Surgery can remove heel spurs when other treatment methods are ineffective. Healthcare providers categorize heel spurs based on where they form near your heel bone. A plantar heel spur forms on ...

This week we are going to discuss the topic of heel spurs or traction apophysitis of the heel/calcaneus bone. Traction apophysitis is a term for a spur that occurs at a tendon attachment as a ...

Heel spurs are bony growths that form on the ... A small study in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery found that after two years of gentle daily plantar fascia stretching, 92 percent of ...