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How to Treat Bone Spurs

To better understand how to treat bone spurs, it helps to have an explanation of what they are. They are most often a result of spinal arthritis, also known as osteoarthritis of the spine. Each vertebra of your spine is linked to every other vertebra via intervertebral discs and cartilage-covered facet joints. As we age, the protective cartilage surrounding the facet joints begins to degrade, which could make the simplest movements extremely painful.

What Are Bone Spurs

If your body recognizes the weakened state of your spine, it may try to offer a remedy by producing extra growths of smooth bone around the facet joints and on the vertebrae—these growths are called bone spurs. Bones spurs do not help strengthen the spine; rather, they begin to impede on the spinal nerves that are located between the vertebrae. Neural compression causes symptoms such as tenderness, throbbing, limited range of motion, and abnormal stiffness of the joints.

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Treatment Options

If you have spoken with your doctor about how to treat bone spurs, medical suggestions may have included rest, exercise, stretching, physical therapy, and epidural steroid injections. None of these treatments remove bone spurs, however, so pain can return.

Contact Laser Spine Institute (LSI) today to find out more about bone spurs – and the possibility that our outpatient, endoscopic procedures can gently remove your bone spurs and help you rediscover a life without pain. As a first step, we can provide you with a free review of your MRI or CT scan.

Please note: Laser Spine Institute currently does not perform endoscopic procedures on the thoracic spine.