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Bone Spur Ankle

The ankle is a common place for bone spurs to appear. There is a lot of wear and tear that happens to the ankle joint over the years. The loss of cartilage and the friction that this causes as the bones are not protect causes bone spurs to appear on the ankle.

It is not uncommon to see bone spur appear where the major bones of the ankle meets. These bones are the

  • the shinbone (tibia)
  • the other bone of the lower leg (fibula)
  • the anklebone (talus)

It is also common to se bone spurs on the joint below the ankle joint is another joint which is called subtalar, it is where the anklebone connects to the heel bone (calcaneus).

Most bone spurs on Ankle are caused by osteoarthritis. This disease affects cartilage, the tissue that cushions and protects the ends of bones in a joint. With osteoarthritis, the cartilage starts to wear away over time. In extreme cases, the cartilage can completely wear away, leaving nothing to protect the bones in a joint, causing bone-on-bone contact. Bones may also bulge, or stick out at the end of a joint, called a bone spur.

Bone spurs can also be caused by an injury to a ankle joint. In the process of trying to heal the injury to the bone cause by the trauma to the ankle joint the body sometimes over compensates and in the process causes calcium build up which forms into a bone spur.

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01/18/2010

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