Yesterday, a mother and daughter came to the clinic. The mother is a long-time patient of mine, who came to me a few years ago for lumbar stenosis and had good results from my tui-na treatment, and recently had a recurrence. She came back yesterday because there were too many patients in the clinic last Friday and she didn’t wait, but the daughter raised a serious question: “Other specialists say that lumbar spinal stenosis cannot be treated with tui-na!” I asked her with some confusion, “Who said that? Does he know how Tui Na treats diseases? How many cases of lumbar spinal stenosis has he examined that have gone wrong?” I really don’t understand that some so-called experts are misleading patients by saying things that are taken for granted and have no basis in fact, which to be clear is nonsense! About seven or eight years ago, a specialist in spine surgery who had a herniated disc came to my clinic and wanted to do traction, without telling me anything about his condition, just to try traction. So I had to give him the smallest dose to experience the feeling of traction. Finally he got up and said with certainty, “Tui na and traction cannot cure lumbar disc herniation at all!” He was much older than me and was a senior, so I asked him why, and he said, “I’ve done both tui-na and traction, and they didn’t work! I asked who gave you tui-na, and he said it was an old colleague from the pharmacy, who was an athlete and had learned tui-na 30 years ago! This is how a person who is not even a second-rate tui-na practitioner can label “tui-na” as “ineffective” after he has done it! That’s how this so-called “Western spine expert” justifies his arguments! When he came to the clinic, he asked to experience traction and refused to tell me his condition, so I had to choose the smallest dose of traction for him to experience, and I never thought I would come to such a conclusion! A few years ago, a patient came to me and said that a surgical specialist had told him that lumbar synostosis should not be tractored. Out of professional pride and pragmatism, I approached this expert and asked him how he came to the conclusion that lumbar dystrophy could not be pushed, and asked him to produce evidence! He said sarcastically, “I said it casually,” and I said, “You are an expert, you said it casually and the patient can take it seriously, better talk properly!” For the treatment of lumbar disc herniation, whether from the patient’s own humanistic perspective or the perspective of the disease, should comply with the conservative treatment – minimally invasive treatment – surgical treatment steps to choose, in the case of conservative treatment is ineffective and then choose minimally invasive therapy, after all, conservative treatment less pain, low cost, small risk, most patients after conservative treatment can be completely clinical cure, after all, we choose the principle of After all, the principle of our choice is “take the heavier of the two benefits, take the lighter of the two harms”, the role of any therapy has both benefits and harms!