Heel spur treatment with Vitaphone

Among various human health disorders, there are pathologies whose symptoms are not so much life-threatening as they bring unbearable suffering, greatly affecting the quality of life of patients. Such diseases include plantar fasciitis and heel spurs, which most often form against the background of this disease. A striking symptom of the latter is a piercing, sharp pain that occurs with any pressure on the heel. Treatment of heel spurs with Vitafon helps patients get rid of this pain and restore freedom of movement.

Heel spur and its treatment

A heel spur is an osteophyte that forms in the area where the heel bone and plantar fascia connect. Such growths usually occur due to inflammation of the tendon tissues of the heel (plantar or plantar fasciitis). And such inflammation can be caused by:

• Excessive loads on the legs (they are observed with heavy weight, professional sports, foot structure disorders, lesions of the spine and large joints).
• Traumatic injuries to the tissues of the foot in its back part: bruises, fractures, dislocations, jumping onto a hard floor, etc.
• Disruption of blood circulation and metabolism in the lower extremities.
• Narrow, uncomfortable, ill-fitting shoes.
• Neurological diseases.
• Endocrine pathologies, hormonal imbalances.
• Some systemic diseases in which the inflammatory process has a generalized (diffuse) character.
• Inflammatory diseases of the joints in the area where the leg and foot meet.

Long-term inflammatory processes and metabolic disorders lead to degenerative processes in the calcaneus (thinning of the periosteum, which is unable to restore itself). To hide the defect, the body sends calcium salts to the affected area. Over time, they accumulate in excess and form a growth resembling a spike bent inward.

The spiky growth itself cannot cause severe pain, because its tip is usually bent upward. But when stepping on the heel, a person presses its soft tissues against the protruding part of the bone, thus regularly injuring them due to strong compression and circulatory disorders.

At the point of contact between the heel spur and soft tissues, inflammation occurs, which is aggravated by the need to walk, run, jump or even stand. Severe inflammation and systematic trauma to the inflamed muscles and tendons causes acute pain, limiting the patient's ability to move.

Drug treatment of plantar fasciitis and heel spurs involves local (and sometimes systemic) use of drugs with anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects, blockades are performed. But if removing inflammation in plantar fasciitis actually means defeating the disease, then in the presence of a bone growth on the heel, the inflammatory process will occur again and again, so the therapy will not have a stable long-term result. Especially if we are talking about large growths, and even affecting nerve fibers.

It turns out that to effectively combat pain and inflammation in the heel, it is better to remove the spur. But a heel spur is a growth hidden under the thickness of the skin, muscles, fascia. Getting to it is not so easy. You will have to either open the tissue surgically or resort to more expensive methods of laser, radio wave, X-ray, ultrasound treatment and cryodestruction.

But again, the probability of relapse of the disease when using any method of removing the growth remains, i.e. there is a need to undergo a second course of treatment.

The risk of relapse of the disease can be reduced by adjusting your lifestyle and diet, as well as by limiting the load on your feet and starting to use special orthopedic insoles and shoes.

Physiotherapy plays a major role in the treatment and prevention of heel spur relapses. Some procedures help fight inflammation and pain, while others are able to use physical phenomena to affect the heel in such a way as to restore the impaired blood supply and lymph flow in the tissues, facilitating their rapid recovery. If such restorative procedures are carried out regularly, the pathological growth is destroyed and resorbed.

In the second case, the use of special medical devices is indicative, one of which is "Vitafon". Treatment of heel spurs with "Vitafon" resembles a therapeutic massage, but the effect will be deeper, and in addition, you will not have to resort to the help of qualified specialists.

Indications for the procedure

"Vitafon" is a patented portable medical device that allows you to perform medical procedures at home without the need for medical education. Humanity first heard about this device not so long ago (in 1994) and since then it has been actively used in medical institutions, preventive centers and even in cosmetology rooms. Over time, people appreciated the ease of use and the benefits of this small device and began to purchase it for home use.

