A heel spur, or calcaneal spur, is a bony growth of calcium deposits on the back or bottom of the heel bone that often has a hooked, pointy, or shelf-like shape. Heel spurs develop when strain or ...

A bruised heel is an injury to the fat pad that protects the heel bone (calcaneus). It can develop from repeated impact ...

Objective Calcaneal apophysitis, is a relatively common cause of heel pain in children. Very few randomised studies have evaluated treatment options. This trial compared the effectiveness of currently ...

The procedure included a debridement, a flexor digitorum longus transfer, calcaneal osteotomies and a gastrocnemius recession. She then had another course of physical therapy. Wilson alleged that ...

Their calcanea lack the anatomy - a long calcaneal heel - that would help resist rotational forces at the ankle experienced during hopping, suggesting a more-erect limb posture instead of the ...

Figure 1 summarises the age and gender distribution of the participants. In total we report data from 598,757 heel scans for women, and 173,326 scans for men over the age of 20 years. The number ...

Like Osgood-Schlatter and Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease, Sever disease, or calcaneal apophysitis, is a traction apophysitis. Repetitive impact and Achilles tendon traction lead to complaints of ...

The association of foot posture using the Foot Posture Index, navicular drop and calcaneal angle relative to subtalar joint neutral; and the footwear motion control properties scale score with ...

Hadraba, Daniel Janacek, Jiri Filova, Eva Lopot, Frantisek Paesen, Rik Fanta, Ondrej Jarman, Anneliese Necas, Alois Ameloot, Marcel and Jelen, Karel 2017. Calcaneal ...