here:
1. First focus on getting your heel 100% happy before trying to get it used to flat shoes
2. Then yes, if you slowly spend more time in flatter shoes your body will adapt and it will not be a problem - it is when you suddenly make big changes that the body struggles to cope because it has not strengthened in that position. So get used to walking longer distances or just spending more time on feet in flatter shoes (but do it very gradually) and it should not be a problem.
Switched to flatter shoes when jump roping and now it makes sense. There was less ankle extension, therefore irritating the bursa. Now I know what to tell my podiatrist.
I’ve been trying to figure this out for a couple weeks and this is it. Bursa sac overworked caused swelling. I found Turmeric Vitamin C Quercetin
Omega-3’s along with multi vit took the heat away and reduced the swelling. Now just not doing walking til it’s healed. You’re so right I was doing ankle exercises that felt good at the time but set it back and made it hurt worse after. It is so hard to stay off it as much as possible.
Thank you so much for this incredibly informative video you explained it all so thoroughly !! Thank you again ❤️ and blessing’s Carolyn
I wore flipflops and did alot of barefoot walking at the water park last week and now my achilies is KILLING me. I've dealt with this pain in the past not knowing what it could have been. Thank you for the visual and break down
Same here. Since I retired and it's summer and started off hot, over 100 degrees in June! So it's been flip flops or flat slippers. The past few weeks my right A.T. made it so I cannot walk. The left is a little sore, but not as much.
That's happened to me too. I didn't realise the correlation until my Dr pointed out I came in with the same issue every Autumn, heel bumps and chronic pain. It was from walking barefoot all summer. At best I wore flat sandals and didn't realise the damage I was causing. I'm still struggling but now have just been given heel supports and wear slippers with support indoors which us helping. I'm hopeful at last!
I have flat fleet. I have pain near the bursa, the side heel part. Do you recommend arch support flip flop to wear at home or the flip flop with tilted heel - little high heel
Thank you so much, I had terrible pain in my left foot due to plantar fasciitis so I started doing dorsiflexions and it really helped. I did it on both foot and it worsened my bursitis on the right foot 😢 I know understood the reason of the pain and will use heels to dicrease it. I agree with the other youtubers, there seems to be only a little info on that subject and we patients do not know how to deal with it as well as doctors. Thank you so much for this video, God bless you 🙏
You're welcome!
I'm from India and I'm very happy to see this video. You have explained it very well. This video is very helpful for me. 👍👍
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the clarification. I'm a runner and lifeguard the beach in the summer. I've been having pain in my heels/achilles for 2 months now and it started on the beach. I know it was from pushing a 300lb lifeguard boat up and back daily through the sand (50meters) or doing 1 800 meter race on the hard sand for a lifegaurd competition barefoot...Ugh. I'm 34 and have been doing this job every summer for 16 years now. It has taken a toll on my body and I really need to take care of myself especially now that I've been back following a training plan so I can race again. I'm going to have to let this heal and do some strengthening exercises before I can consider doing speed work and racing.
Greetings from Oakland, California! Thank you for this informative and clear presentation. Just what I needed to learn for my heel bursitis.
I live your cautiousness and care in presenting treatment options! I kep my heel stretched and pressured in the worst position possible working and playing guitar for a year in a bad chair and rheumatologist rushed to blame it on my inflammatory predisposition (psoriasis). The orthopedist didn't have anything useful to say either, just gave me Vimovo which is a high risk anti inflammatory (heightened risk of heart attack at any time in the treatment even for those not predisposed). I'm so glad I found your video! I wish I could find something on swollen knuckles on your channel too, anyone you'd recommend to watch? Thank you!!
I’m glad you found this useful! Swollen knuckles may be linked to arthritis type stuff. Perhaps you can find some answers from Jack March - he is a physio who specializes in rheumatology rheumatology.physio/
@@TreatMyAchilles It's a minor sprain, it's starting to heal since I stopped bugging with it. I will see an acupuncturist too, thank you!!
Thank you so much for the tips.
May God bless you and guide us in straight path.
Excellent presentation! Thank you. Please comment on the usage of ice and/or heat. Much appreciated!
Great information. I do a lot of hill running and occasionally experience pain on my heel. I could hardly walk due to pain for a few days after a run last week and this clear explanation makes me 90% sure bursitis was the cause. I can now look into treatments. Thank you!
Glad you found it useful!
Exactly me too here
Thank you. This explains exactly what I’ve been experiencing.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for this information! This will give me a great place to start in healing my bursitis. I’m putting my injury down to wearing barefoot runners too quickly.
Can you have this bursitis with no obvious swelling? My pain is in that place but I don't see any swelling or anything odd except the pain.
