Bone spurs on spine

Bone spurs on spine
The medical term to stimulate the bone osteophytes. A ostephyte occurs when normal bone is exposed to abnormal stress and grows larger than normal. Osteophytes is a marker of X-rays and spinal degeneration is a normal finding in the aging process.

About 42% of the population, degeneration and development of bone spurs lead to symptoms of neck and back pain, radiating arm and leg pain and weakness in the limbs.

The spine consists of thirty-two separate vertebral segments that are separated by intervertebral discs based on collagen and ligaments. These discs are shock absorbers and allow some flexibility and movement for each segment of the spine. The structure offers a full range of motion around the axis of the spine, especially in the neck (cervical) and lower back (lumbar vertebrae).

Movement between each segment is limited by the ligaments External Hard Drive and joints that move (articulate) at each spinal level (facet joint). At each session, just behind the disk of a pair of nerve roots exiting the spinal canal. The exciting opening (foramen) that surrounds the nerve (front disc, the joints above and below) are relatively low.

Traumatic injuries of the spine with the usual stresses of life cause degeneration in the discs and joints of the spine. With age, injury, poor posture is not the damage accumulated in the bones or joints of the spine:

• When the disc material slowly consumes, the ligaments loosen and excess motion occurs in common.

• in the body naturally and necessarily thickens the ligaments that hold the bones together.

• Over time, ligaments tend to calcify, resulting in the formation of bone spurs.

• the central canal of the spinal foramina thicken their ligaments, compression of the parts of the nervous system, causing clinical symptoms.