heel problem

[asdfa 0]

i've been skating in 8090s for about 8 months, and i've just noticed a little tiny bump on the back side of my heel, roughly where the achilles tendon starts. i'm not sure but i think it's from my skates (not from my shoes) so does anyone have a suggestion besides getting new skates?

i got them fitted correctly and they fit well, but sometimes, there's a little heel slip because my laces loosen, so i think it might be the padding in the boot rubbing my heel when it comes up :(

any suggestions are appreciated

[echi24 1]

maybe try waxed laces so your skates dont get loose?

[JGraz15 53]

http://www.podiatryonline.com/main.cfm?sea...ts/haglunds.cfm

http://www.allaboutmydoc.com/surgeonweb/su...cle/docId.40507

[bulletproof_funk 0]

If you are talking about a bump beside and below your achilles tendon, what I do is tape a small gel pad to the inside of my skate boot where the bump is.

[biff44 0]

Like Graz said, it is Haglund's bump. It is fairly serious, because if you keep irritating that spot, eventually a bone spur grows under the bump. The good news is that for the first few months, the bump is just fluid and fibrous tissue, and you can get it to go away if you hurry. At one point in the not too distant past, EVERY player on your average D1 college team had it (according to an orthopedist who worked with a college team).

My kid had it bad from a pair of old vapor X's. What made it go away was to wear thick socks that would pad his feet well. I also took a big "C" clamp and pressed the padding down in the area where the bump was forming. After about 1 month, the bump went down on its own. Eventually he moved to XX's, and the problem has not recurred.

I hear that some skate shops can punch out the padding in the area where it is rubbing.

If the 8090's are heat formable, I would reheat them while I had the bump area taped up to be bigger, and see if that did the trick.

[asdfa 0]

i've been skating barefoot for about a month, would that be causeing the bump? the skate doesn't feel like it fits any different barefoot or with socks, but would that make the difference?

[Lucius 0]

Skating barefoot might make them develop a bit faster, but unless you're wearing very thick socks, you'll probably get them regardless. I've had them for most of my life, and I've recently begun aligning a piece of gauze with that area before I skate, which seems to help. At some point, I'll have to have them surgically removed.

Worst part about it is that the "bump" has a tendency to wear through the backs of expensive shoes.