How To Treat Heel Fissures

Hello I'm Charles Goldman, a qualified Chiropodist/Podiatrist. I run “The Foot Pad” chiropody and physical therapy clinic in (Sounds like: Hoven), Central London. Today I'm gonna talk to you about various foot problems and their treatment.

In this film were gonna talk about the treatment of heel fissures. Heel fissures are basically cracks in the heel. This is often caused by dry skin and movement of the skin without stretching.

When this happens the skin tears and you get fissures the problems that can arise is that you can get infections in these fissures so it is important to treat them. The first thing you need to do is to have the hard skin removed either by a professional or constant filing. Generally filing at home is not enough and you do need professional help to have the hard skin removed with a scalpel.

Once that's done you treat it with an emollient or a moisturizer to close the skin and improve the elasticity of the skin tissue. Once this is done, constant maintenance with a skin cream/foot cream will help maintain the skin as it should be. High activity of the feet would make you more prone to cracking of the heels.

If you have a dry skin this is obviously going to be worse, once you've got rid of the cracks and the skin has healed over constant maintenance is important and using a foot cream is very, very beneficial. Creams recommended by podiatrist are very rich in urea, 25 percent and sometimes with lanolin. I prefer those without lanolin.

These are two of the ones recommended; CCS foot cream or I forgot what this one is called, or Dermatonics heel balm. Both of them are very good and constant use overtime will reduce the fissures in the heel. This the way we would treat heel fissures. .