The hazards of hot compresses for lumbar protrusion mainly include skin burns, easy to aggravate the symptoms in some cases, and so on. 1. Skin burns: patients with lumbar intervertebral disc herniation in the recovery period can be appropriate for local hot compresses, hot compresses can help activate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis, thus improving the patient’s symptoms. The harm mainly refers to the local skin burns caused by too long or too high temperature of the hot compress. 2. In some cases, hot compresses will aggravate the symptoms: when the lumbar disc herniation patient is in the acute stage, hot compresses may even aggravate the pain symptoms. In addition, if the lumbar protrusion patients combined with lumbar spondylolisthesis, hot compresses may lead to increased swelling, causing more serious nerve compression symptoms. It is recommended that patients with lumbar herniation apply hot compresses reasonably under the guidance of a medical professional to avoid the related side effects.