Heel Pain and What it May Mean
The heel bone is the largest of the 26 bones in the human foot, which also has 33 joints and a network of more than 100 tendons, muscles, and ligaments. Like all bones, it is subject to outside influences that can affect its integrity and its ability to keep us on our feet. Heel pain, sometimes disabling, can occur in the front, back, or bottom of the heel. Causes Heel pain has many causes. Heel pain is generally the result of faulty biomechanics (walking gait abnormalities)