Help with spike pruning

[Stefus_Prime]

Hello everyone, I have a phalaenopsis that has pretty big spikes (two 24-26'' ones an two more that are close to a foot), the problem is that these spikes all have "branches" on them from old blooms. These branches are contorted all over the place and it leads a lot to be desired aesthetically and it makes any transport a pain. So my question is, how do I go about pruning these branches without losing the spikes? My other Phal had spikes that were a similar length and they both fell off after some time, this is something I'd like to avoid for a while if possible.

I tried to include a pic but the forum says it was denied ( I used tinypic) so if there's some way for me to post the pic that I'm unaware of I would gladly do that