In the clinic, many people are terrified when they see osteophytes on their X-ray reports and often ask me with the report, “Dr. Cheng, I have osteophytes, what should I do? Can you prescribe some medicine for me? Osteomalacia is actually a normal degenerative phenomenon of human aging due to injury and bleeding of muscles, ligaments, cartilage and other tissues, hematoma mechanization, and formation of spiny or lip-like bones. Osteomalacia is like wrinkles on the face, and generally does not require treatment. In layman’s terms, osteomalacia can be interpreted as “wrinkles” on the bones, which is a phenomenon of aging. Osteomalacia is actually bone growing in places where it shouldn’t be, and the bone that is growing is our own bone. Those drugs that boast of treating osteophytes are bullshit! If it can break down the hyperplastic bone, then it can certainly break down our normal bones, a drug that can break down our normal bones, you dare to eat? This is much more powerful than the poisons in the jungle novels! Some people should say at this time, I have osteophytes, very painful, after eating the drugs given to me, no more pain, how do you say the drugs can not cure it? In fact, I would say that most of the drugs you take are painkillers or hormones, which only stop the pain and do not remove your enlarged bones. So, once again, those drugs that boast of curing osteophytes are just nonsense. Bone growths in the spine generally grow in the front of the vertebral body and rarely produce symptoms and require little or no treatment. However, if the spurs irritate the local soft tissues and nerve tissues and produce symptoms, it is called osteophytes, which are usually found in the knee joint and the heel of the foot.