Osteophytes? Is there anyway to remove them from the spine?

I don't have AS but I do have bone spurs at 5 levels of my cervical spine so know how painful it can be, I see a chiropractor and I swear by him, I also have a fussion in my lumbar and more problems in the thoracic area and without him I probably wouldn't be mobile

I am a retired pain management doc and anesthesiologist.  I also have a good set of my own osteophytes, bulging discs, degenerated discs, a flattened spinal cord and also limited motion all in my neck.  I see a pain management anesthesiologist who sent me for a surgical consult just because of the spinal cord flattening just a couple of weeks ago.  The surgeon told me that if he took out my bothersome osteophytes it would make my spine unstable and he'd have to fuse my spine, a big surgery.  He sent me back to my pain management doc to let him try all his conservative management tricks, nerve blocks, epidural steroid injections, medications, physical therapy, spinal cord stimulator, epidural drug delivery system.  I will do just about anything to not have a fusion surgery having given anesthesia for the procedure and seen how invasive it is and how easy it is for complications to occur.  I'd recommend you take my path because if they took all your osteophytes off they would most certainly be talking stabilizing your spine with rods and screws.  That would be a very big, very painful surgery and you'd need to make sure you have that done by a very reputable, experienced surgeon.