It may rather be insertional Achilles tendinopathy: th-cam.com/video/mWUzsQILzWA/w-d-xo.html
Injured myself in January, 2022. Started with a change from heel strike running to mid/front foot to avoid getting IT Band Syndrom in my knees. Worked great to move on from ITBS, but spawned achilles problems from what I figured was overused.
Today is June 21st, 2022. Still experiencing problems. Symptoms included stiff ankle with reduced range of motion. Acute pain in the back of the heel when pressed. When not pressed, experienced a more dull pain throughout my foot/heel/leg. Went to rehab and P/T. Did an X-Ray almost immediately - and that was good enough to rule out Haglund's Deformity. Based on symptoms my P/T began treating for insertional achilles tendonitis.
Calf raises / Heel Drops / Isometric holds - from the floor - seemed like it was helping. But, I was stuck on a cycle of having 2-3 weeks of feeling "okay" - followed by a flare up that caused me to stop walking for exercise for 2 weeks or so at a time. During that rest period I'd continue my calf raises / heel drops, ice the back of the heel several times a day, take NSAIDs for inflammation, and got myself into custom orthotics - with an additional heel lift for my shoes. (I overpronate badly which likely didn't help in bringing this injury on.)
After 4.5 months of being stuck in this cycle - got an MRI on my foot/ankle. Achilles is 100% good - no tendonitis/tendonosis. But, bursa is absolutely swollen. They also noted I have an Os Trigonum, but, doesn't seem to be involved with the tissues that are impacted.
With all of that being said - here I am almost 6 months from injury and had bursitis all along. I have stopped doing calf raises. I have stopped doing heel drops. I am doing my best to avoid dorsiflexion. I am still icing and taking NSAIDs. I continue to wear my orthotics 24/7 with my heel lifts. It's gradually improving.
I am hoping I do not need a steroid injection. My doctor already said in advance they are "not that effective". I suppose I will need to get a 2nd opinion if things don't improve from here, now that I know exactly what is going on.
I really wish MRI's weren't so expensive. If I could go back in time, I would have gotten an MRI a day after I hurt myself. By now, I'd probably be enjoying my summer. Have saved myself a ton of money, frustration. I don't hold it against my doctors or P/Ts. Without an MRI - all you can do is check for symptoms, and try treating for ailments one at a time and see what works or does not.
Hopefully anyone out there suffering from this finds resolution. It very well may be worth getting the MRI for peace of mind so you know exactly what is going on. There is nothing more frustrating than doing the wrong physical therapy steps for 6+ months - only to find out in the end what was supposed to be helping you only has made things worse or slowed you down.
I knew I had heel bursitis all along but it just won’t heal on its own. It’s a very frustrating and long process. I’ve had bad flare ups multiple times.
@@lazyhusband Sorry to hear it. I've had an MRI, seen 3 doctors and have had 3 diagnosis now. 7 months in and now they think I have paroneal tendonosis. I got over the heel bursitis real quick with heel lifts, ice, and lots of Advil. It does suck. Im quickly developing major depression from all of this. It is starting to actually ruin my life. Im so ready to be done with this crap. No end in sight
@@xbadandy182x Have you looked into shockwave therapy?
This all makes perfect sense to me.. I noticed this pain after playing basketball w new shoes that have a very bouncy Zoom forefoot... my heel just wasnt ready for that spring back im thinkn.. really hopin I can work into em.
🙋🏻♀️ mareka.. do you have a video in planter fasilitis? I need it 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you very much of this videos. 12 weeks totally rest of my heel (no stretches or pressure). Only walking a bit on Birkenston Boston (open heel) helps me recover from the inflammation.
It was good you mentioned that it could take some month's.
I finally can wear closed shoes and start my exercices little by little.
You're welcome!
I have hugland's syndrome, I m badminton player and for 1 year there is lot of pain after playing. Restricting me to play every day, so I play in gaps of the day. I want to get rid of pain. How I can please advice.
You did a wonderful job describing this. I have bilateral heel pain that's in the cushion of my heels as well as the outter edges of my foot. Kinda like a horseshoe where it hurts. Even the slightest touch I can feel how tender. I was moving out of our apartment this past week, climbing up and down stairs in sneakers when normally I wear slide on shoes and my heels hurt others soft part on the back as well as the edges on the side. I know it's not my achilles cause no pain in my upper heels or ankle. I avoid pressing my heels all the way down. I made an appointment with a podiatrist, but since I'm a first time patient they can't see me until next week.
Thanks for sharing, and good luck with your recovery!
Thanks I think I have bursitis. My back heel is aching when walking right now. Few days ago...
I've been rubbing on mine because my podiatrist told me it was probably insertional tendonitis. Inthink i'll take a break from that. because it hasn't gotten better
Thank you! Got all my doubts clarified. I was mixing my pain for plantar fasicitus but it is actually bursitis.
You are welcome!
