Mr. Zhao, 73, has been suffering from a herniated lumbar disc and has been helplessly enduring increasingly severe back and leg pain for more than a decade. Due to his age and the fact that he also suffers from various medical chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, Mr. Zhao has had difficulty tolerating the trauma of surgery. But the worsening back and leg pain has gradually affected Mr. Zhao’s normal life, which has made the family more and more urgent to seek medical treatment, even to the point of seeking medical help in an emergency. In recent days, Mr. Zhao just underwent radiofrequency ablation of lumbar discs at the neurosurgery department, and his pain was relieved instantly on the same day, and he returned home happily after only 2 days of work, and the whole family was relieved. After cardiovascular disease and malignant tumor, lumbar pain is the third major disease affecting the normal life of middle-aged and elderly people. The most common cause of low back pain is lumbar disc herniation. Not only are the elderly susceptible to lumbar disc herniation during the aging process of the spine due to degenerative changes in the spine, but there are also a few young people who suffer from lumbar discs due to excessive exercise, heavy lifting, obesity and other reasons. Currently, the treatment of lumbar disc herniation mostly starts with conservative therapy, but these methods can only temporarily relieve the pain for a few days, and the pain often reappears after a few months. At this time, patients often end up choosing surgical treatment, and the traditional surgical method is difficult for elderly people like Mr. Zhao to accept. After more than 10 years of clinical treatment of more than 2,000 cases, lumbar disc radiofrequency ablation has brought good news to the majority of patients. The so-called lumbar intervertebral disc radiofrequency ablation “surgery” is different from the traditional surgery, and its trauma is so small that it can’t even be called “surgery”. The reason for this is the ingenious principle of lumbar disc radiofrequency ablation: the radiofrequency needle is punctured to a location close to the disc and ablated using a radiofrequency instrument, so that the protruding disc is heated and then retracted, thus moving away from the nerve root and achieving pain relief. The whole process only takes ten minutes, and the diameter of the radiofrequency needle is only 2 mm, and the general puncture depth is only 5-6 cm, which is much shorter than the incision of traditional surgery, so it is really minimally invasive. Therefore, even elderly people who are not in good health like Mr. Zhao can be treated by lumbar disc radiofrequency ablation. In addition to this minimally invasive feature, lumbar disc radiofrequency ablation can also be performed at different segments during a single hospitalization. Since many patients with herniated discs often have multiple segmental herniations. Sometimes the symptoms are not caused by one segment, but rather by a combination of herniated compression in two or more segments. Radiofrequency ablation of lumbar discs can duplicate this feature for such patients as well with minimal trauma to obtain the most complete results. Thus, the medical risks and costs of lumbar disc radiofrequency ablation are extremely low.