Degenerative diseases of the spine are the most common spinal pathologies, which are characterized by herniated discs, osteophytes, thickened ligaments, and spinal stenosis that compress the spinal cord and nerve roots, resulting in neurological symptoms. Due to differences in specialty knowledge and training, orthopedic surgeons focus more on the bone and connecting tissues, while neurosurgeons focus more on the spinal cord and nerves, which in turn determines that neurosurgeons use microsurgery more often in the surgical treatment of degenerative spinal diseases. To date, microsurgery remains the standard surgical procedure for the treatment of all spinal degenerative diseases. In a very classic atlas of spinal surgery, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis and thoracic disc herniation and other spinal degenerative diseases are divided into a separate chapter and categorized as neurosurgical procedures J. Therefore, neurosurgeons undertake most of the surgery for spinal degenerative diseases in foreign countries.