The heel is an important part of the foot. It serves as a support for a person, it is important for the process of walking, running. Therefore, even minor problems with the health of the heels cause considerable difficulty in movement for both children and adults. In this article, we will talk about the psychosomatic causes of various disorders in the condition of our heels.
What can happen?
The most common problem is cracked heels. They hurt, cause inconvenience and interfere with wearing shoes. Cracked heels look ugly and may bleed. When a secondary infection is attached, inflammation of a bacterial or fungal nature is not excluded. The second common cause of heel complaints is a heel spur. This ailment is accompanied by excessive deposition of mineral salts on the heel bone. A painful protrusion, a spike, forms that causes severe pain in the heel when walking.
Also, complaints about the health of the heels can be in people with gout and rheumatoid arthritis, flat feet, viral or hallux valgus. Evidence-based medicine has several ways to alleviate the patient's condition: local and systemic anti-inflammatory drugs are used, some problems are eliminated through surgery.
Psychosomatic causes
The method of psychoanalysis of diseases reveals other causes of heel pain. If evidence-based medicine is based on versions of metabolic disorders, being overweight and wearing uncomfortable shoes, then psychosomatic medicine examines some psychological and mental attitudes that also contribute to the development of "heel" ailments.
Psychosomatics regards a person's foot as a fulcrum, self-confidence, ability and desire to move forward through life. Any violations of the condition of the heels can indicate that a person has problems with self-identification, self-esteem, as well as with goals and ways to achieve them. Cracked heels are often associated with lack of determination and a high fear of mistakes along the chosen path. This problem is usually experienced by self-doubting people who have low self-esteem. They are often afraid to take the right step out of fear of losing what they already have, fearing that the consequences of the act will be negative.
A painful heel spur often develops in very stubborn people with unshakable ideas about life. Anyone who tries to convince such a person runs the risk of stumbling upon stiff resistance. Mistakenly, such people do not blame themselves for this, but others, but do not reconsider their actions.
Often they say about such people “step on the same rake”. The appearance of a heel spur is always a signal that a person's attitudes are wrong, he needs to show a little more flexibility in relation to different points of view.
A spur on the right heel indicates that a person is too despotic in relation to others. His demands on people go beyond reasonable limits. Pain in the left heel due to the formation of salt deposits suggests that a person puts too much pressure on his loved ones - children, spouse, parents. According to psychoanalysts, sometimes a spur develops in people who feel too strong a sense of guilt for some act that harmed loved ones.
Then the spur acts as self-punishment, it makes every step at the physiological level a painful reminder that you need to calculate the consequences of your decisions and actions. Spurs can torment a person with excessive deposition of calcium salts, but this happens to a lesser extent due to age or metabolic factors, and more due to a person's conscious refusal to move in front of, develop, change his mind, and acquire new knowledge and skills.
Who is affected by ailments?
Before compiling a psychological portrait of people suffering from a spur or other dysfunction of the calcaneus, psychosomats analyze a large number of case histories of patients of different ages. As a result, a list of the most common coincidences is formed, which may indicate the reasons for the development of problems. It was revealed that the heel spur most often develops in those who were strictly forbidden to express emotions in childhood. “Don't shout”, “don't cry”, “don't be angry”, “keep quiet” - such parental attitudes are very firmly fixed by the child's subconscious and in the future form the basis for the development of problems with the health of the feet.
Such people are quite tough, principled, not able to show true feelings. They often occupy leadership positions. Women often develop heel problems with a lifestyle borrowed from men - strong-willed, domineering, strong women often suffer from spurs or gout than feminine, gentle and do not try to compete with men in anything. Men with such a problem often have increased responsibility (professional or personal), and therefore they themselves do not allow themselves to relax, they rarely rest.
Treatment
To get rid of problems with heels, a person is advised to stop excessively patronizing loved ones, take on a large burden of responsibility, and also need to reconsider their attitude towards exactingness. Not only moderate physical activity and limiting salt intake are useful, but also moderate demands on others and reducing your own stress.
There is no need to be stubborn and refuse the treatment that evidence-based medicine offers. Only an integrated approach will eliminate the problem and forget about it forever. Specialists in the field of psychotherapy recommend to reduce emotional stress, reduce self-criticism and value judgments of others. If there are fears, it is better to consult with a psychologist in order not only to find the cause, but also to eliminate it correctly.
In the future, do not drive yourself into too strict limits of restrictions. This applies to all areas of life. By forbidding oneself to enjoy life, a person provokes an exacerbation of problems with the heels.
