Achilles Insertional Tendonitis Retrocalcaneal Heel Spur

Achilles Insertional Tendonitis Retrocalcaneal Heel Spur Suffering with heel pain is not a way to live. Suffering with heel pain in the back of the heel that does not allow you to wear shoes with out the painful rubbing in the back of your shoe can be unbearable. The issue can present itself as a bump in the back of the heel that can feel like a burning sensation in the back of the heel. One may have a severe amount of pain when getting up in the morning. Your first steps can hurt a lot. X rays will confirm the presence of a spur in the back of the heel bone (otherwise known as the calcaneus). MRI will confirm if there are partial tears to the achilles tendon. There are meany treatments for this condition, it is referred to in the sports medicine field as Achilles insertional tendonitis with a Retrocalcaneal Heel Spur. Physical therapy can sometimes be a help and is worth a try. Steroid injections can be helpful as well. The goal with those therapies is to reduce the inflammation. If there are tears or a spur and the physical therapy does not help then there is a great surgical option. I have a significant amount of experience in surgical care of this condition. Patients are very satisfied when they have the area repaired. As with any surgery one can give no guarantees of outcomes. However most of the time the patients are very satisfied . The video above shows the surgery being performed by Dr Philip Wrotslavsky director of the Advanced Foot And Ankle Center Of San Diego. You will see the heel spur being removed with the achilles being repaired.