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Pagetâs disease causes bones to grow too large and weak. You can have Pagetâs disease in any bones in your body, but most people have it in their spine, pelvis, skull, or leg bones. The disease may affect only one bone or several bones, but it does not affect the entire skeleton.f you have Pagetâs disease in your leg bones, you may also have bowed legs. Your spine might curve if the disease is in the bones of the spine. People with Pagetâs disease in the bones of the skull sometimes have: 1  Headaches. 2  Hearing loss. 3  Large head size.
Inflammation of the tissue on the bottom of the foot, plantar fasciitis, can lead to a bone spur at the underside of the heel bone. These bone spurs are sometimes referred to as heel spurs. A bone spur is medically referred to as an osteophyte. Rarely, bone spurs may occur as a result of congenital conditions. Bone spurs develop in areas of inflammation or injury of nearby cartilage or tendons. 2  Bone spurs may or may not cause symptoms. 3  When they do cause symptoms, the symptoms depend on their location. 4  Bone spurs can be associated with pain, numbness, tenderness, and weakness if they are irritating adjacent tissues.