Why does it hurt when I stretch my chin forward?

If your jaw hurts when you move it, you may have a bone spur. Generally, the most common symptom of a bone spur is pain when it moves to this position. However, it is best to go to the hospital for a check-up and actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment. If you rule out the pain being caused by disease and want to relieve the pain, you can generally use Chinese medicine therapy methods, such as acupuncture, massage and other methods to treat it.

Bone spurs do not necessarily need to be treated immediately

Almost every elderly person will develop bone spurs. Bone spurs are useless tissues, just like white hair. They are a common problem for people over 65 years old. People with bone spurs may not have symptoms unless the bone spurs compress the nerves and cause back pain. Treatment is not required when bone spurs are first discovered. However, you can reduce excessive joint activity and perform early maintenance when bone spurs are discovered to prevent the bone spurs from growing larger and causing other clinical symptoms.

Bone irritation, previous trauma, or old age may cause it.

Bone spurs are a clinical phenomenon of bone hyperplasia. As long as the patient undergoes a planar X-ray examination, it can be clearly determined whether the patient has bone spurs, the location of the bone spurs, and the severity of the disease. When a patient has bone spurs, X-rays usually show pointed bony protrusions on the edges of the bones. Because these protruding bones are essentially bone tissue and look like "thorns", they are called "bone spurs".

Many people don’t understand how bone spurs are formed? Bone spurs are the places where bones meet soft tissues. The formation of bone spurs is directly related to excessive physical activity, exercise, and age. Bone spurs may develop when bones are overstimulated, have been injured, or are older. However, bone spurs may not necessarily cause symptoms.

The location of the bone spur affects the symptoms

In clinical practice, many patients never feel any pain despite having spinal bone spurs. This is related to the location of the bone spurs. As long as the bone spurs do not compress the nerves, the symptoms will not be obvious. In other words, the real root of the problem is actually caused by nerve compression. Therefore, when the doctor tells you that you have a bone spur in your spine, you don’t need to worry or be afraid. There is no immediate danger, so you don’t need surgery right away.

A pillow that is too high can easily cause cervical dislocation and bone spurs

When the lumbar spine moves, many muscle groups and ligaments in the waist and back are involved, which exert a pulling and pulling effect on the bones. Over time, this will cause wear and tear at the junction of bones and soft tissues, which will stimulate the growth of bone spurs. In addition, when bone spurs grow on the cervical spine and compress the nerves, because there are many nerve tissues in the neck, discomfort or other symptoms caused by cervical bone spurs are more likely to occur. Therefore, daily maintenance is very important, for example, the pillow should not be too high. A pillow that is too high will cause the physiological curvature of the cervical spine to straighten, the cervical vertebrae to lose their normal position, and the spine to be dislocated. As a result, the ligaments and soft tissues around the cervical spine cannot relax, causing bone spurs to grow on the cervical vertebrae.

Seeking folk remedies may make bone misalignment worse

Many patients have the misconception that "bone spurs are caused by insufficient exercise." In fact, the formation of bone spurs is not related to the frequency of exercise. Older patients must seek professional assistance if they experience abnormal symptoms. Seeking folk remedies on their own may make bone dislocation worse.

In the prevention and treatment of spinal bone spurs, it is necessary to avoid long-term excessively strenuous exercise and activities, reduce injuries to joints and cartilage, and avoid excessive stretching of ligaments and soft tissues. At the same time, to prevent joint degeneration, you should do proper exercise every day. To reduce the degeneration of articular cartilage and repair soft tissue damage, proper treatment is required to relieve the pain caused by bone spurs. If there is severe nerve compression, surgical decompression and fixation will be necessary. Such treatment and rehabilitation require detailed evaluation and diagnosis by professional doctors.