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- From: cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: Plantar Facitis (?sp)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.000413.31641@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 00:04:13 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.122928.10710@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> <1993Jan22.143155.41820@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> <1993Jan25.022708.19716@dickens.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.022708.19716@dickens.com> lpc@dickens.com (Luis P Caamano) writes:
- [wrt PF]
- >And more than that will produce a heel spur which is so painful you
- >can hardly walk and more than often requires surgery. What happens is
- >that the heel bone grows in the direction of the muscle to try to help
- >(I'd say), but the spur will pinch your skin and the fat sac that
- >protects the bone.
-
- Heel spurs are the result of calcification of bleeding around the
- injured part of the fasica.
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- Howard Black cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu
- Department of Chemistry Eastern Illinois Univ.
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