Bone spurs

[Turin]

Any of you guys experience bone spurs on your vertebrae?
I've got them on my C4 - C7 and it's making riding a bike with clip ons a sucky proposition.

[frozengoose]

Yeah, I know the feeling,  I've got bone spurs, bulging discs, and stenosis (narrowed openings) thru-out my neck. It's made worse when you bow your neck back from riding bent over with clip ons. I had to quit riding my mtn. bike from this. My T had short. low bars when I got it, so when riding it became an issue, put on a pair of Triumph "cow horn" bars from an old 650, then bent them back with a pipe bender so my riding position was more upright. End of neck problems. Maybe put some risers on the clips ons?

The other thing I did was get a cervical pillow. Found them online. It holds your neck in place when you're sleeping so the neck muscles and nerves relax. A game changer for me. Good luck with that.

[john fish]

Yeah, spurs, stenosis, spondylosis.  I love my V11 Sport but will probably have to sell it.  It also makes looking around in the car a bit of a problem.

Everyone is different, of course, but I just got done with a couple weeks of physical therapy and it really didn't do any good. 

[Chuck in Indiana]

Yeah, spurs, stenosis, spondylosis.  I love my V11 Sport but will probably have to sell it.  It also makes looking around in the car a bit of a problem.

Everyone is different, of course, but I just got done with a couple weeks of physical therapy and it really didn't do any good.

Two weeks isn't Jack, Fish..

[john fish]

Yeah, I hear you, Chuck, but it was four weeks (unclear on my part) and it's hard to do therapy on impinged nerves.  And, to be honest, I should have chosen a different therapist.  The facility that I went to just wasn't well equipped.  Nice people, though.

[Turin]

I let it slide until my left arm quit cooperating while doing curls at the gym.
My chiropractor  told me my options are either surgery, or to suck it up and let the bones grow and fuse together.
I dropped off my MRI scans at a specialist, so I'm waiting on that assessment. Any of you guys get the surgery? They grind off the spurs?

[frozengoose]

Went to a "specialist" after seeing my regular orthopedic Dr. Basically got the same recommendation, the risks of surgery out weighed the potential benefits. But I have noticed some loss of muscle mass on my right arm, that's the side where the "pinched nerve" in the neck is most painful, so not sure where that's going to end. As I mentioned earlier, the cervical pillow really helped ease the pain and now I can sleep better, the neck pain used to wake me up a lot.

[80CX100]

From crazy sh*t in my younger years and decades of work in front of a computer (which is horrible for your neck), I developed deteriorating discs and a bad hinge at the base of my neck.

Nerve pain has no equal, in the big picture mine was minor, but flaming razor blades up and down my right arm became the norm,I gave up clip ons & guitar for a while,it wasn't looking good from the road.

Luckily I got a great Chiro, multi disciplined, who settled the nerves down and set me off with a game plan for self maintenance.

I stretch and do self traction on a regular basis, whenever I happen to think of it many times a day.

I get some strange looks when I'm out and need to stretch and crack my neck back into proper position, but you can't put a price on a pain free quality of life.

We're all different, my younger brother has similar issues, but he's following the normal medical prescribed game plan, and he's suffering because of it, hunched over in pain while he awaits treatment with his name somewhere on a surgeons waiting list   

Good luck with it

Kelly

[Huzo]

Bone spurs...
As a painful debilitating condition.

[kingoffleece]

I had all that stuff in my neck for YEARS.  Horrible pain and lost days.
Had the surgery and it was very successful.  Double fusion.  Wish I had done it 15 year ago.  After 20 years , chiropractic no  longer provided any benefit.

[larrys]

I stretch and do self traction on a regular basis, whenever I happen to think of it many times a day.

I get some strange looks when I'm out and need to stretch and crack my neck back into proper position, but you can't put a price on a pain free quality of life.

We're all different, my younger brother has similar issues, but he's following the normal medical prescribed game plan, and he's suffering because of it, hunched over in pain while he awaits treatment with his name somewhere on a surgeons waiting list   

Good luck with it

Kelly

No neck problems, but had lower back problems for many years. Sciatic nerve pain, left foot on fire after a half hour of riding, all that stuff. Started noodling around on the innanet looking for similar symptoms, found stuff that seemed to indicate that my sacrum was out of alignment with my pelvis. I had been treated by one of the best spine Drs in CT but he focused on disc problems and never considered sacroiliac joint issues. Did more searching and found stretches that would help bring things back into alignment. Can pretty much give myself a full chiropractic alignment in 15 minutes lying on the floor. At around the one year mark of doing of this regimen twice a day I felt some clunks in my lower back that I had never felt before. Started feeling better almost right away. Another year later I'm down to stretching once a day and am pain free. I was able to ride more miles this year than the previous five years put together. Just a few years ago I considered selling my bike. Am now rediscovering the sport.
I am very disappointed with the medical industry. Doctoring is no longer a profession, but a profit driven industry. Drs are like mechanics, most are good at fixing things but only the gifted are good at trouble shooting... YMMV.
Sorry about your brother, I hope he finds a good trouble shooter. Living from pain pill to pain pill really sucks... AMHIK.
Larry