Patients with lumbar disc herniation do experience hip soreness and swelling, and it is very common, mainly because a part of the lumbar spinal nerve and the sacral spinal nerve together form the sciatic nerve, which then passes deep from the hip and reaches down to the leg. The sensations in the buttocks and legs are inevitably affected by both the lumbar and sacral nerves. A lumbar disc herniation is a phenomenon in which the intervertebral disc protrudes beyond the vertebral body, resulting in compression of the tissue structures around the lumbar spine, including the lumbar spinal nerve and cauda equina nerve. The symptoms are soreness, swelling, discomfort and even pain. Once a patient with a herniated lumbar disc has symptoms of hip soreness and swelling, he or she must rest in time and undergo traction therapy and acupuncture and massage treatment.