Review on Purastep Silicone Heel pad - An Ankle Pain reliever
A short review on ankle pain reliever - Purastep Silicone Gel Heel Pad Socks for Pain Relief for Men and Women. But let's look at causes that produce foot pain.
What is Heel pain?
Heel pain is usually not caused by a single injury like from twisting of ankle or just falling, but it is more of less from repetitive stress that your ankle is taking and/or by repetitive hitting your heel on something solid like ground.
It can be caused from plantar fasciitis or heel spur syndrome, stress fracture, tendonitis, arthritis, nerve irritation and sometimes rarely from a cyst.
Common Causes of Ankle pain Include:
Plantar fasciitis means inflammation of plantar fascia which happens to be a band of tissues that runs from heel to the tip of your toes which produces heel pain.
This type of pain is often happens because of the way how your foot is, for example, if the arches of your foot is especially high or low.
When the plantar fascia stretched too far, the fibers becomes inflamed. This usually happens where it attaches to the heel bone, but sometimes it can also affect the middle of the foot.
Pain can be felt just under the foot, especially after long periods of rest. Calf-muscle cramps may also occur if the Achilles tendon (the muscle joining your calf muscles to your ball of your ankle) tightens too.
Heel bursitis: Inflammation can also occur at the back of your heel or the part of heel which slightly curves to form the ball of your heel.
This is where a small cushioning fluid filled like sac is present which is known as retrocalcaneal bursa. It can result from landing awkwardly or hard on your heels or it can happen from pressure from footwear.
The pain may be felt deep inside the heel or at the back of the heel. As the day progresses, the pain usually gets worse.
This is the condition where heel bone is rubbing too much with the shoe or footwear that causes something called as Haglund’s Deformity which actually results in the formation of "too much of bone".
It is often caused in people who are having flat foot or quite common in girls who are starting to wear high heels at quite young age and this is where the bone is not fully mature.
Tarsal tunnel syndrome: There is a large nerve in the back of the foot becomes pinched or entrapped (compressed).
This is a type of compression neuropathy that can occur either in the ankle or foot. This is quite common in people who have flat feet or people who have some kind ganglion cyst, varicose vein, arthritic bone spur, etc.
Chronic inflammation of the heel pad: This is caused either by the heel pad reduces in thickness and becoming too thin, or if one is found of walking with heavy footsteps.
The most common method to solve this problem is by using heel pad.
Stress fracture: This is linked to repetitive stress, strenuous exercise, sports, or heavy manual work. Runners are particularly prone to stress fracture in the metatarsal bones of the foot.
Severs disease: This is the most common cause of heel pain in child and teenage athletes, caused by overuse and repetitive microtrauma of the growth plates of the heel bone.
It most commonly affects children aged 7 to 15 years.
Achilles tendinosis: This is also known as degenerative tendinopathy, tendonitis, tendinosis, and tendinopathy.
It is a chronic condition associated with the progressive degeneration of the Achilles tendon.
Sometimes the Achilles tendon does not function properly because of multiple, minor microscopic tears of the tendon, which cannot heal and repair themselves correctly.
As the Achilles tendon receives more tension than it can cope with, microscopic tears develop. Eventually, the tendon thickens, weakens, and becomes painful.
Other causes of heel pain include:
- Achilles tendon rupture, where the tendon is torn
- a plantar fascia tear
- Baxter's nerve entrapment
- calcaneal stress fracture
- calcaneal cysts
- soft tissue mass
- short flexor tendon tear
- systemic arthritis (lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis)
- bone bruise
- problems with circulation
- poor posture when walking or running
- bone cyst, a solitary fluid-filled cyst in a bone
- gout, when levels of uric acid in the blood rise until urate crystals start to build up around the joints, causing inflammation and severe pain
- neuroma, or Morton's neuroma, when a nerve becomes swollen in the ball of the foot, commonly between the base of the second and third toes
- osteomyelitis, an infection of the bone or bone marrow leads to inflammation of the bone
Osteomyelitis may result from an injury or surgery, or the infection may get into bone tissue from the bloodstream. Symptoms include deep pain and muscle spasms in the inflammation area, as well as fever.
