Patient: Description of condition (onset, main symptoms, hospital visited, etc.): Hello doctor: My mother is 60 years old and used to be in good health. Now she also has pain in her back and legs. X-rays showed mild osteophytes in both heels. A CT was taken and diagnosed as lumbar spine and small joint osteophytes. What is this disease and how did it start? Can you give me any treatment advice? Patient: X-ray showed mild osteophytes in both heels. CT was taken and diagnosed as lumbar spine and small joint osteophytes. Doctor: Have you ever treated it? If you don’t have diabetes, you can try local closure, if not, you can perform minimally invasive surgery, which is very effective. Patient: Thank you for your answer, my mother has used herbal medicine to soak it, but it is not very effective. What kind of treatment is minimally invasive surgery? Do I have to be hospitalized? Doctor: With special surgical instruments, a 1 cm incision can be made. The operation takes 20 minutes and you can go down afterwards. It takes 2 days of hospitalization.