At first glance, it may seem that the price of the device is too high (from 1000 UAH and up, depending on the model), but after studying all the possibilities of using the device, you can understand how profitable such a purchase can be, which helps restore health in the following pathologies:

• vascular disorders (helps to correct blood pressure, stimulates blood circulation, increases blood flow through the vessels),
• all kinds of injuries (promotes acceleration and increased efficiency of recovery processes),
• radiculitis, osteochondrosis,
• pathologies of the nervous system (normalizes nerve conduction, improves trophism of nerve fibers),
• diseases accompanied by edema syndrome (for example, it helps restore kidney function),
• plantar fasciitis and heel spurs (helps restore damaged tissues, relieving inflammation and swelling, improving blood circulation and nutrition of the foot muscles),
• skin defects associated with age-related changes and metabolic disorders (increases blood circulation and tissue nutrition, helping the skin to restore its elasticity and filling it with vital energy).

Moreover, the use of the drug helps cleanse the body of waste and toxins, while simultaneously increasing local and general immunity.

All this is good, but we are now talking about the treatment of heel spurs - a disease that is not so dangerous as it is painful. And therefore, it makes sense to consider the indications for the treatment of heel spurs with Vitafon.

Such physiotherapy treatment, which can be carried out on an outpatient basis or at home, is prescribed in the same cases as therapeutic foot massage, which disperses blood and enhances lymphatic drainage. The use of the device for heel spurs can be prescribed both as the main treatment in combination with the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, and for preventive purposes, after a course of drug treatment has been completed or the bone growth has been removed. After all, the main purpose of the device is to restore damaged tissue and prevent osteophyte re-growth.

The main symptom that allows a doctor to suspect a heel spur is a sharp pain that occurs when a person tries to stand on the heel. Usually the pain is stronger in the morning, because the body is not able to completely overcome the inflammation in the tissues of the sole and restore them overnight, so repeated injury is very painful. Evening pain is associated with prolonged pressure on the inflamed tissues.

In itself, inflammation in the area of the pathological growth is a natural reaction of the body, a kind of immune response to necrotic processes. After all, a heel spur is an accumulation of dead periosteum cells, calcium salts and some other components. The body sends immune cells to the site of its localization, which should facilitate the resorption of the growth through the surrounding soft tissues. To stimulate the fastest possible flow of immune cells to the site of damage, it has to increase the intra-tissue pressure. In such conditions, even a slight load on the heel will cause noticeable pain.

To combat pain, patients have to use painkillers, but such treatment does not promote tissue regeneration. If a person feels pain, he reflexively reduces the pressure on the sore spot, allowing it to recover faster. Without pain, the patient will continue to injure the tissues of the foot.

The drug "Vitafon" can be considered an effective and more logical replacement for painkillers, because it simultaneously relieves pain attacks and stimulates recovery processes, including the resorption of the source of the problem (heel spur).

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Preparation

"Vitafon" is a portable device that provides deep therapeutic massage through vibrations that stimulate the biological vibrations natural to the human body, helping to maintain the functionality of organs and systems.

Vibroacoustic waves easily penetrate soft tissues and act more deeply than local medications used to treat heel spurs. No skin preparation is required, as with drug treatment. For the waves emitted by the device, it does not matter whether the hardened tissues of the foot were steamed the day before or not.

The device does not interfere with the natural processes in the body, so there is no need to refuse certain types of food or take medications, or limit physical activity (usually it is already limited by the disease).

Treatment of heel spurs with Vitafon is a course of simple massage procedures that are easier to perform than self-massage of the foot, which requires certain knowledge and skills.

"Vitafon" is considered one of the simplest vibroacoustic devices. Its use does not require special knowledge, and the method of use is described in a simple instruction manual attached to the device. It will not be difficult for an adult with reading skills to understand it.

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Technique vitaphone heel spur treatment

"Vitafon" is a compact device consisting of a sound wave source equipped with a frequency regulator and a display, and emitters (vibrophones) that deliver healing vibration directly to the affected area. Anyone can purchase such a device for home use if desired, by ordering it on the manufacturer's official website or by visiting the nearest medical equipment store.