Peripheral neuropathy involves nerve damage, and it can lead to pain and numbness in the hands and feet.
It can result from traumatic injuries, infections, metabolic disorders, and exposure to toxins. Diabetes is a common cause.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a progressive and disabling auto-immune condition that causes inflammation and pain in the joints, the tissue around the joints, and other organs in the human body.
It usually affects the joints in the hands and feet first, but any joint may become affected.
SIDE FOOT PAIN
These may result from:
- a stress fracture
- a sprain
- cuboid syndrome, when a small bone in the foot becomes dislocated arthritis
- peroneal tendonitis, when repeated tension irritates the tendon
- tarsal coalition, a congenital foot problem
- bunions, corns, and callouses
- posterior tibial tendonitis, which results from stress and overuse
Most causes of foot pain are mechanical, related to strain, injury, or bone structure problems.
REVIEW OF PURASTEP HEEL PAD
What is Purastep Silicon Gel heel paid?
This is an Orthopedic silicone heel protectors.
What are benefits of using Purastep silicon Gel heel pad?
It helps protect heel bone from pain, pressure, fatigue and strain which would could help prevent thickening of ankle skin, helps keeping blisters, skin chipping, corn and cracked feet miles away.
Plus, it provides improvement in appearance by helping reduce fine lines of aging.
These socks can also be used with foot cream. You can also wear with socks and prevents ankle pain caused by poorly padded or worn down footwear.
After all no one wears a new footwear every day, daily weight pressure that you put on while walking or standing.
It gives heel pain and heel swelling relief. It has extra cushioning which is a good for shock absorption, it is anti-slip and breathable and provides comfort, stability.
It is reusable so it mean you can wash it in water with detergent powder and just to be dried in a shade avoiding direct exposure to sunlight. It is economic and hygienic.
It comes in free size and can be worn by anyone.
It has delicate inner lining, which would provide hydration that would help to repair dry, painful, hard and cracking of ankle or heel skin.
It has quite thick heel slip ons that would give ultimate heel comfort stability for firm foot-fall. reusable,economically affordable product with $$$, hygienic to wear under shoes or barefooted.
In case if there is any confusion regarding how to use then no problem you could easily find instruction on package.
Although, my personal opinion is that please do not wear this continuously.
Plus do not walk too much with wearing the product on your heel because it is soft delicate and may not be able to withstand outdoor walking.
Description:
It is an orthopedic silicone heel protectors. It protects heel bone from extreme pressure, fatigue and strain, prevents thickening of heel skin, keeps heel safe from blistering, chipping of skin, corn formation and cracking of feet.
How it helps:
It provides hydration treatment and repair dry, painful, hard and cracked skin on heels, provides improvement in appearance by helping reduce fine lines of aging.
These are like socks that can also be used with foot creams.
What kind of pain does it relieves?
It prevents joints and foot pain caused by poorly padded footwear, daily weight pressure, walking and standing.
Ultimate heel pain and heel swelling relief.
Features:
1. Extra cushioning.
2. Shock absorption.
3. Anti-slip.
4. Ultimate heel comfort.
5. Stability.
6. Reusable.
7. Very economical price.
8. Hygienic.
9. Uni-size (one size fits all)
10. Uni-sex (Both Males and females can use it).
11. Comes in different colors like beige, white, etc.
Features in few words:
It is one pair, two units, universal size, with most thickest heel slip ons for ultimate heel comfort stability for firm foot-fall.
It is reusable,economic,hygienic to wear under shoes or barefooted. It can be used while sleeping and that is something which you cannot do often with ankle support or crepe bandages.
Word of advice and things to look out for:
1. It certainly needs to be cleansed every now and then.
2. Do not wear continuously.
3. Manufacturer does advice to wear in nighttime and for 20-30 minutes, but I have used for a full day so I do not think there is any problem.
Price: (Click Here)
My own Review and Conclusion:
It certainly is a great product. The heel pad is thick. I did not have any sweating from wearing it.The inner layer is quite delicate, very skin friendly, relieved pain, and quite comfortable. Economical. Although, it certainly needed to be washed after 4-5 day use.
I would certainly recommend everyone to buy it as it can be really helpful.
