Low back pain is a common and prevalent clinical disease, as well as an international epidemic, and is the occupational disease with the highest incidence. Herniated discs cause huge social expenses and labor loss, and are of concern worldwide. However, there are still many people who have some misconceptions about this disease and thus take many detours in treatment. The following 5 misconceptions in particular need to be corrected: Myth 1: I’m so young, I won’t get lumbar disc herniation In the clinic, many young patients with back and leg pain, check out lumbar disc herniation, think that they are so young, lumbar disc herniation is the “patent” of the middle-aged and elderly, it must be a doctor’s misdiagnosis, they will not be lumbar disc The patient with lumbar disc herniation. This starts with the etiology of lumbar disc herniation. The causes of lumbar disc herniation are both internal and external. The internal cause is mainly degenerative changes in the lumbar spine; the external cause is trauma, strain or overwork, cold and moisture, etc. Because the lumbar spine is arranged in a physiological convexity, the intervertebral disc is thick in the front and thin in the back, when the patient in the lumbar injury, bruises, flash back, etc., the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc moves backward, and the intervertebral disc protrudes backward. The young people are more active and do not pay attention to protection, which often easily leads to disc protrusion. According to statistics, the incidence of herniated discs aged 20-40 accounts for 64.46%, and only 34.92% of those over 40 years old, with an average age of 38.8 years. Therefore, lumbar disc herniation is not the “patent” of the middle-aged and elderly. On the contrary, in clinical practice, some patients are nervous that they have a herniated disc when they have a CT or MR of the lumbar spine for various reasons and the radiology report says “lumbar disc herniation”. Generally speaking, after the age of 25 to 30, the human spinal discs and intervertebral joints can begin to degenerate and proliferate and other aging manifestations, in layman’s terms, just like people get wrinkles. Many people have herniated discs in the cervical or lumbar spine, but until they die, they do not have the corresponding symptoms of compression of the spinal nerve roots, and even if they have symptoms, most people do not start to show them until after they are 40 or 50 years old. Therefore, many people undergo CT film examination of the cervical or lumbar spine due to physical examination or simple neck, shoulder and back pain. Therefore, the patient should carefully consult the spine surgeon and listen to the spine surgeon’s interpretation of the radiologist’s report, rather than interpreting the words in the report, which would only lead to trouble. Myth #3: Lumbar disc herniation can be reset by massage and tui na massage and tui na can only relieve pain, not cure the root cause. And because many people who do massage and massage lack sufficient knowledge of lumbar disc herniation, they often aggravate the condition and even cause accidents. A common clinical situation is that many patients not only do not alleviate the symptoms but also aggravate them after receiving manual massage and reset treatment. Of course, many patients get relief after massage and massage, in fact, massage and massage only play a role in relieving muscle spasm, and the symptoms are often relieved by the process of the disease itself. So remind patients must be carefully selected, especially women, in breastfeeding and menstruation, due to hormone secretion, ligaments are more relaxed, especially prone to problems. Myth 4: Many patients believe that all lumbar disc herniation can be cured by surgery Surgery is only one of the treatments for lumbar disc herniation. The indications for surgery for lumbar disc herniation are very strict, and surgery is not the first choice for lumbar disc herniation treatment. In addition, surgery has strict indications and contraindications, and there is a possibility of recurrence after surgery. It should be noted that most patients with lumbar disc herniation can be relieved by non-surgical treatments, but some patients still require surgical treatment. Patients with severe disc herniation should be operated promptly when urinary and fecal dysfunction occurs. Also when partial muscle paralysis occurs, surgery is the way to help restore muscle function. Also, when various conservative treatments are ineffective, surgery can relieve nerve compression. Myth 5: I have a lumbar disc herniation surgery afraid to operate because lumbar spine surgery is easy to paralyze. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are suffering from lumbar disc herniation are very afraid that they will be paralyzed if they have this disease, so they are worried all day long and they are very afraid. Is lumbar spine surgery really that scary? The following aspects of the analysis can help you solve the mystery: 1, the nerve is not as thick as you think like a hair, the nerve of the lumbar spine is roughly equivalent to the general thickness of the infusion tube, the diameter is about 0.3- 0.5 cm. 2, perfect operating routine, meticulous precautions, the possibility of nerve damage in the lumbar spine is already very low, about 0.1-0.2%. 3.The nerve roots of the lower lumbar spine have a cross-distribution function, and even if a nerve is injured, other nerves can often replace its function without easily paralyzing it. 4.Experienced specialists, special and sophisticated surgical equipment, anatomical relationships known to medicine, and advanced examination and diagnosis techniques make the seemingly reasonable advice that “surgery is prone to paralysis” old hat. 5, the new treatment technology can be achieved under the monitoring of high-tech achievements in the use of mechanical, chemical or physical energy methods to remove the protruding disc tissue. This makes it less damaging and safer. Therefore, the simple fear that surgery may be paralyzing is clearly not much justified. On the contrary, delaying the condition due to a single-minded fear without regard to the specificity of the condition will not only paralyze, but the treatment will hardly have the desired effect. Such lessons are common in clinical work.