Can bone be enlarged? Is bone growth a disease state? You may be puzzled by the general and certain questions I ask. In fact, the answer is exactly the opposite, please listen to my following one by one: uncover the truth of osteophytes osteophytes, commonly known as “bone spurs”. In fact, this term, not appropriate, easy to cause misunderstanding, it seems that the pain is something like thorns stinging skin. In fact, the bones will not be like bamboo shoots outward, not like the cactus outward growth of thorns, in fact, the essence of osteophytes is the human skeleton of a kind of “aging” phenomenon, is the body’s physiological protective compensatory response. The shape of the human skeleton is not regular, there are a lot of protrusions at the end of the bone, each protruding part of the muscle and tendon or ligament fascia and other tissues attached, connecting the bone with the bone, when the human body undergoes degenerative changes, muscles, ligaments, laxity, joints, instability, which is pulled or torn resulting in acute and chronic injuries. The human body in order to repair and adapt to these changes, to restore the new state of balance, after repeated injury and repair at the same time coexist process, in the bone attachment point calcium will be deposited, in order to strengthen its firmness. Over time, the original tendons, ligaments, soft tissue calcification of the phenomenon, or even ossification, to achieve an increase in the weight-bearing area of the joints, reduce the pressure borne by the unit area, so that the joints are more stable, delay joint degeneration. It can be said that the phenomenon of osteophytes is a kind of self-protection mechanism of the organism, which is a kind of instinct of the organism. Osteomalacia is not a disease From the previous description, it is easy to see that since osteophytes are just a physiological protective compensatory response, it should not be considered a disease state. Osteomalacia is only in the imaging is not yet developed in the past, did not recognize the real cause of it, in the simple X-ray film, appears to grow outward excess bone, as well as a one-sided single view of the plane image for the pointed cool thorn-like things. In fact, in today’s modern advanced diagnostic techniques are improving, such as: CT (electronic computed tomography), MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) came out, have unveiled its mystery, from the three-dimensional structural point of view, the bone has been far from what spiny hyperplasia results. So let’s not still hold on to the old, outdated view of things today, which would only be misleading, deceiving ourselves and deceiving others. The concept of osteophytes is the formation of hundreds of years of misconceptions, has been deeply rooted, not overnight and one or two articles can change people’s perception. But there is always a need to plead its grievances and return it to its positive side, which is my original intention. Is bone growth really painful? All of us know that there is often pain in the area of bone growths, and this is true. In fact, osteophytes are not necessarily linked to pain, they are not a direct cause of pain, some people have osteophytes but have no symptoms, it is only the occasional x-ray that is easily detected that is taken as the culprit. Therefore, if your doctor says you have osteophytes, there is no need to panic. In fact, the site of osteophytes have pain, swelling, limb movement limitation and other symptoms, so that people feel “uncomfortable”, because of the bone attached to the tissue by the pulling damage, resulting in aseptic inflammation of local tissues, irritation and involvement of the nerves and blood vessels, only to produce clinical symptoms. Generally in this case, most of the diagnosis is chronic injury disease of the sports system, such as: tenosynovitis, tennis elbow, supraspinous ligamentitis and so on, rather than diagnosed as osteophytes. Therefore, we say that pain is also not caused by osteophytes, and that the presence of osteophytes is not parallel to the production of clinical symptoms. It is wrong to assume that the presence of osteophytes will inevitably lead to pain. When is osteophytes involved in the constitution of a disease Although osteophytes are a normal physiological phenomenon of the human body and a self-protective mechanism of the body, sometimes this reaction can play an unfavorable side. Only when osteophytes develop to a certain extent, the proliferation of bone is relatively large, and osteophytes occur in the back of the vertebral body, together with the protruding intervertebral discs and hypertrophied ligamentum flavum make the spinal canal become narrow, or in the side of the vertebral body to make the intervertebral foramen become smaller, and