Bone Spur Causes
There are three major causes of bone spur
Osteoarthritis is the number one cause of bone spurs.
Osteoarthritis affects the cartilage that cushions the ends of bones in your joints.
Over time, this cartilage may wear down and its smooth surface roughens. Eventually, you
may have bone rubbing on bone — resulting in pain due to damage to the ends of your
bones.
Your body usually tries to repair this damage. But the repairs may result instead in
growth of new bone along the sides of the existing bone (bone spurs). This produces
prominent lumps, most often on hands and feet.
Bone spurs may occur anywhere a muscle, tendon or ligament attaches to a bone.
This type of bone spur is the kind that occurs when the attachment of ligaments
or tendons to bone become calcified. Thus occurs often on the bottom of the foot, around
the Achilles Tendon, and in the coroacoacromial ligament of the shoulder can happen
anywhere in the body.
Bone Spurs caused by trauma to a bone or joint.
Truama to a bone or joint can cause damage to the bone. As the body tries to heal this
dammage new bone growth can deveolp causing a bone spur in that location.
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