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 ...

Miguel Cunha, DPM, a podiatric surgery specialist and founder ... fascia and Achilles tendon insert into the heel bone, ...

Doctors used to believe that heel spurs caused pain in people with plantar fasciitis. These are hooks of bone that can form ... of treatments long term. Surgery also carries the risks of bleeding ...

BRUSSELS (AP)—U.S. Open semifinalist Yanina Wickmayer has had surgery to remove a bone spur from her right elbow, and she hopes to play in the French Open. Wickmayer’s agent, Olivier R.