I went to bed the other night and I was fine. I woke up the next morning and I could barely walk. My right heel was just a red ball of pain. OMG. It is so painful now for the second straight day.
Got the same thing!
Same... I was fine yesterday but next day I Woke up with agonizing pain in the back of my heel...... The pain is beyond my limits😭
I had same thing. couldn't walk. Went to doc, they put me in a walking boot and pain meds.
Same pain i have suffering now
It's an epidemic! Me too. Wow up Saturday hopped on my feet & ouch! Been limping for 4 days & it comes & goes
Thanks. Great constructive info. Been in denial for a few months about the pain. Realised I’ve been over stretching to try and solve the problem. Taking a month off running now plus anti inflammatories then re approach the issue. Thank you so much.
It is good when medical professionals like this talk in terms which even I can understand. Good and clear explanation of the possible causes too.
Jerry
Thanks so much :) Got bursitis on both heels from being injured [ribs & knee] and then unable to exercise for several months. Now that I am walking again [and 66 y/o] both heels started playing up, but only when bending or laying/sitting reaching toward toes. Age does seem to have a major part in the injury as well... ?
I just picked up skateboarding and have been going pretty aggressively. The next day after a session I did some yoga and felt sharp pain in my heel doing a downward dog 😖. I will lay off it for a bit. Thanks so much!!! I think this will help.
Finally someone who makes sense!!!
Excellent video, very informative. Thank you so much
You're very welcome!
Great exploration on this topic - some very helpful insights and tips that I haven't heard before and I've been suffering for a year from this and have been slowly figuring it out. For me, physio took care of the Achillies Tendinopothy well but only after seeing an Osteo have we been able to wake up my body up to start addressing the bursitis. Very targeted massage and manipulation seems to be the trick for me on this time.
thanks. learned more about my heal pain here than I have anywhere else. I've had chronic bursitis (I believe) for about 3 years now. It comes and goes. I will buy new shoes and avoid compression. sometimes I elevate. I've put on a lot of weight after turning 50; so maybe I need to lose weight. thanks again for giving me some insight.
Best of luck!
I played volleyball on the national level during my youth. At 61 I still do regular exercises like running and resistance training most days of the week. I had bursitis attack for the first time ever just 3 weeks ago. Excruciating! My body has endured many injuries but this one is entirely new to me. Reading the comments here has made me hesitant to start exercising again. I'm just taking a break let it rest. No more pain now but the limping still prevails mainly from fear of it coming back
I am also facing same problem this pain is new to me just I took rest I didn't go running so now k I have a doubt on it will comeback further
how much gap from running is recommended.... I have been having this issue lately
I'm 65, go for fast walking 3 times a week, It's the best exercise for me, than when I don't do it for 2 weeks, my body feels totaly different, but now I've this pain on one foot, stopped walking for a few weeks. I've started again and the pain cameback.
People around me almost don't believe me when I tell them the pain is unbearable. For me at least, it's not the kind of pain you can man up and put up with. It's more like a tooth's nerve pain, something you can just not endure. And that's happening every time I put weight on my food and want to walk, during the atacks. I've seen many doctors, I took Xrays, MRIs, Cat scans, and they all said the foot looks perfectly normal, while I was in agonizing pain. The worst is when I'm having it in both of my feet at the same time. It happened twice so far and one time when I woke up in the morning I had to pee in a bottle because I couldn't walk 3 meters to the bathroom.
Great point about shoes! Some running shoes have a very hard built-in plastic back of the heel which is really bad for bursitis. Changing my running shoes was a big part of reducing my heel pain. I still do have a slight bump on the back of my heel though. Do you think that bump will ever go away?
Actually before I never see this type of pain it is new for me .from I use my new Nike shoes my shoes back is very hard built I think it is reason for that
Is there is specific running shoe that you changed to?
@@shalanegriffin2823 I changed to Saucony Fastwitch 9 and I could immediately feel the difference and my heel started feeling so much better! Later for longer runs I bought Saucony Kinvara which also feel great.
On the other hand, before the change to Saucony, I tried a couple of runs in Addidas Ultraboost and Cascadia Brooks and both felt awful on my heel. It took a lot of trial and error to find the right kind of shoes, both the hardness / softness of the back part of the shoe as well as the height and position of the shoe's heel collar had big effect. In general I found shoes without a hard heel stabilizer and (surprisingly) shoes with a smaller heel drop work much better for me.
my husband excises the plastic back of his running shoes . It helps him avoid more pain.
Do u think adidas sambas can have the same reason u got bursitis ? I remember I wore them for the first time and it was cutting into the back of my heel / Achilles tendon and idk why but I kept wearing them😅
Best video on the subject. Was able to figure out my problem and solve it. Thanx.
Glad it helped!
This is vital info. Thanks