Heel pain
Anyone deal with a lingering heel bone bruise / heel pain for months after an injury?
Back in January I stepped wrong playing soccer and injured my heel. X-rays and MRI both came back normal/unremarkable. Podiatrist thinks it’s basically a heel bone bruise / stress reaction type injury.
Main symptoms:
- Pain directly under heel
- Worse after long standing/walking days
- Morning pain used to be bad but improved a lot
- Cushioned running shoes and heel cups help A LOT
- Flat shoes like Air Forces make it worse
- Light walking is usually okay now
- Huge walking days (Disney-level walking, work shifts, etc.) still flare it badly
I’m over 5 months out now. I improved significantly after stopping running and using heel cups, but every time I overload it for a week or two the pain flares back up again.
MRI and X-rays being clean is reassuring, but mentally it’s frustrating because I feel like I should be healed by now.
Anyone have something similar? How long did it realistically take before you could tolerate long walking/standing days again or return to running?