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Why do some bone spurs return after surgery to remove them?
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Arthritis worsening: Bone spurs may often be more of a secondary phenomena of an ubderlying disease process such as arthritis. Simply removing the bone spurs does not remove the underlying process, but merely takes away the symptomatic spurs. Unfortunately, the bone spurs may recure as the underlying arthritis progresses.
Answered 12/27/2018
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No short ans. : Bone spurs occur as a result of progressive remodeling, usually in response to increased physiologic stress on the bone as a result of cartilage loss (arthritis). Removing them does not change the physiology of the arthritic joint, thus they tend to recur.
Answered 12/27/2018
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