severe pain in heel of foot

Approximately a year ago I was wearing ballerina shoes very thin soles and ran up a gravel driveway and stood on a large stone in the middle of my heel. I have since then developed pain in the heel which seems to carry on if you press the sides of my heel or underneath it ? I at first thought i had perhaps broke my heel ? but it still wouldnt hurt now would it ???

ANSWER

Hi,

You need to go see a foot specialist. In a worse case scenario you may have broken the heel bone and I am concerned about that because you state when you press side to side the heel hurts; that is suggestive of heel fracture.
At the very least you may have nothing more than a bone bruise from stepping on the stone in the ballerina shoes. If that turns out to be the case, the problem with that scenario is that every time you take a step you are re-injuring the heel and it never gets better.
Heel pain can be very difficult to get rid of for the simple reason, as I just stated, just the simple act of walking never lets the injured heel get better and thus the pain continues.
My best advice to you is to make an appointment with a local foot specialist, have an x-ray, possibly even an MRI to see exactly what is going on.
You mention that you traumatized your heel a year ago. This pain can be now classified as chronic and chronic heel pain is generally more difficult to eradicate than acute heel pain.
The simple fact that a year later you still have pain is reason alone to see a doctor about your problem.

Marc Mitnick DPM
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