Various models of the device for vibroacoustic massage of body tissues, using the phonation technique, allow you to massage different parts of the body. Moreover, the treatment of heel spurs with the Vitafon device at home is no different from using it in physiotherapy rooms. And devices with a remote power supply and timer (for example, the improved portable model Vitafon-T with a convenient bag for storing and carrying the device) allow you to use them even in mobile conditions, for example, in a car, which is very convenient for people who spend most of their lives on the road.

The fact is that physiotherapeutic procedures of phonation should be carried out daily for several weeks. According to the manufacturer's promises, the course of treatment with the drug will be limited to 2-3 weeks if massage sessions are carried out regularly from 2 to 4 times a day. The greatest effect is noted for procedures carried out in the morning after waking up and in the evening before going to bed, when the need of the affected tissues for therapeutic and restorative effects is maximum.

The vibroacoustic massage procedure can last up to half an hour, so you need to make sure in advance that nothing distracts the person during this period and that the session does not have to be interrupted.

Each device, in addition to the radiation source and power supply, has a certain number of vibrophones (emitters). The simplest model "Vibrophone" has only 2.

In more modern models of the device there may be more vibrophones (up to 20 pieces, single, double, synchronized set of 4 vibrophones). Thus, the model "Vitafon-2" has 2 types of emitters - single and double plus an additional cuff and mattress. And the model "Vitafon-5" has two double vibrophones and a set of 4 vibrophones, an autonomous power source and the ability to connect additional modules.

Vibrophones in the Vitafon-5 model are marked, which makes their use more convenient. The emitter, in addition to the display, has a built-in memory, where a person enters their data (age, height and weight) and 9 programmed power modes, so that a person only needs to plug the device into the network and select the phonation mode, in which the amplitude and frequency of acoustic vibrations and the vibrations formed as a result of them will be optimally selected.

Some models of the device (Vitafon-2 and Vitafon-IK) in addition to vibroacoustic action carry out additional treatment using infrared radiation, which enhances the anti-inflammatory effect. But for massaging a heel spur, the simplest model of the device is usually sufficient.

The technique of deep hardware massage is approximately the same for all models. How and where it is best to apply the vibrophones of the device is written in the simple instructions for each model. One of the vibrophones is usually applied to the heel area, having previously placed a thin napkin between the emitter and the skin. This condition comes from sanitary and hygienic requirements, because caring for the vibrophone excludes water cleansing procedures. The fabric does not interfere with the passage of waves that penetrate to a depth of 10 cm. During the session, this vibrophone is gradually moved up to the ankle and shin area.

Doctors recommend placing the second vibrophone on the knee area of the sore leg for the entire duration of the procedure to ensure a comprehensive effect. There is no point in placing the vibrophones close to each other, because their radius of action is at least 5 cm. It is also not recommended to place them opposite each other. Ideally, they should be at a right angle to each other.

Vibrophones do not have special devices to attach them to the body, but holding the emitters with your hands for several minutes is not very convenient. In this regard, manufacturers and doctors recommend fixing the position of the vibrophone with an elastic bandage. Now a person can not only treat the disease, but also enjoy the treatment, relaxing in a chair or on a sofa, feeling light pleasant vibrations and enjoying how the pain gradually recedes.

After the vibrophones are installed, we select the Vitafon modes for treating heel spurs using the switches on the device. In the simplest model, there are only two of them:

• the operating mode with an oscillation frequency in the range of 0.02 – 4.5 kHz has a therapeutic effect on the muscles and ligaments of the foot, stimulating their training due to active contraction in time with microvibrations,
• The mode with waves located in the range of 0.2-18 kHz has an analgesic effect and is effective for severe pain. Deep massage performed at the cellular level reduces the excitability of nerve endings, and this leads to a decrease in pain. This mode can be used during the day and in the evening for severe pain that does not allow you to step on your heel.

Having received the opportunity of effective therapeutic massage at home, you must not lose your head. The words "a lot" and "good" have never been considered synonyms. You need to get used to the vibration effect gradually. The first procedures should last about 5 minutes. You need to increase the duration of the session gradually.

The optimal time is considered to be procedures lasting from 15 to 30 minutes. But here it is necessary to take into account the following moment: the shorter the time of the procedure, the more sessions there should be. So for a half-hour effect, 2-3 procedures are enough, and if the session time is halved, the procedures will have to be carried out up to 6 times a day.

