Word of Science

Why do our heels pain? Majority of the times the pain in the heels is due to planter fascia.  Planter fascia involves  the inflammation of the connective tissue that supports the foot, leading to swelling and pain. It includes micro-tears, break down of collagen and scarring. What causes this pain? Long time standing job Overdoing the exercise  Increase in the body weight  Leg length inequality  Flat feet with the tendency of rolling inward Heel spurs (calcium deposition) How to deal with it preliminarily? Self care before one goes for corticosteroids and surgery.  ‘RICE’ Rest intermittently  Ice packs application Compression  Elevation  (Shoe modification for proper fit and arch support)  Weight reduction Foot rotation and arch stretching  Calf strengthening exercises

 Friends, I was in my school and during vacation, I would always go to my maternal village, Nandgaon in Nasik district. As a small kid with all my cousins, I visited the Devi temple on one of the Fridays. I entered the temple through the main door, and it was loaded with people. The crowd drifted me inside, gradually towards the main statue, and when we were inside that time I started feeling breathless. It was an uncomfortable and intense feeling of escape and I also started suffocating with hot flashes. When I came out in open air, it was a feeling of life once again. This incidence repeated so many times, in the temples, sometimes in the public bus, sometimes in an auto rickshaw, sometimes in a crowded mall, in an aeroplane, at all these places crowd was the common factor which would always to lead to accumulation of carbon dioxide. A contributing factor to that was the temperature, like if it is winters or heavy rains, breathlessness was not an issue but if it was summers and a...