Heel Spur: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).

  • Bursitis (bursitis).
  • Chronic polyarthritis
  • Coalitio talonavicularis – malformation of the navicular and calcaneal bones.
  • Gout (arthritis urica/uric acid-related joint inflammation or tophic gout)/hyperuricemia (elevation of uric acid levels in the blood).
  • Calcaneal cyst (cyst in the heel bone area).
  • Bekhterev’s disease – chronic inflammatory disease of the spine, which can lead to joint stiffness (ankylosis) of the affected joints.
  • Paget’s disease (osteitis deformans) – bone disease associated with greatly increased bone remodeling.
  • Osteomyelitis (bone marrow inflammation)
  • Posterior impingement (entrapment syndrome) of the upper ankle joint (OSG).
  • Tendinitis and (tendonitis) of the flexor hallucis longus tendon (Latin for “long big toe flexor”; a toe flexor muscle).

Injuries, poisonings, and other sequelae of external causes (S00-T98).

Medication

  • Fluoride medication

Other differential diagnoses

  • See also under “Foot pain”