First of all, it should be clear that ankylosing spondylitis is a medical condition that should be looked at under rheumatology. A common feature of rheumatology is that the cause of the disease is unknown and it persists throughout life. The cause is unknown, but the good news is that it is a self-healing disease. The process of self-healing is painful, and it is not what you think, that after self-healing, you will be able to return to a normal person, but means: whether or not treatment, from the onset of the disease, after about 20 years, the disease is no longer in the active phase, stationary, stationary results in the spine completely into a stick-like, no longer will appear intervertebral activity, and osteoporosis, brittle, easy to break. Then you may ask: What’s the point of treatment? Treatment is useless is a very wrong concept! Treatment is useless is a very wrong concept! Treatment is useless is a very wrong concept! And it must be treated! Must be treated! Must be treated! The significance of treatment is as follows: through various medications, one can reduce the patient’s inflammation and pain, and the other can keep the patient in a good physical condition. Both of these are very important. A patient who adheres to treatment can eventually obtain a spine that is straighter than normal posture, and he can take care of himself and perform light work (the body’s ability to adapt is far greater than you can imagine), greatly reducing the burden on the family and society. A patient who is not treated or does not adhere to the regular treatment, there is a great possibility of progressing to spinal deformity, mainly hunchback, unable to look straight ahead, need to come to our orthopedic department to do orthopedic surgery to break the bones to straighten the hunchback, the surgery is very large, expensive, why bother? If I knew that, why didn’t I insist on taking medication in the first place? In a word, the biggest purpose of medication is not to let the internist refer you to us for surgery to straighten the hump! What kind of medication to use? Common and cheap medications are oral medications, which will be prescribed to you according to your symptoms in the rheumatology department of the hospital, without going into details. Injections of drugs, biological agents, more expensive, but the effect is simply superb, many patients can not believe after using such a “dramatic” effect, a person was helped in, a few weeks after walking as normal. The disadvantage is expensive, not generally expensive. Domestic and imported are expensive (to avoid advertising, do not say the name of the drug). It is said that foreign countries have been using it for more than a decade, and patients who insist on using it do not even have a straightened spine and basically maintain a normal life. It is said that Europe and the United States is in accordance with the special disease to treat, directly on such an expensive biological agents, domestic can only be huh, better have a rich father. One of my patients played a month, the effect of praise, but the wallet can not stand it, only to give up. The problem of Chinese medicine, I remain neutral, because do not understand. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for a long time, and they’ve been in the business for a long time. The symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis are not only in the spine, but also in the Achilles tendon and the eyes, which can be affected by the symptoms. If the patient is a girl, this is more tragic, the majority of male patients with ankylosing spine, I have seen the onset of girls, are very serious, rapidly progressing to deformity, I think, if the economic conditions are still possible, early use of biological agents, may be able to save to stop the development of her condition, but also apply for assistance from the Chinese Primary Health Care Foundation, buy a few free a few, to reduce their financial burden.