I often hear patients in the clinic expressing great concern about the “osteophytes” in their photo results. In fact, osteophytes are a manifestation of the body’s compensatory joint instability as the body ages. We should clearly understand that as we age, the joints of both the limbs and the spine will experience varying degrees of decreased mobility due to aging. This is a natural law, something that cannot be reversed by any doctor or any medicine. Therefore, I remind everyone to accept in their hearts the established fact that “we have to have osteophytes when we get older”. What can doctors do for their patients? 1. If the enlarged bone compresses the surrounding nerves and causes numbness and weakness in the limbs, the surgeon can remove the enlarged bone to decompress the nerves and relieve the symptoms; 2. These treatments are not intended to “eliminate bone spurs” and “cure osteophytes”. Patients should not step into the misunderstanding of media advertisements: many advertisements that say they can “eliminate bone spurs” to cure “osteophytes” have no scientific basis and are designed to attract patients to buy drugs. First of all, from the medical point of view, osteophytes are not a disease and are not diagnosed as such, but are only diagnosed when they compress nerves or cause severe pain; secondly, from the point of view of common sense, as a natural law of the human body, it is impossible to be reversed. Thus, we remind everyone not to be frightened by a paper image diagnosis on osteophytes, because: osteophytes are not a disease!