There is no such thing as the best way to treat osteophytes clinically. The cause of osteophytes is usually due to overloading and overstrain of the joints, which can be treated by general treatment, medication and surgical resection.
1. General treatment: Osteomalacia is usually caused by weight gain or overloading, which leads to increased weight bearing on the joints and the emergence of new bone spurs around the vertebral joints. Bone spurs irritate the surrounding nerves or soft tissues and cause pain. Symptoms can be relieved by changing lifestyle habits, avoiding prolonged sitting and standing, resting with appropriate activities, braking, bed rest, and physiotherapy and hot compresses.
2. Medication: If there are mild pain and joint limitation symptoms, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as celecoxib and diclofenac sodium ointment can be applied locally to alleviate the symptoms and reduce the pain.
3. Surgery: For bone spurs compressing nerves or tissues, resulting in severe pain and obvious joint limitation symptoms, then consider the need for surgical removal of bone spurs, common surgical procedures such as minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery, artificial joint replacement and so on.
When bone growth occurs, you should go to the regular hospital in time, have a routine examination, have the doctor clarify the cause of the disease, and develop a standardized plan for treatment.