January, 2018 |

Nerve pain is a difficult pain to live with. Nerve pain is also called neuropathic pain. Damage may also occur to nerves in your brain and spinal cord. It can also occur in the peripheral nerves, which are located throughout the rest of the body. Autonomic nerve damage may also produce the following symptoms: Inability to sense chest pain, such as angina or heart attack.

For someone it will be liking a stabbing pain in the middle of the night. For others, symptoms can include a chronic prickling, tingling, or burning they feel all day. Uncontrolled nerve pain can be so hard to bear.

Because of the nerve pain there can be a wide array of symptoms which may depend on the location and type of nerves that are affected Damage can occur to nerves in your spinal cord. It can also occur in the peripheral nerves, which are located throughout the rest of your body.

Sensory nerve damage may produce the following symptoms:

Pain
Sensitivity
Numbness
Tingling or prickling
Burning
Problems with positional awareness

In some instances, people with nerve damage will have symptoms that have damage to two, or even three, different types of nerves. For instance, you might experience weakness and burning of your legs at the same time.

Nerve pain is pain that is caused by damage or disease that affects the nervous system of the body. It is also known as neuropathic pain or neuralgia. Nerve pain is a pain that comes from problems with signals from the nerves. It is different to the common type of pain that is due to an injury. This is known as nociceptive pain.

Neuropathic pain is caused by a problem with the nerves themselves, which sends pain messages to the brain. Nerve pain is often described as burning, stabbing, shooting, aching, or like an electric shock.

If the nerve is compressed for a short amount of time, it is often able to repair itself but it may take several weeks or months for the symptoms to fully recover. However, if the compression remains present for a long time, permanent nerve injury may occur.

You may think the last thing you want to do when you’re in pain is get moving, but physical therapy can be an essential part of pain management. Our goal at SaraRehab is to help chronic nerve pain patients to become stronger, because they’re usually weak because of not moving. We at Sara Rehab a team of physical therapist work with each patient to understand his or her particular pain — what causes it and what can be done to manage it.

We want you to forget about your nerve pain and go through a full treatment from Sara Rehab and callus at 905 497 4550

A calcaneal spur (or heel spur) is a bony outgrowth from the calcaneal tuberosity (heel bone). Calcaneal spurs are typically detected by a X-ray. When the foot is exposed to constant stress, calcium deposits build up on the bottom of the heel bone.

A heel spur is a deposit causing bony protrusion on the underside the heel bone. By taking 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.”

Calcaneal spurs can be located at the back of the heel (dorsal heel spur) or under the sole (plantar heel spur). The dorsal spurs are often associated with spurs under the sole are associated with the apex of the spur lies either within the origin of the planter fascia (on the medial tubercle of the calcaneus) or superior to it in the origin of flexor digitorum brevis muscle. The relationship between heel spur formation, the medial tubercle of the calcaneus and intrinsic heel musculature results in a constant pulling effect on the plantar fascia resulting an inflammatory response.

The painful heel is considered relatively common foot problem, but calcaneal spurs are not considered as a primary cause of heel pain. A calcaneal spur is caused due to long-term stress on the plantar fascia and foot muscles and may develop as a reaction to the plantar fasciitis.

The pain, is mostly localized in the area of the medial process of the calcaneal tuberosity, is caused by pressure in the region of the plantar aponeurosis attachment to the calcaneal bone. The condition may exist without producing symptoms or it may become very much painful, and even disabling.

Most of the heel pain patients are middle-aged. Obesity may be considered a risk factor also. Not all heel spurs cause symptoms and are often painless also, but when they do cause symptoms people often experience more pain during weight-bearing activities, in the morning or after a period of rest. The pain, however, is not as a result of mechanical pressure on the spur, but from the inflammatory response.

As chronic heel pain is a common manifestation of so many conditions, these must be excluded before the planning treatment starts. Diagnostic imaging as well as medical signs is often used to differentiate some of the conditions that are mentioned below from calcaneal spurs.

Calcaneal spurs, both upper and lower spurs, are treated with conventional physiotherapy.

The heel spur pain is rarely permanent. Plantar fasciitis, the main cause of a heel spur, is reversible and very successfully treated through physiotherapy. Over 90 percent of people with plantar fasciitis or heel spurs improve significantly with physiotherapy treatment.

We at Sara Rehab are professional Physical Therapists who are educated and trained to administer interventions. We are skilled and do physical therapy methods and techniques to produce changes consistent with the diagnosis and prognosis.

We want you to forget about your Calcaneal spurs and go through a full treatment from Sara Rehab and call us at 905 497 4550