What other “rumors” about herniated discs have you heard! Not only flash your ears, but also flash your lumbar discs! If you have a herniated disc, you need to sleep on a hard bed! Sleep on the floor, it’s called “hard”. Patients come in and say, “I sleep on a hard bed, but my back hurts every day, and my herniated disc is not healed!” I don’t know where this idea came from, but it is true that many people think so, but it is wrong. We have a normal physiological curvature of the lumbar spine, lumbar disc herniation patients need a bed is a soft and hard, can maintain the physiological curvature of the lumbar spine in all angles of the bed, not a hard bed, hard bed can not match the normal curve of the human spine, the waist is not supported, which in turn will make the spine deformation is not conducive to recovery, and easy to sleep with back pain. When buying a mattress can try to lie more than 10 minutes, through the body to feel the judgment of softness. And then teach you a way to test the mattress hardness and softness, try to sleep on your back and side, use your hand to test the waist and knees behind the relevant curve part of the spare, if there is no spare, but the hand can also be relatively easy to reach in, that the hard and soft moderate. If there is no free space, it is hard. If there is no free space and it is hard to reach in, it is soft. Mild lumbar disc herniation does not require surgery and can be recovered through physical therapy, traction, and rest and recuperation. For serious patients, surgery is needed. The current surgical technique of lumbar disc is very mature, widely used clinically and effective. Because different doctors grasp the scale is different, so we can only list the textbook indications for surgery: 1, the history of more than six months, conservative treatment for more than 6 weeks is ineffective; 2, severe pain seriously affects the work life; 3, there is a serious loss of muscle strength, muscle atrophy, etc.; 4, conservative treatment is effective, but recurrent and heavy pain; 5, special types of herniation (intervertebral foramen area, the extradural foraminal protrusion).