Myth: Believe in the “secret recipe” What conservative treatment should be chosen for patients who do not yet meet the indications for surgery? The conservative treatment for lumbar synostosis mainly includes bed rest; physiotherapy with hot compresses; Chinese medicine; pelvic traction; appropriate physical therapy; the use of western drugs to reduce swelling, relieve pain and nerve nutrition, and epidural hormone injections. The most common misconception about conservative treatment is to blindly listen to some irregular so-called special therapy or ancestral secret recipes, especially some elderly patients are prone to gullible commercial advertising, following the flyers or TV ads to buy drugs to eat, figure cheap, figure convenient. In fact, those so-called “ancestral recipes”, although they may improve some of the symptoms in the short term or temporarily play a role in relieving pain, but most of the symptoms are not the root cause, and it is difficult for patients with heavy symptoms to work. In addition, some secret formulas will add hormones, long-term use may cause osteoporosis, and even femoral necrosis, but harmful. Compared to all the high priced secret formulas, most of the regular conservative treatments for lumbar synostosis are actually very cheap. Therefore, there is really no need to spend all those wasted money. I especially remind the majority of patients that they should be careful with all kinds of massage in the market, as a bad push may cause incontinence or even paralysis in patients with lumbar synostosis.