Quite often, the cause of mineral imbalance in the area of bones and tendons is the kidneys. When the organ malfunctions, uric acid accumulates and the electrolyte composition of the blood is disturbed. The entire body suffers from this, including the nervous and musculoskeletal systems. Disruption of neuromuscular cushioning of joints leads to a change in gait, as a result of which the load on the tendons increases, which become more susceptible to ruptures and stretches.

To avoid tendon ruptures, inflammation of the plantar fascia and the formation of heel spurs in the future, doctors recommend simultaneously performing phonation of the kidney area with the device, which will improve their functionality.

Contraindications to the procedure

The Vitafon device is generally considered a safe device. And its effect on the body in most cases has a healing effect. However, some effects from using the device may be potentially dangerous if a person has the following diseases:

• Malignant tumors, regardless of the location of the neoplasm (tumor cells have the ability to spread through the lymphogenous and hematogenous pathways, i.e. through the lymph and blood, therefore increased stimulation of lymph and blood flow can provoke metastatic processes).
• Diseases with an increased risk of thrombus formation: vascular thrombosis, thrombophlebitis (increased blood flow can provoke a thrombus to break off and block blood vessels, and the movement of a thrombus to the heart area can be fatal).
• Elevated body temperature, feverish condition (increased blood flow in this case can only complicate the situation, and if we are talking about a viral or bacterial pathology, it can also provoke the spread of infection throughout the body). When the temperature returns to normal and the symptoms of infection disappear, treatment of heel spurs with Vitafon can be resumed.
• Infectious diseases of any localization, especially those that occur in an acute form due to the risk of spreading the infection to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph flow.
• Previous craniocerebral traumas are classified as relative contraindications. In this case, it is not recommended to use the device near the head (vibrophones are installed no closer than 10 cm from it).
• In diseases associated with the formation of stones in the kidneys, gallbladder and urinary bladder, as well as if there is a predisposition to their formation, "Vitafon" is not used near these organs. In this case, it is recommended to discuss the treatment options for heel spurs with your doctor.

It is not recommended to use the device for phonation for expectant mothers due to insufficient research into the impact of microvibrations on the fetus and the course of pregnancy. During this period, any treatment methods should be selected with special caution and used only with the permission of a doctor.

The device may adversely affect the operation of implanted electronic devices that have their own electric field. The interaction of fields may affect the readings and functionality of the implants.

Increased pain after the first procedures, which is extremely rare and is caused by the individual reaction of the immune and nervous systems, is not considered a contraindication and does not indicate the absence of a therapeutic effect. The patient will simply have to endure this short period, which will definitely be followed by relief.

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Consequences after the procedure

Treatment of heel spurs with Vitafon is an opportunity to restore the functionality of tissues that have undergone inflammatory and degenerative processes without the use of drugs. Vibroacoustic exposure for 25-30 minutes is not capable of having a negative effect on the human body, so complications after the procedure are usually not observed, if you take into account the contraindications to the use of the device for the phonation procedure, or rather the restrictions on the procedure itself.

What results can be expected from phonation for heel spurs:

• vibroacoustic action restores normal blood parameters and improves blood circulation in the lower extremities,
• there is an increase in blood flow through the arteries and an improvement in venous outflow,
• microvibrations improve lymphatic drainage, and with the flow of lymph, toxins and everything unnecessary that hinders recovery are removed from the body,
• the edema syndrome goes away,
• the inflammatory process and pain syndrome subside,
• excess salts are removed from joints and tendons, their mobility and strength are restored,
• microvibrations gradually destroy the pathological bone growth, promoting its resorption and the removal of dead cells from the body through the lymphatic system,
• The elasticity of the fascia and muscles of the foot increases, making them more resistant to damage.

It turns out that "Vitafon" promotes the regeneration of damaged tissues by increasing blood circulation and supplying nutrients to the diseased organ, as well as by activating the process of utilization of substances that support the inflammatory process. And all this is done naturally. The vibrations of the device are similar to the microvibrations of healthy organs, thus the device makes the body heal itself and work in the previous normal mode.

