Patient question: disease: lumbar disc 45 right after a year of protrusion, want to consult whether minimally invasive treatment Description:October 2014 lumbar disc protrusion, after acupuncture and massage treatment for 3 months to recover, New Year’s Day 2015 cold relapse so far, during the massage acupuncture Chinese medicine, etc. have been treated, has been manifested as calf pain, hip distension, a small needle knife after toe numbness Hope to provide help:So far walking I can walk about 2 km, but my calf muscles have atrophied, so I wonder if I can continue conservative treatment. I am not sure if my condition can be treated with intervention, but the 45 protrusion is not large (less than 5mm, but pressed in the nerve root of the saphenous fossa, I have eaten Ying Taiqing, intermittently eaten Hello; 1. A, you have been onset for more than 4 months, it seems that conservative treatment has been done, acupuncture, Chinese medicine 。。。。。。 Do you think there is a need to continue to do it. 2, whether my disease can be interventional treatment, to 45 protrusion is not large (less than 5mm, but pressure in the saphenous fossa nerve root A, I do not know what kind of interventional treatment you want to do, because there are many methods of interventional treatment. The size of the herniated disc on imaging does not determine the severity of back and leg pain, that is, not the larger the herniation, the more severe the clinical pain symptoms, but a bulging disc, without compression, can produce severe back and leg pain as well.