BONE SPURES--had x-rays taken was told i had bone spurs-is their any alternative besides surgury?

Question

pain use to come and go-now it is a constant pain. I think it is from all the hitting and banging on my job-they say it is not-it's degenerative-it just happens to some people out no where. is that possible to just wake one morning with bone spurs-never doing any physical activity or anything

Answer 1

Bone spurs can occur in several places, most commonly in the heels.  Repetitive trauma, or standing on concrete floors can cause inflammation and microscopic tears in the ligament that maintains the arch on the bottom of your foot. (called the plantar fascia)  Calcium deposits sometimes form in chronically inflamed tendons and ligaments.

The pain isn't necessarily chronic.  It often settles down after a time.  Using pads or heel cups will help keep the pressure off.  Massaging the foot and keeping it flexible might help.  Physios and some others have ultrasonic machines that may pulverize the calcium and help the ligament regain its elasticity.

Using anti-inflammatory like ASA or Ibuprofen will help suppress the chronic inflammation and fight the pain.

Surgery is not done that I have ever heard of.

Answer 2

Bone spurs are actually a deficiency of calcium which causes the body to leach calcium from the bone.  As the calcium is being leached, it forms an eruption.  This eruption is the bone spur.

The bone spurs can be dissolved by using 10-20 OsteoMatrix plus 30 Alfalfa Complex.  This can take place within a few days.  

Answer 3

It really does depend on where they are.

Surgery isn't routinely used to treat Osteophytic growths unless they are impinging on tissues dangerously or dramatically affecting your quality of life.

Manual therapy and exercise therapy helps.

You don't just wake up in the morning with bony growth that have appeared overnight. it is a gradual process but it is entirely possible that you notice them over night when the compensation mechanisms in the tissues start to fail and you start feeling pain. This can sometimes be dramatic

Answer 4

try taking vitamin D supplements.  They help you use calcium better so that you don't get deposits where they aren't supposed to be.  Spending time in the sun without sunscreen will help to make your own vitamin D.

Answer 5

Where are the spurs located?  I had a bone spur in my heel-painful as all get out!  I started using a heel pad with a hole in it, helped some.  Then I went to a Chiropractor and had electric stim three times a week-no more pain.  I had stim for about two weeks and now I just go once a month.  I am pain free.  

I just woke up one day with horrendous heel pain.  I think it just appears one day.  Good luck