在体格检查期间，医生可能会用手检查您的关节，以确定疼痛之处。医生也可能会要求进行 X 线或其他影像学检查以查看您的关节和骨骼。

如果您的骨刺引起疼痛，医生可能会建议您使用非处方止痛药，例如对乙酰氨基酚（Tylenol 等）、布洛芬（Advil、Motrin IB 等）或萘普生钠（Aleve 等）。

Physical therapy can help strengthen muscles around the joints. It also can help you become more flexible. This eases pain and helps you move better.

Some people with painful bone spurs due to osteoarthritis may benefit from surgery if other treatments don't work. Surgery might include removing bone spurs or replacing an affected joint. It depends on where the bone spurs are, how painful they are and how much they limit movement.

If you are overweight and have osteoarthritis of the hips or knees, weight loss may help ease bone spur pain. Even a small amount of weight loss may help.

Exercise can help people lose extra weight. It also can make muscles around joints stronger. Types of exercise that can help include walking, biking and swimming.

您可能要先就诊家庭医生，他可能会将您转诊给专门诊断和治疗关节疾病的医生（风湿病医生）。

以下信息可以帮助您做好就诊准备。

您可以向医生咨询以下问题。您可以随时询问其他问题。

医生可能会询问您一些问题，包括：