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I have left calcaneus bone bigger and wider than right causing pain in legs and leg length discrepancy .is there any surgery to reduce calcaneus bone size
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Would like to know if you have had any injury to your heel bone in the past.
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If you had trauma then I would suggest an x-ray first.
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