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Foot Pain
Foot pain has many common characteristics to
back pain.
Both the feet and the back are required in order to be mobile, go to work, take care of a family and perform the countless other functions we require of our bodies everyday.
Psychologically induced pain syndromes
often target parts of our bodies which are necessary for our survival and success. The most common types of painful feet are heel spurs and
plantar fasciitis.
Both of these conditions can be a direct result of
psychosomatic pain
disorders.
Foot Pain Conditions
Many patients with severe pain in their feet demonstrate a clinical symptomatic picture which relates to a given activity. This is also common for
back pain patients.
The activities providing the painful stimuli are usually either directly linked to a job function or some other important facet of a person’s life. This is surely no coincidence. Medical
doctors
usually explain this correlation by blaming the activity as a source of injury, overuse or degeneration. This is rarely the truth, which explains medical science's poor treatment results with both common back pain, as well as foot related discomfort. Sometimes, the patient’s foot symptoms are actually blamed on a
abnormal spinal
condition. This helps to solidify the link between foot and back pain, as well as explain how medicine often misses the point completely during the diagnostic process.
Foot Pain Diagnosis
Many doctors rarely consider anything about a patient except for the specific health complaint explaining their visit. This is poor medicine and the main reason for unsuccessful treatment results.
Holistic
doctors have learned that all parts of the anatomy influence the form and function of surrounding bodily locations. This is an improvement, but still not a complete picture. Specialists in
mind/body medicine
realize that all states of health and disease are a combined result of the physical, mental and emotional aspects of the self. When it comes to common pain in the feet, there is no exception to this rule. Symptoms are most often blamed on some coincidental anatomical condition, when they actually are the result of psycho-emotional issues.
Recommendation on Foot Pain
True physical pain responds well to traditional and alternative medical treatment. If your pain resists all varieties of therapies, there is a chance that you are actually suffering from a psychosomatic process experienced primarily in the feet. This is a common
back pain substitute symptom
and can be debilitating. Do not expect that your doctor will diagnose this condition accurately, since medical science mostly denies the power the mind possesses to cause pain in the physical body. With this limited mentality, it is no surprise that psychological pain syndromes have become an
epidemic
burden to modern society.
Foot Pain to Back Pain Home
6/18/08 revised 7/24/08
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