Cliff, I recognized mine because I could barely walk for the best part of a year, (sometimes I could NOT walk, and crawled!) and from eventual diagnosis by a bone and joint specialist. However he told me that as Ken said, the spurs themselves are the body's attempt to protect itself from injuries to the tendon that attaches where the spurs form. The doc also said the pain is from the tendon, NOT from the bone spur. It is excruciating, or was for me, and feels like the tendon is tearing because it is in fact having microscopic tears.... The surgery is risky. I have a nurse aquaintance who had the surgery, and now has a "dropped" foot, a much worse actual problem than the original one, as the tendons would have eventually heal with proper treatment, but she's stuck with the dropped foot for the rest of her life, will always wear a brace now, and won't ever regain good control of the foot. paula ----- Original Message ----- From: Cliff To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:30 AM Subject: RE: CS>Heel Spurs
How do we recognize heel spurs? Cliff Hume.
