Can bone spur be cured? My father is still at work.

Bone spurs are bone warts.

This entry is provided and edited by the Clinicians' Popular Science Project of Health and Family Planning Commission/Encyclopedia Medical Network.

Osteowarts, also known as bone spurs, are neither completely composed of bones nor as sharp as thorns. The correct medical name should be osteophyte.

The cause of disease

With the increase of age, articular cartilage gradually degenerates, cell elasticity decreases, and bone and joint wear unconsciously, especially the damaged articular cartilage of neck, waist, knee joint, heel and large activity, which is difficult to repair because there is no blood vessel to supply nutrition. At this time, the blood circulation around articular cartilage is relatively strong, and compensatory cartilage growth will occur, which is a precursor to hyperosteogeny. After a long time, the hyperplastic cartilage calcifies again, which is hyperosteogeny. This is a natural aging phenomenon. Generally, the bony spur is long, indicating that this person's spine has entered the aging stage.

Osteowart is not a patent for the elderly. Many people have to sit and stand for a long time because of the change of working methods. If the posture is not correct, it is easy to make the young spine degenerate prematurely and induce osteopetrosis.

primary

It is more common, mostly after middle age, and occurs in load-bearing joints such as knee joint, neck, lumbar spine and ankle joint. It is mainly formed by long-term wear, articular cartilage degeneration, cracking, softening or falling off, bone exposure, tissue proliferation around cartilage and so on.

assistant

Rare, secondary to congenital or acquired joint deformity, injury, inflammation, can occur in young adults.

clinical picture

The symptoms of osteophyte discomfort are not obvious. If the wart only compresses the nearby nerve root or spine, it may cause symptoms such as body rigidity, inflexibility, pain, redness, paralysis, joint deformation, muscle weakness and so on.

Main pain characteristics:

1. Cervical vertebrae

Neck and back ache, arm ache, finger numbness.

2. Lumbar vertebrae

Low back pain is limited. You need to sit and rest and exercise gently before you can stand up and walk.

Step 3: Knee

Knee joint swelling, pain and weakness, getting up in the morning or standing up after sitting and resting, local stiffness and pain, unable to walk immediately, going up and down stairs or walking too much, and the symptoms are aggravated. It is difficult for people with stagnant water to squat and stand up, and severe night pain affects sleep.

3 check

The diagnosis of spur can be made by radiological examination and electrical diagnosis. Let's introduce it in detail:

X ray examination

Including anterior, lateral, oblique, forward bending and backward bending, so as to understand the situation of the spine.

2. Nuclear magnetic resonance photography

This is a non-invasive and non-radioactive examination, which can clearly distinguish cartilage from nerve.

3. Spinal cord puncture photography

Inject water-soluble developer into the spinal canal to see if the nerve is compressed or compressed.

4. Computed tomography

It is best to cooperate with myelography to clearly see the compression of spinal cord or nerve. In addition, nerve compression caused by hard bone spurs or cartilage can only be distinguished by better machine resolution.

5. Electrical diagnosis

Including electromyography and nerve conduction velocity, as tools to assist physical examination and medical history diagnosis. The main function of this kind of electric diagnosis is to confirm the significance of abnormal phenomena found in physical examination, and also help to determine the anatomical location of symptoms, so as to distinguish the pathological causes of overlapping symptoms.

diagnose

Diagnosis can be made according to detailed laboratory examination.

treat cordially

During acute or chronic activity, it is necessary to stay in bed properly, but it must be pointed out that if conditions permit, you should get out of bed as soon as possible and stick to functional exercise. When the pain of patients with hyperosteogeny is severe, drug treatment should be given priority to, supplemented by rehabilitation treatment. Because drugs have side effects, they should not be taken for a long time. In the chronic and stable periods, physical therapy and appropriate activities should be given priority to. For intractable bone warts, immunotherapy or liquid nitrogen cryotherapy can be given. Due to pain, with the passage of time, the functions of many systems in the whole body have changed. Therefore, in the process of rehabilitation, it is necessary to treat the whole body so that the function of the whole system can be mobilized, restored and enhanced.