For the last week I have noticed this pain in my left heel. It started after mowing the lawn and twisting my foot and almost falling over, mower and all, when my foot tell into a rut in the grass. The next day it was quite painful, enough to wake me from a dead sleep. When at rest it feels like I'm stepping on a small metal ball dead center in the middle of my heel. There is also some pain on the inside of my foot between the ankle and Achilles tendon. I have tried taping it, as you would for a bruised heel; i have tried ice, heat, hot baths, etc but the pain is still there.... Any suggestions on what this could be and how to treat would be WONDERFUL!!!!