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What Causes Osteophytes and Bone Spurs?

Bone spurs and osteophytes often are a reaction to changes in your joints due to diseases and aging—most commonly osteoarthritis.

As osteoarthritis breaks down the cartilage in joints in your spine, your body attempts to repair the loss. In many cases, this means creating new areas of bone along the edges of your existing bones.

Bone Spurs and Stability

Your body may also create bone spurs in an attempt to add stability to the spine.

Bone spur formation is the body’s attempt to increase the surface area of a joint to better distribute weight across a joint surface that has been damaged by arthritis or other conditions.

Unfortunately, this can become a largely wasted effort by our body, as the bone spur itself can become restrictive, impinge on a nerve and cause stenosis.

Bone Spurs and Other Conditions

Bone spurs are the hallmark of other diseases and conditions, including:

Spondylosis: In this condition, osteoarthritis and bone spurs cause degeneration of the bones in your neck (cervical spondylosis) or your lower back (lumbar spondylosis).

Spinal stenosis: Bone spurs can contribute to a narrowing of the bones that make up your spine (spinal stenosis), putting pressure on your spinal cord.

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The Bonati Spine Institute advocates that bone spur and osteophyte patients are well informed. We encourage you to contact us to request more information, to request a no-obligation MRI review, or for a personal telephone consultation. Find out why The Bonati Procedures are considered to be among the world’s best solutions for laser spine surgery.