Spinal Bone Spurs

Cervical Herniated Disc

Knee Osteoarthritis With Osteophytes

Osteophytes bone spurs Symptoms

If your spine MRI says “disc osteophyte complex,” do not chalk it up to “just aging.” This is a targeted repair response to microinstability. As discs lose proteoglycans they dehydrate, lose height, and develop annular fissures; load shifts to the vertebral rim, endplates, uncovertebral joints, and facets. The spine tries to stabilize by laying down fibrocartilage that ossifies into marginal bone spurs (endochondral ossification). Paired with a bulging or herniated disc, those osteophytes can na

DISH-phagia: Cervical Osteophytes & Swallowing Difficulty

Cervical stenosis