compression of the spinal cord, nerves, blood vessels, so that the person produces pain or symptoms, then it can be considered to be involved in the composition of the disease state, and need to be treated to take osteophytes Osteomalacia should be treated as a disease. However, it should be diagnosed as a related disease, such as cervical spondylosis, lumbar spinal stenosis, etc. Osteomalacia is only a pathological phenomenon or a causative factor in the disease, but never a disease. Osteomalacia can not appear as a diagnostic term. Nowadays, there are many “charlatan doctors” in the society, boasting that they have “ancestral secret recipes”, which can remove bone spurs and cure osteophytes, which are all nonsense, and have only one purpose, which is to cheat money. Bone growths can be surgically removed? Where patients with back and leg pain, some doctors always inferred that: your back and leg pain seems to be long “bone spurs”, take a film to see it! A check, really so. Bone spurs, bone spurs! It sounds scary, “Doctor, I’m only in my 50’s, how can I have bone spurs?” “Doctor, I’ve heard that if you have bone spurs, you can’t get rid of them with medicine, so it’s over, isn’t it?” Diagnosed long bone spurs patients, all worried, worried; general doctors also think that the problem is tricky, can not help, which inadvertently increased the patient’s fear of osteophytes, blurring people’s understanding of the justice of osteophytes. Many people find that there are bone spurs on their X-ray, they are very nervous and concerned about whether they can surgically remove the bone spurs to cut off the root. Although surgery can remove bone spurs, it is limited to those who have too big bone burdens or whose joints are often “stuck” and are ineffective in conservative treatment, or those who have severe joint pain, deformity, joint instability, flexion contracture and severe muscular atrophy. Surgery can be performed to remove bone spurs or joint rats, arthroplasty, joint fusion or artificial joint replacement. However, surgery itself is also a kind of trauma, and should be used only when the disease is at an advanced stage and the joint degenerates to the point of complete loss of function. Osteomalacia and Physical Exercise One of the biggest concerns of people suffering from osteomalacia is whether or not they will be able to exercise in the future, and how to do so. The answer is yes, but the exercise must be moderate and not too strenuous. Many people with osteophytes have no symptoms, which is related to their regular labor and exercise. Regular exercise and participate in sports can make the bones become thick, muscular blood circulation is sufficient, not one osteophytes, and not exercise people, muscle nutrition lack of atrophy, decreased elasticity, easy to fatigue injuries, and the emergence of osteophytes, and its pain is also strong. But exercise should pay attention to the following points: 1, avoid long-term strenuous exercise, which can make the bones and the surrounding soft tissues uneven force, overload, is one of the causes of osteomalacia, will also aggravate osteomalacia. Obese patients should control their diet, increase activities to reduce weight, in order to help reduce the weight of the joints, which is favorable to the recovery of the disease. 2, in the acute phase of pain aggravation, to minimize the amount of activity of the affected joints, the patient can be appropriate bed rest, through rest to reduce the mechanical stimulation of the affected joints, which is not only effective in preventing further exacerbation of the symptoms, but also for the dissipation of inflammation to create a good condition. To use medication as soon as possible, the use of oral and topical drugs to control the development of the disease. 3, the condition in the recovery period, to avoid moisture, cold and other environmental factors stimulation, because these adverse environmental factors on the joints, muscles, nerves and other tissues can be induced by inflammation, but also to avoid overwork, because overwork will stimulate the joints and surrounding tissues again inflammation, which led to the recurrence of the disease. In addition, you can increase outdoor activities, exercise, and try to avoid long-term bed rest. If patients work in a fixed position for a long time, they should pay attention to change the position during breaks. 4, the prevalence of osteoporosis increases with age, in order to ensure that the normal needs of the elderly bone metabolism, the elderly calcium intake should be increased compared with the average adult, should eat high calcium foods, such as more milk, eggs, soy products, vegetables and fruits, if necessary, to supplement calcium. Also increase the intake of multivitamins, such as vitamins A and D.