Heel pain

[pineapple]

My training has been severely hampered by heel pain. Any advice?

[bushido_man96]

Take a rest. Start with a week off, and see how it goes.

[hawkfish]

Did you do anything to hurt it?

It could be a heal spur but without seeing a good foot doctor, it it too hard to tell.

Below is some info on heal spurs:

http://www.foot.com/info/cond_heel_spurs.jsp

[Jiffy]

This is fairly common when training on hard wood floors. Give it a week to rest and go back to training. If it keeps happening, speak to your GP.

[TigerDude]

Google plantar fasciitis. It is a very common ailment among the active. "Heel spurs" are more symptomatic than causal of most heel pain.

[RichardHangHong]

Did you do anything specific that may have caused it or is it just from training on a hard floor?

Rest if you can, but if you must train wear a foot/ankle support, neoprene ones are pretty good, I use them quite a lot when I need to.

[pineapple]

Did you do anything specific that may have caused it or is it just from training on a hard floor?

Rest if you can, but if you must train wear a foot/ankle support, neoprene ones are pretty good, I use them quite a lot when I need to.

There is nothing specific that I did to cause the pain except of course training.

[hawkfish]

Where exactly does it hurt? Is it the heal itself or more in the arch? Did it just start to hurt or have you always had the pain?

[pineapple]

Where exactly does it hurt? Is it the heal itself or more in the arch? Did it just start to hurt or have you always had the pain?

The pain is in the heel and it started two weeks ago.

[RichardHangHong]

Sounds like possible bruising of the bone. If you train on a hard floor with no mats then this is quite common in the early times of your training. Especially with high impact work. Rest it when you can, go easy on it when you're training (i.e. no stamping your foot on the floor)

Whenever we spent lots of time on certain katas we would get sore heels. We ended up calling it "Empi heel"