Talk:Calcaneal spur

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A bonespur is leached calcium erupting like a volcano? What does that even mean? This might be a useful metaphor if it were in addition to a clear medical explanation. The language comes straight from the bonespur.com website, which seems to be definitely outside the medical mainstream. I'd love to improve the article, but I came here looking for information because I don't know anything about the subject. Craig Butz (talk) 04:31, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Looking back through the history, I see that someone keeps reinserting the following three junk paragraphs lifted from the bonespur.com website (which sells calcium supplements) that they seem desparate to promote:

Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body but may also be the most deficient. The amount of calcium that we absorb from our food varies widely. Age can be a factor; an adolescent may absorb up to 75% of the calcium obtained from foods, while an adult's maximum absorption rate can range from 20% to 30%.

Calcium is found in the extracellular fluids and soft tissues of the body where it is vital to normal cell functioning. Much of the calcium in soft tissues is concentrated in muscle, although it is contained in the membrane and cytoplasm of every cell. [3]

When the body is deficient of calcium it begins to leach calcium from the bones. In many people this happens to be in the heel of the foot or some other weak area of the body. As the calcium is being leached, it forms an eruption similar to a volcano. This eruption is the bone spur.[4]

Possible treatment: http://bonespur.com

I'm deleting them from the main page. If this is more than snake oil sales and someone would like to write a NPOV explanation of calcium treatment, that would be great. Craig Butz (talk) 05:06, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

I've just removed the same material from the same website, added this time by 24.29.212.250 (talk · contribs). (I'm sure it would surprise no one to find that this IP, apparently a residential broadband subscriber, just happens to be located in Alliance, Ohio, the very city given for sending payments to the owner of bonespur.com.) I suspect they'll be back again, so keep an eye out for them. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:58, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

This advert rubbish removed yet again. Janko (talk) 14:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

This is a horrifying definition of calcaneal heel spurs. Not only is the reference link not functional the definition is far from accurate. I deleted almost half the definition and added a couple of clarifying words. I will be updating this reference soon. ~BBA —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.33.24.163 (talk) 23:27, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

I have a close friend of the family that is a podiatrist. I'll see if he can add to the quality of foot related articles on Wiki, as he's personally ready to retire.Wzrd1 (talk) 04:48, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

A purer form of pseudo-science that IGNORES reality cannot be better presented than by the statement of "As the calcium is being leached, it forms an eruption similar to a volcano.", ignoring the hell out of the body's response to stressors of use to said bone over OTHER bones. Even a FIRST year resident could shoot that down! Sell the snake oil elsewhere, perhaps on a leather treatment site.Wzrd1 (talk) 04:51, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Dead Link

A new reference link should be found because the given link does not work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.191.56.53 (talk) 22:57, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

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