A calcaneal fracture is a break of the calcaneus (heel bone). Symptoms may include pain, bruising, trouble walking, and deformity of the heel. It may be associated with breaks of the hip or back. It usually occurs when a person lands on their feet following a fall from a height or during a motor vehicle collision.
This condition can occur in the heel or under the forefoot and is a degenerative disorder of the fatty tissue in the foot. Fat pad syndrome or atrophy means that the cushion of fat underneath the ball of your foot has become thin or has moved. This fat pad provides support and shock absorption for your foot. As we get older this fat pad reduces and so does the cushion and support it offers which can lead to corns, callouses and foot pain to develop.
Also known as plantar fascial fibromatosis, plantar fibromatosis or Ledderhose’s disease; it is a relatively uncommonnon-malignant thickening of the feet's deep connective tissue, or fascia. In the beginning, where nodules start growing in the fascia of the foot the disease is minor. Over time walking may become painful due to characteristic nodule/bumps in this disease.
This disease is an inflammation of a thick band of tissue that connects the heel bone to the toes. Symptoms include stabbing pain near the heel, the origin of the plantar tendon plate or aponeurosis plantaris. Starting pain/complaints in the morning or after periods of rest are common in this ailment. For example, when you get up in the morning from bed or from a chair in which you have sat for a while. The foot then feels stiff and there is a sharp, stabbing pain under the foot, in the centre of the heel. The stabbing pain turns into a dull pain when walking. Sometimes the pain radiates to the inside or outside of the foot. Due to the location, it is often confused with heel spur.
A heel spur is a calcium deposit causing a bony protrusion on the underside of the heel bone. On an X-ray, a heel spur can extend forward by as much as a half-inch. Without visible X-ray evidence, the condition is sometimes known as "heel spur syndrome." Although heel spurs are often painless, they can cause heel pain. One out of ten people has heel spur, but from the people with heel spur just 5 percent has heel pain. Often heel spur is confused with plantar fasciitis, due to the location of both the spur and the plantar fasciitis complaints.
Capsulitis is a condition that causes irritation and inflammation of the ligament capsule at the base of the toes. While you can have capsulitis in any toe, the second toe is most commonly affected. This condition presents itself with; pain at the ball of the foot, pain that worsens when walking barefoot and swelling.
