Half-lying and half-sitting are types of wrong postures that will make your bones degenerate early and lead to bone spurs. To prevent it, you must pay attention to your posture in daily activities, daily habits and should exercise more to avoid bone spurs.
Bone spurs are a common degenerative bone disease. It is a natural degenerative process. The official medical name is Bone Hyperplasia, the joints of the human body need to bear a certain amount of pressure and activity. As age increases, the joint resistance to pressure also weaken.
Cartilage and joint are easy to wear down, and the soft tissues near the joints (such as ligaments) will slowly calcify and harden, forming bone hyperplasia, or bone spurs. If the bone spurs do not press on the nerve root or muscle tissue, there will be no pain. But unfortunately, if the cervical spine nerves are compressed by bone spurs, in addition to neck pain, it will also cause numbness of the hands. As for the compression of the lumbar spinal nerves, it will cause low back pain and foot pain.
Obese people are more susceptible to bone spurs than others because their spine or body joints need to bear a lot of weight. Excessive pressure on the bones and soft tissues will make the bone spurs degenerate faster, and the nerves will be easily compressed.
In addition, some people who often do labor work (such as bending over to carry, handling things) also have a greater chance of increasing bone spurs, pressure on joints, or incorrect postures for a long time (such as bending upper back to sit (Or playing with the phone for a long time, or playing with the computer for a long time), the bone spurs between the joints are more likely to grow irregularly, and it is easier to press on the nerves causing low back pain, therefore, it is not necessarily the elderly who suffer from bone spurs, and young people also suffer from this spinal disease.
- When carrying or picking up things on the ground, keep your low back upright, and don’t bend frequently to increase the load on your spine.
- When sitting, keep your low back close to the back of the chair as much as possible, and avoid a upper back protrude posture, which will put pressure on the cervical and lumbar spine.
- Calcium and magnesium are the main elements to maintain strong bones. Green leafy vegetables are rich in calcium and easy to absorb. Others such as tofu, beans, nuts, etc. are also good source to maintain bone health. Magnesium is present in most foods, and a balanced daily diet is sufficient.
- Do more exercises to enhance the mobility of the joints and muscles, and prevent joint discomfort. Swimming, Pilates, walking, and other activities are most suitable.
To treat bone spurs, the patient can go to a chiropractor for a chiropractic manual correction method to ease out the bone spurs that compress nerves or muscles, thereby reducing the pain of the affected area. This method does not require drugs and injections. Research reports show that the treatment course takes 8 to 12 times for the patient’s symptoms to improve significantly.