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Symptoms of Bone Spurs and Osteophytes

Where your bone spurs are located determines where you'll feel pain and whether you'll experience any other signs or symptoms.

For instance, bones spurs on the surfaces of the vertebra in your spine can push against your nerves, causing intermittent or constant pain.

Loose Bodies and Joint Locking

Bone spurs can also break off from the larger bone, becoming what doctors call “loose bodies.” Often, bone spurs that have become loose bodies will float in your joint or become embedded in the lining of the joint.

Loose bodies can drift into the areas in between the bones that make up your joint, getting in the way and causing intermittent locking — a sensation that something is preventing you from moving your joint. This joint locking can come and go as the loose bodies move into and out of the way of your joint.

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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.