Cervical osteophytes compressing the nerves usually do not heal on their own.
Mild cervical vertebral osteophytes usually do not affect the cervical nerves, but if cervical vertebral osteophytes are severe, they may compress the cervical nerves and cause discomfort in the neck or upper limbs. In most cases, cervical spine degeneration combined with vertebral body edge osteophytes, which in turn stimulate or compress the nerve root to produce a series of clinical manifestations of nerve injury.
For cervical degeneration combined with vertebral osteophytes compression of the nerve, generally will not be self-healing, it is recommended that under the guidance of the doctor to actively carry out related treatment, can be conservative treatment, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, nutritive nerve as well as dehydration and edema medication, if the conservative treatment does not have the effect of the need for surgery, to relieve the compression of the nerve.