Osteomalacia, also known as bone spurs or bone redundancy, is a degenerative phenomenon that occurs slowly in most of the bones and joints of the human body, and it is inevitable that osteomalacia will occur when the human body grows and ages, just sooner or later. In outpatient treatment, we encounter many patients with back and leg pain, cervical spondylosis, and joint pain, who are worried once they are found to have osteophytes on their films and are looking for a cure for osteophytes everywhere, and there are many specialties and drugs for osteophytes in the society. There are many different opinions, and some even claim that their products can soften and remove bone spurs, which is actually an irresponsible statement that misleads the majority of patients. The human body can successively experience a series of aging phenomena around the age of 40, and osteophytes are just one of them, which is the adaptive mechanism of the body to degeneration. The natural aging of the human body or excessive strain, causing degenerative changes, joint instability, local stress loss of balance. In order to adapt to such changes, the body increases the strength of the ligaments in the form of osteophytes (possibly by ossification of the proximal ends of the ligaments to form bone spurs) to strengthen the stability of the joints and maintain the normal function of the joints. This process is long and progresses slowly. The speed varies depending on the physical condition and intensity of physical work. Those with low physical fitness and heavy strain have an early onset and fast progression. Most osteophytes appear around the joints or ligamentous areas and do not cause pain, numbness and other symptoms in the body. It is only when there is excessive hyperplasia in important areas such as the posterior edge of the vertebral body and the small joints of the vertebral body, and compression of the spinal cord, blood vessels and nerves does cause symptoms such as pain, numbness and dizziness, that the disease is diagnosed. Many people believe that it is the osteophytes that cause pain by compressing the nerves, which is an incorrect argument, and the various treatments taken on this basis are also inaccurate. In patients with osteophytes with bone and joint pain, the pain disappears after treatment with conservative therapy and the osteophytes are still there and do not decrease at all. In fact, most osteoarthritis pain precedes or is synchronized with osteophytes. Bone and joint pain is not the result of osteophytes. Most elderly people have severe osteophytes and stiff joints, but do not have any pain because the osteophytes have stabilized the joints. With ageing and excessive strain, the human body ages, ligaments relax, joint cartilage becomes thin, bone atrophy, disc loss expansion and other causes of joint instability, internal and external stress changes in the joint, damage to the joint, ligaments, the formation of inflammatory response, pain-causing substances escape, accumulation, and eventually cause pain response. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, Chinese herbal medicines that activate blood circulation and resolve blood stasis, closure, physiotherapy, massage, acupuncture and traction can improve local blood circulation, which is effective in promoting inflammation and relieving pain. However, bone spurs cannot be removed or softened. If the bone spurs are removed, the joint will become more unstable and the symptoms will be worse. Therefore, it is unnecessary to treat osteophytes as a disease, and it is impossible to soften and remove osteophytes in the human body by drugs. Only cervical spine osteophytes leading to spinal stenosis, serious compression of the spinal cord and invalidated by strict regular conservative treatment of spinal cord type cervical spondylosis, suitable for surgery to a large hospital of a certain size. Do not listen to advertisements and go to informal hospitals for treatment.