In recent years, both medical personnel and patients have been paying more attention to osteophytes, especially some middle-aged and elderly people, who are worried when they find osteophytes in certain parts of the body during physical examinations, believing that osteophytes are incurable and can cause paralysis, so they look for medicine everywhere, and in order to cure this disease, they make a lot of money and take a lot of medicine, but with little effect. There are also some medical professionals who diagnose osteophytes as proliferative arthritis as soon as they see them on the film, causing a lot of psychological pressure on patients. Is osteophytes really that scary? Let us first have a proper understanding of osteophytes. First of all, it is important to realize that osteophytes are a natural phenomenon of human aging. As we grow older, generally after the age of thirty-five, the human skeleton will undergo degenerative changes of varying degrees, but most people have no obvious symptoms or signs. There is no need to be overly nervous after discovering that there is osteophytes, and as long as they do not cause symptoms, they can be treated without any treatment, and treatment will be considered only after the corresponding symptoms appear. Moreover, the disease is not incurable and can be eliminated or alleviated with proper treatment.