A useful side effect of phonation can be considered an increase in humoral and local immunity. At the same time, the body's resistance to infections increases. The less a person gets sick, the stronger his body and the higher his performance, which is also important in the modern world, where this quality is especially highly valued (including in monetary terms).

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Care after the procedure

Treatment of heel spurs with Vitafon does not involve damage to the skin, which means that special care after the procedure is not required. It is enough to protect the foot from heavy loads during treatment and use special orthopedic insoles (or the same shoes) when walking. By the way, in the future it is better to give preference to shoes in which the feet will be comfortable, and the ligaments will experience less stress even when walking quickly and playing sports.

Is it necessary to additionally carry out drug and physiotherapy treatment in a medical institution? If desired, you can resort to combined therapy, which will give faster results. The instructions for the device do not indicate any restrictions on drug therapy, physical therapy or surgical treatment.

By the way, about the operation to remove the heel spur. Even if it was carried out according to all requirements, the risk of relapse usually remains, and "Vitafon" allows you to reduce it as much as possible, creating favorable conditions for the regeneration of tissues damaged by the disease and during the operation. In reviews of the drug, you can also find those in which people talk about rapid scarring of wounds without the formation of scars when using the phonation technique.

Above we talked about removing heel spurs using a scalpel, laser, radio waves, etc., usually prescribed for advanced forms of the disease. But in most cases, a vibroacoustic device is enough to treat heel spurs so that the foot tissues can fully recover. True, for some, a 2-week course of treatment is enough, while others will have to fight inflammation and pain for 2-3 months or more, depending on the size of the spur and the severity of the disease.

In the future, it will be possible to conduct repeated courses of treatment with the device, which are necessary for the prevention of relapses, which are quite common with plantar fasciitis. And it is very convenient if the portable device is in the home medicine cabinet, because then if heel pain reappears, the person will not have to regularly visit the physiotherapy room again. He can easily carry out effective treatment procedures at home without the help of doctors, simultaneously improving the health of the entire body.

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Reviews

When you read the promises of manufacturers in the instructions for medical devices, you get the feeling that their brainchildren can cure almost any disease. But then you start to wonder what percentage of truth there is in these promises, because the instructions for the drug do not contain reviews from real people whom the device really helped to cope with the disease.

But you can easily see the real picture of the effectiveness of Vitafon treatment of heel spurs by googling this topic on the Internet. And it must be said that the search results are impressive.

Almost all reviews of the device related to the treatment of plantar fasciitis and heel spurs say one thing - "Vitafon" can really be called a unique method of treating these pathologies. Almost all patients who tried to be treated with phonation felt relief.

People are delighted with the device, which has given them the opportunity to live a normal, active life, enjoy freedom of movement and let go of the piercing pain that has haunted them for days and months. Anyone who has experienced it at least once understands what we are talking about and how a person wants to get rid of suffering as soon as possible.

It is clear that it is not so easy to cure the severe pain and inflammation of tissues that are regularly subjected to trauma. It will take weeks and months for the disease to go away, if not forever, then at least for a long time. However, patients begin to talk about pain relief after 5-6 procedures, and after 10-12 procedures, a person is able to step on the heel. The disease will not disappear in a short period of time, but the person will already be able to walk.

Yes, you can walk without pain even after therapy with painkillers. But they do not solve the problem of inflammation, do not help the tissues affected by the disease to recover, do not normalize the metabolism at the site of the lesion, do not increase local immunity, preventing relapses, as Vitafon does. And it does this quite safely, replacing with its action both anesthetics, and corticosteroids, and folk remedies for the destruction of heel spurs.

Yes, vibroacoustic treatment may cause concern in some people, because it is human nature to question everything that they encounter for the first time and to be afraid of their own doubts due to a simple misunderstanding of many physical phenomena. But the use of glucocorticosteroid-based ointments also alarms those who have at least once encountered hormonal therapy or read about it. And the claims that the active substances are poorly absorbed through the skin are not very reassuring.

