According to statistics, about 90% of people have low back pain, the length and severity of the pain varies, many patients will be very worried, and will even do their own traction, physical therapy, compresses and various ancestral medicine treatment in the “Chinese medicine” side. In fact, most of the time, the doctor will only let the patient go home to rest and exercise the back muscles. The results are also very good, and save money and convenience. I would like to tell you that most of the low back pain is nothing to worry about, rest well and proper and correct exercise will be fine. Only a small percentage of low back pain requires medical intervention. And how can you tell if your back pain is serious? Simply put, it depends on whether there are other symptoms such as foot pain, numbness, restricted lumbar movement, stiffness, etc. in addition to low back pain. If it is just low back pain, then congratulations, your case is probably not serious, just lumbar muscle strain, supraspinous ligamentitis, lumbar spine small arthritis, mild discitis and mild disc herniation, etc.. Most of these diseases are strains and degenerative changes. Such diseases do not rely on doctors to help solve the pain, but should rely on their own maintenance and exercise, in acute pain, to lie down on a hard bed rest, can be appropriate to use a variety of pain relief cream external or oral any kind of painkillers excessive. The chronic period or no pain, to actively and regularly exercise the lumbar back muscle, such as swimming, supine flexion knee lifting hip and prone back fly, etc., the conditions can be in the gym exercise, the least should also be appropriate running. In addition, we should change the bad habits of long-term sitting work. What if a lumbar disc herniation is diagnosed? Is it very scary? Should I have surgery? This time it depends on the degree of herniation, the severity and duration of the symptoms. Most of the lumbar disc herniation can be completely improved by lying on a hard bed and exercising the lumbar back muscles. How about traction and massage? Of course it will help, but doctors always believe that it is too tiring to run to the hospital and wait in line for traction massage when you have acute back pain, so it is better to just rest at home. Many times when a patient gets better after 10 days of traction therapy, they think it is the effect of traction therapy, but in fact it is more likely to be the result of 10 days of rest. After the pain has improved, you need to actively exercise the lumbar back muscles, in the same way as above. If the degree of lumbar disc herniation is more serious, then it can be solved by minimally invasive nucleus pulposus removal surgery, the surgery, do not delay until the nerve root necrosis and then do. Occasional mild lumbar pain in young patients is basically ignored. If back pain occurs gradually and persistently or repeatedly, this is not quite normal. You need to be alert to congenital lumbar isthmus cleft, and this is the time to go to the hospital for an examination to see the severity of the isthmus cleft, and very few patients need surgical fixation. What about the majority of patients with mild symptoms? Exercise the lumbar back muscles, of course. In young men, long-term chronic low back pain, especially pain at rest that gets better with activity, accompanied by stiffness in the lumbar or hip and knee joints, should be especially alert to ankylosing spondylitis. Relevant tests need to be performed at the hospital. If the disease is diagnosed, a regular course of drug therapy is required. In middle-aged and elderly patients with lumbar pain with intermittent claudication, that is, walking a short distance and then needing to rest for a few minutes, then being able to walk a short distance again, and then needing to rest again, this symptom needs to be considered lumbar spinal stenosis. Conservative treatment for this condition is not effective, and traction and physical therapy are basically ineffective. In many cases, spinal decompression surgery is required to enlarge the narrowed spinal canal and give the dura an adequate space. There are many different conditions that can cause low back pain, and the above are the more common ones. Low back pain is a common symptom, most of them do not need to find a doctor, as long as you pay attention to rest, change the bad life and work status, and actively exercise, low back pain will stay away from you.