In the clinic, patients often ask me how to treat osteophytes. Do I need to have the osteophytes surgically removed? How can I cure my pain without removing the osteophytes? I don’t want to have surgery, is there any good treatment in Chinese medicine? These questions are common, indicating that the majority of patients do not know enough about osteophytes, and it is necessary to briefly popularize some knowledge about osteophytes. In fact, osteophytes is a normal defensive reaction of the human body, as people age, bone aging, wear and tear, degeneration, hyperplasia will become more and more obvious, most cases will not cause symptoms, only when acute injury, chronic strain, or feel the wind, cold, dampness and other external causes, causing local inflammation, joint dislocation, compression, stimulation of local nerves, spinal cord, blood vessels, and other soft tissues, only when the symptoms will appear! It brings pain to people and seriously affects their life and work. Clinical findings, the degree of osteophytes and clinical symptoms are not necessarily proportional to each other, some patients have more obvious osteophytes, but the symptoms are not heavy, or even no symptoms at all; on the contrary, the osteophytes are more mild, but the symptoms are very obvious. Therefore, we treat osteophytes mainly for soft tissue inflammation, adhesion, joint dislocation and other pathological changes, not for osteophytes itself, as long as the inflammation subsides, the joint dislocation is corrected, nerves, blood vessels compression is lifted, the symptoms will be gone. Osteomalacia, also known as “bone spurs”, occurring in the cervical and lumbar vertebrae, knee joints and Achilles and other parts of the most common orthopedic diseases, the vast majority of cases do not require surgical treatment, general Chinese medicine treatment has certain advantages, is now introduced to the three kinds of efficacy of Chinese medicine: 1, Chinese medicine orthopedic massage: Shu tendons and collaterals, activate blood circulation to eliminate blood stasis, to correct the dislocation, release its compression of the nerves, and then the symptoms will be gone. Relieve the compression of the nerve, the effect of immediate effect, no side effects, especially suitable for patients with cervical and lumbar spondylosis. 2, small needle knife therapy: small needle knife is a combination of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture needles and western medicine scalpel product, can play a needle acupuncture dredge meridians and channels, through the pain-free purpose, but also play the role of scalpel to loosen the hyperplasia, adhesion of the role of the tissue, a combination of Chinese and Western, the effect is unique. It is suitable for the treatment of cervical and lumbar spondylosis, knee arthritis, heel pain and other diseases. 3.Chinese medicine internal and external use (Chinese medicine soaking, wet and hot compresses, etc.): activate blood circulation, dispel wind and cold, tonify the kidneys and strengthen the bones, treating the disease at its root and consolidating the effect of treatment.