Of course, trump. If he got an MRI at Walter Reed, would it show his bone spurs, if they’re real? Or would he have been subjected to any other kind of scan which could reveal?
Assuming that you’re referring to Trump’s stay at Walter Reed when he had COVID in October of 2020, if they did give him an MRI (or a CT or an X-ray), they would likely have been looking at his chest, specifically, and not his feet.
If Trump ever had bone spurs, which I seriously doubt, they would be the biggest and best bone spurs ever. Bigger than Abraham Lincoln’s, George Washington’s or Martin Luther King Jr’s bone spurs. So big they would be visible from space even.
And even if they slide someone into the machine the other way, it’s not necessarily set up to take an image of that body part. The same protocol is not set up to look at different body parts, and there’s even multiple protocols for a single body part that will show completely different things.
Bone spurs show up on an ordinary x-ray, being pieces of bone after all. If anyone wants to answer the question, “does Trump have bone spurs today”, and has Trump’s permission to do scans, that’s a really easy question to answer.
But as others have said, the odds that anyone imaged his heels when he was hospitalized for covid are really small. There’s no reason they would have done that. And because scans take time and resources, they are usually only done on body parts that are relevant to the medical issue at hand.
Like the world has never seen…
(Ron Howard voice) They’re not.
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There are some factual questions here, so this thread can stay open, but this is not the thread, nor even the forum, for digs at Trump. Any more such will receive Warnings.
A MRI scanner is good for a whole body scan in that you don’t get irradiated. But they are not fast, and if there is no specific need, no reason why one would be done. Some doctors like the idea of doing them periodically, but not cheap, and likely not covered by most insurers - especially if only done without any specific indications.
OTOH, the health management of the very rich is a different animal to that the rest of us are used too. It would not surprise me to learn that something like annual all body scans are just part of the standard preventative medicine routine for those that can afford to have arbitrarily high levels of care.
As noted above, an MRI scan will image bone, and will show up the morphology of bone, but it isn’t its strong suite. The imaging will be significantly less useful than obtained via an X-ray.
He almost certainly does have some spurring now. Most people will have bone spurs in their feet by the time they hit late middle age. It’s a common degenerative change. So imagine his feet today likely would not tell us anything about their condition in the 70s. If he saw a podiatrist back then and was diagnosed with spurring there would be x-rays, but the films and reports will long since have been destroyed.
Heel spurs (/plantar fasciitis) are bony growths that develop on the calcaneus (heel bone) due to excessive tension from the plantar fascia, a ligament that runs along the bottom of the foot. This tension, often due to certain foot types (e.g. flat feet, high arches), obesity, or jobs requiring prolonged standing or walking (e.g., mail carriers), can lead to calcification at the plantar fascia’s attachment point on the heel bone, resulting in a spur. The pain commonly associated with heel spurs is not caused by the spur itself—often considered an incidental finding—but by inflammation of the surrounding tissues. Surgical treatment typically involves both the removal of the heel spur and the release of the plantar fascia to relieve tension and reduce inflammation. This is usually done by minimal incision surgery (MIS), guided by C-Arm fluoroscopy.
Heel spurs are best seen on lateral x-ray.