Seventy year olds with lumbar disc herniation can undergo surgical treatment if they have no underlying disease and are physically able to tolerate surgery.
Seventy-year-old man lumbar disc herniation if compression of the nerve and spinal cord by conservative treatment is ineffective can be surgical treatment, if it is simple disc herniation can be minimally invasive intervertebral foramenoscopy surgery to remove the protruding discs, this surgery is less traumatic, less bleeding, fast recovery, the next day after the operation can be in the lumbar girdle under the protection of the ground activities.
If the lumbar disc herniation is combined with lumbar spinal stenosis or lumbar spondylolisthesis, open surgery is needed, which is very traumatic and slow in recovery. Before the surgery, it is necessary to evaluate the condition of the patient to see if there is any underlying disease, such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, coronary artery disease, or pulmonary disease, and to assess whether he or she can tolerate the surgery. If you can tolerate surgery you can have surgery.
Therefore, seventy-year-olds with herniated lumbar discs need to be evaluated by a professional doctor to determine whether they can be treated surgically and whether to choose minimally invasive surgery or open surgery.