Many elderly people find that they and their surrounding elderly friends have bone hyperplasia. Especially the lumbar spine, knee joints, and heels are the hardest hit areas for bone hyperplasia. So, is bone hyperplasia terrible? Need treatment? Let’s talk to old friends about bone hyperplasia.
Is bone hyperplasia scary?
Many people think that bone hyperplasia is a disease, but it is not. Bone hyperplasia is a normal aging phenomenon of the human body. Machines will age, so will our various organs and bones. The aging of bones is mainly reflected in low bone density and long bone spurs.
For example, in the lumbar spine, with age, and improper use of the waist, etc., will cause degenerative changes in the muscles, ligaments and other tissues around the spine and joints. Aging, the balance between bones and muscles will be broken at this time, muscles are aging, and when external forces come, the relatively strong lumbar spine has to be borne, but the lumbar spine itself is also aging, and the stability between bones At this time, the human body will find a way to grow some bone spurs at the lumbar joints to maintain the stability of the lumbar spine and resist external forces.
Similarly, the growth of bone spurs in the joints of the cervical spine, knee joints, and heels is to maintain the balance of the joints, not a disease. Therefore, during the physical examination, if an elderly friend finds a bone spur in some part of the body, but there are no symptoms, there is no need to panic.
Bone hyperplasia can also be a disease! This is to be treated!
In most cases, hyperostosis has a protective effect. But after all, it grows later, and there are still some nerves and blood vessels around the joint. Once the bone hyperplasia happens to press on the nerve or blood vessel, it will cause pain and numbness in the joint.
This condition is called osteoarthritis and requires treatment. There are two general treatments. One is conservative therapy, which eliminates aseptic inflammation caused by bone spurs compressing nerves through drugs, acupuncture, etc., such as taking the traditional Chinese medicine Yaotongning to reduce inflammation and relieve pain. Another treatment method is to remove the bone spurs surgically. When the patient has severe low back pain and entrapment, surgery can be considered to remove the osteophyte to relieve the stimulation of the nerve or soft tissue by the osteophyte, so as to relieve the pain and improve the function.
There are many rumors about bone hyperplasia. For example, some people say that certain drugs can dissolve bone spurs, and there are drugs that claim to be able to remove bone spurs. Here are a few rumors about bone hyperplasia to explain to you.
Myth 1: Special drugs can remove or ablate bone spurs
truth : Bone hyperplasia cannot be ablated by drugs. If such drugs really exist in the world, since they can dissolve or pull out bone spurs, then people’s bones will also be melted and pulled out, which is scary to think about. The only way to get rid of a bone spur is surgery, there is no other way.
Rumour 2: Do not supplement calcium for bone hyperplasia, the more you supplement the longer it will be
Fact: Calcium supplementation has nothing to do with bone hyperplasia. Conversely, calcium supplements help your bones better. Calcium deficiency is prone to decreased bone density or osteoporosis, and decreased bone density or osteoporosis can easily lead to bone aging, which is prone to bone hyperplasia. Therefore, calcium deficiency is one of the main reasons for bone aging. Scientific and reasonable calcium supplementation can help to prevent the decrease of bone density and osteoporosis, and delay the speed of bone aging. Therefore, the elderly should pay more attention to calcium supplementation.
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