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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.
1 Plantar fasciitis: A bone spur, sometimes called a heel spur, can form where the connective tissue (fascia) connects to your heel bone (calcaneus).2  The spur results from chronic irritation or inflammation of the connective tissue, but it doesnât cause the pain associated with plantar fasciitis.one spurs, also known as osteophytes are bony growths that form along the edges of bones. Bone spurs can develop on any bone and without signs or symptoms and may go undetected for years.