Bone spurs: do you get them and where?

Thanks nighteen_gale for your encouragement and good advice as always. That's a good idea to take a hot bath before exercise I will try that later and maybe throw in some Epsom salts as well! 

Kind regards 

Evie48

@Evie48‍ 

 Magnesium  Sulfate crystals  instead of Epsom salt, and relax in the hot bath for 20 minutes.

Good luck

Nineteen_gale

Has any one suffered with bone spurs in cervical spine? My neck is so painful even though I do neck exercises, it does not help. Some times when I turn suddenly, it catches in my neck and that is agonizing. Has any one had any treatment for such spurs and did it help? I would be interested in hearing that.

Thank you

I have bone spurs in both shoulders, they were agony but I have had steroid injections into both and now they are much more comfortable!

@jacci48‍ 

Thank you Jackie. Unfortunately, the professionals do not like to inject in the neck as its too risky with Jugular being present in the neck. I do all the neck exercises given by the physio but nothing helps. i can not take anti inflammatory so I just suffer and continue with the exercises. I had spurs in my knees which were power washed off with the key hole surgery and that gave me relief.

Hi @jacci48‍ I have a rotary cuff injury and two bone spurs growing through the shoulder in different places. They are very sore. My GP wanted to refer me to the surgeons only to be told that I could only be referred by a physiotherapist after being assessed.  Six months later I had an assessment by a physiotherapist who asked why was I referred to physiotherapy when I should of been referred directly to the surgical team. After checking the referral he saw the by GP had tried that course.  It's a ridiculous waste of everyone's time, energy and money not to mention being in pain for that length of time. Now I'm being referred to the surgical unit and have no idea of how long I'll have to wait for an appointment.  It's just so frustrating although an effective way to ensure the timescales are achieved!!  Oh well at least I'm getting nearer to the second stage of the referral process! Lol. I hope that your bone spurs have successfully been treated.  Six years ago I had the same problem and had to be operated on which was very successful.  I have to use two walking sticks which commonly causes this type of injury and the fact that I have arthritis is most of my joints.  Still nothing can be done about the bone spurs developing but I manage to delay the rotary cuff injury returning as my consultant suggested that I continue doing the physio exercises every day. This delayed the development of the injury returning by 6-7 years longer than the predicted 1 year so I was pleased about that. Physiotherapy is the answer to so many problems it really works !  Good luck @jacci48‍ xx

It is indeed a norm these days, even for knees and hips. The consultants will not see you until you have attended Physiotherapy classes for 6 to 8 weeks, who assess your capabilities and progress, then send the report to your GP who can then refer you to the surgeon or appropriate consultant

Fingers and wrists painful on movement!!! 

Knees (both) and hip. It makes walking very painful

Hip fingers and neck