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Most bone spurs do not cause symptoms and can go undetected for years. Methods of treatment, if any, for bone spurs depends on where and how they affect how health.

Define

Spurs bone is bone spur development along the edges of the bone. Bone spurs itself is not painful, but can rub the nearby nerves causing pain.


Bone spurs, also called spines, can form on any bone. Usually formed bone in the joints. However, it can be found where ligaments and tendons connect bones. Bone spurs can form on the bones of the spine.

Most bone spurs do not cause symptoms and can go undetected for years. Methods of treatment, if any, for bone spurs depends on where and how they affect how health.

The symptoms

Most bone spurs do not cause signs or symptoms. Often they do not even realize there are bone spurs until X-rays or other conditions showed bone growth.

However, some bone spurs can cause:

Pain in the joints.

Loss of motion in the joints.

Location identify other symptoms

Location where the bone spurs are identified where will feel pain and experience any other signs or symptoms. For example:

In the knee, bone spurs can cause pain when extended and bent. The bone spurs can decide how the knee ligaments to keep operating smoothly.

Spine, bone spurs can push against the nerves, or even the spine, causing pain and numbness in other parts of the body.

On the neck, bone spurs jutting cervix may be in, sometimes making it difficult to swallow or pain when breathing. Bone spurs can also push against veins, restricting blood flow to the brain.

In the shoulder, bone spurs may limit the range of motion of the arm. Bone spurs can rub on the rotating cuff, a group of muscles and ligaments to help control the movement shoulder.

On the fingers, bone spurs may appear as hard lumps under the skin, causing the fingers appear distorted. The bone spurs on fingers can cause constant pain.

An appointment with your doctor if you have pain or swelling in one or more joints, or if you have difficulty in moving joints. If you have an underlying medical condition, diagnosis and early treatment can help prevent or slow further joint damage.

Cause

The bone spurs occur as a result of a disease or condition - often with osteoarthritis. When OA joints break down cartilage in the joints. Often this means creating new areas of bone along the edge of the existing bone.

Bone spurs are signs of the disease and other conditions, including:

Hypertrophy diffuse idiopathic skeletal spines (DISH). This condition causes the growth of bone forming the spinal ligaments.

Promote fasciitis heel bone, sometimes called encourages heel, can form the connective tissue (fascia) connecting the heel bone (calcaneus). The results from the stimulation or promote chronic inflammation of the connective tissue, but it does not promote the cause of the pain associated with the heel.

Spondylosis. In this condition, osteoarthritis and bone spurs cause degeneration of the bones in the neck or lower back (lumbar spondylosis).

Spinal stenosis. Bone spurs can contribute to narrowing the spine (spinal stenosis), putting pressure on the spine.

There may be a normal part of aging. Bone spurs can also form. There can be a part of aging. Was found in older adults without arthritis or other diseases.

The body can create bone spurs more stability with aging joints. Bone spurs can help redistribute weight to protect the area of cartilage is starting to break down. For some people, bone spurs can really provide benefit.

Complications

Bone spurs can break off from the larger bones. Often the bone spurs have become loose joints will float on or embedded in the lining of the joints (synovium).

The loose bodies may drift into the area between the bones make up the joint - a feeling of something moving joints prevented.

Tests and diagnosis

If you experience joint pain, your doctor will conduct a physical exam to better understand the pain is felt. Maybe around the joint examination to determine exactly where the pain. Sometimes the doctor can feel the thorns bone, bone spurs, although sometimes at the point which can not be easily perceived.

To confirm the diagnosis, the doctor may request a visual inspection of the joints and bones. Some common ways of finding bone spurs include:

X-ray.

Computer tomography (CT).

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Treatments and drugs

There is no specific treatment for bone spurs.

If you do not make the pain of bone spurs or otherwise limit any range of motion joints, may not need treatment. If you need treatment, it is often directed at the underlying problem to prevent joint damage.

Drug
If bone spurs cause pain, your doctor may recommend nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for pain.

Surgery
Bone spurs limited range of motion or cause other problems that limit mobility may require surgery. The option of surgery will depend on where the bone spurs and specific situation. For example, the bone spurs are often excluded as part of a comprehensive surgery for arthritis. If you have arthritis in the elbow, for example, the surgeon may remove bone spurs.

Surgery to remove bone spurs can be done in an open process, which means that the surgeon cut open the skin around the joint to access the joints. Or promote bone removal can be performed arthroscopically, which means the surgeon makes a small incision to insert the special surgical tools. During laparoscopic surgery, the surgeon uses a tiny camera to see inside the joint.