It is clear that in large doses and at a certain frequency, vibration can have a negative effect on the body. But, firstly, we are talking about certain frequencies of sound waves, and secondly, the procedure time is limited to 30 minutes, during which dangerous irreversible changes in the body are unlikely to begin. Unless irritation occurs due to the squeak emitted by the device (but we are still talking about sound waves).

Many of those who once purchased one of the Vitafon models believe that being afraid to use this device is the same as being afraid of singing or talking, because sound waves are also used here. If you use the device according to the instructions, it will definitely not cause harm.

But the benefits of phonation can be discussed for a very long time. People successfully treat runny nose and sinusitis, prostatitis and menstrual pain, spinal injuries and joint diseases, diabetes and hemorrhoids, rheumatism and many other diseases with the help of the described device. At the same time, the device is used in the family to treat all its members from young to old.

The device is used to relieve swelling and itching in children at the site of midge and mosquito bites. Mothers write that even one session is enough to forget about this problem.

There are many positive reviews about the treatment of heel spurs, joint pain and sinusitis with Vitafon. Anyone who has encountered such diseases knows how difficult they are to treat and how painful their symptoms are.

Let's not lie to the reader that all reviews of the drug are positive. If among the participants of various discussions there are distrustful people, and those who in pursuit of a quick relief from the painful symptoms of the disease do not look at the contraindications and as a result get a deterioration in health, and people who do not know all their diagnoses. But most of all the negativity comes from those who take the medical device for a magic pill: take it at night - and wake up healthy.

I liked the statement of one forum member that the disease can develop in the body for months and years, so you should not expect that one or two sessions with "Vitafon" will help you forget about the problem right away. If a person has not neglected the disease, then a couple of sessions can help, but since you have brought yourself to a deplorable state, be kind enough to be patient. Even if the pain intensifies for some time.

If you have doubts, then you need to go straight to your doctor and ask him a question. If the doctor cannot say anything about the device, there are instructions, information on the Internet on the official website, reviews of those who have already used the device. In the end, information can be obtained in specialized medical equipment stores, where they sell various models of "Vitafon" and you can look at certificates for them.

Some say that the positive results may be due to the placebo effect, and microvibrations do not have a healing effect. And this is most often said by those who have a Vitafon they once bought gathering dust on their shelves at home. But for some reason, there is no response to the request to sell it as unnecessary to those who believe in the effectiveness of the device. Why does no one want to sell a “useless” thing in order to turn in money “thrown to the wind”?

Now, regarding the effectiveness of different models of "Vitafon". All of them equally well treat heel spurs and other pathologies specified in the instructions for the device, which also describes the methods of application for each disease. Another thing is that devices with a timer and multiple vibrophones make it easier to use the device.

For example, the presence of a timer allows the patient to relax and not keep track of time. And a larger number of emitters compared to simple models, according to reviews, is very helpful for those who purchased the device for general health improvement or have several pathologies that require treatment (in this case, all of them can be treated simultaneously by applying vibrophones to different affected areas).

The fact that with the help of "Vitafon" people were able to get rid of diseases that had tormented them for many years and were not amenable to medical treatment already gives hope. There are quite a few such examples described on the Internet, and it is unlikely that all these people would slander themselves for the sake of advertising and sales, especially since the device is sold in specialized stores, and not only on Internet sites for trade purposes.

It is clear that not everyone can completely cope with a chronic disease (and is it even possible?), but the fact that pain, swelling and inflammation disappear for a long time, and blood sugar and pressure are maintained within normal limits for a fairly long time is also worth a lot. If you have such a device at home, you can stop the symptoms of exacerbation of diseases at the very beginning and live a completely happy life. Moreover, many of those who once decided to buy it claim that the Vitafon device pays for itself, because before that much more money was thrown away on ineffective treatment.

In this article, we do not aim to increase sales of Vitafon. We would simply like to introduce our readers to new methods of treating diseases without the use of drugs. Methods that have already been tested by time and people, but are not yet as popular as Analgin and Prednisolone. Treating heel spurs with Vitafon helps patients get the desired relief in a relatively safe way. Perhaps it is not suitable for everyone, because phonation has its own contraindications for use, but if nothing prevents a person from getting his dose of health, then is it worth giving it up?