The treatment of bone spur in the thumb mainly includes conservative treatment and surgery.
1. Conservative treatment: If the patient does not have any symptoms, usually no treatment is needed; if there is local pain and discomfort, firstly, reduce the activity of the thumb, secondly, you can carry out hot compresses, massage, physiotherapy and other ways to ease the pain, you can also take ibuprofen, loxoprofen and other medicines to reduce the inflammation of the local area; patients with intractable pain can also be subjected to localized closure treatment.
2. Surgery: If the symptoms are not relieved after the conservative treatment mentioned above, or if the bone spur site has serious pressure symptoms, surgical intervention can be considered, and the surgical method is mainly based on bone spur resection; if there is serious soft tissue adhesion around the bone spur, the soft tissue around the bone spur can be loosened at the same time of removing the bone spur.
The same disease, the patient’s physical condition is different, different stages of the disease, the treatment method is different, should be standardized under the guidance of the doctor for treatment. All of the above medications should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid self-medication.