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Maintaining a healthy body weight and reducing stress on one's joints are steps individuals can take to reduce the chance of bone spurs.
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What is the cause of calcific spurs?
Bone spurs are caused by continuous pressure, rubbing, or stress on a bone in your body. It's a is a bony growth formed on normal bone. Bone spurs are commonly found on feet, hands and knees.
Can you get bone spurs in your hip?
Yes.
What are neurocentral osteophytes?
bone spurs
What does osteophytic lipping and spurring mean?
Bone Spur
What is evidence posterior osteophytes?
There are bone spurs on the back of the bone being studied.
What is the treatment for getting rid of bone spurs?
Many people have been able to eliminate bones spurs with a certain calcium magnesium supplement. Visit the related links. Sorry but the only cure for a bone spur is to have it removed. There are no drugs or supplements that can remove bone spurs. Bone spurs are an overgrowth of bone. Any thing you take that would remove a bone spur would damage bone period. There are however treatments that can lessen the symptoms of bone spurs. Such as ice packs, rest, anti-inflammatories both natural and drugs, orthotics and cortisone injections.
What are bone spurs and how do they affect people?
A bone spur is a bony growth formed on a normal bone, or what is sometimes called an "extra bone". They affect you by causing mild soreness to extreme discomfort. How the effect people depends on the location. Bone spurs on the knees and shoulders can effect the range of motion of the joint. Bone spurs on the spine can cause pain and numbness to travel down the legs or arms.
Little painful pieces of bone chips on bottom of your foot?
You may have bone 'spurs'.
Is cancer caused by bone spurs?
Nobody really knows what causes cancer, but probably not bone spurs. They are fairly common and most people only have pain and inflammation from them.
What type of arthritis is degenerative and creates bone spurs?
Degenerative arthritis is another name for Osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis will create bone spurs but then so will other forms of arthritis.
Where are bone spurs located?
Anywhere with venerable bone areas that have been broken or have been weakened. Since most bone spurs are caused by osteoarthritis or calcification of tendons and ligaments they are usually found around joints.
How can bone disease be cured or prevented?
Inject the bone that is diseased
