Minimally invasive treatment of inguinal hernias Inguinal hernias can appear and occur at any age, but the peak occurs in early childhood, 80-90% in males, as in inguinal hernias; while straight inguinal hernias are mostly in the elderly. The mechanism of hernia formation The treatment of inguinal hernia is conservative and surgical. The former mainly includes drug therapy and hernia belt therapy. Drug therapy includes external Chinese medicine and local injection drugs, which can help to eliminate the causative factors causing increased abdominal pressure to a certain extent. In particular, local injections cost a lot of money and often result in unclear anatomy of the surgical site, making the operation difficult and giving half the result with twice the effort. Hernia belt therapy is used to stop the protrusion of the hernia contents, thus stopping the development of the hernia and relieving the symptoms of abdominal distention, abdominal pain and constipation caused by the hernia. The disadvantage is that it can only temporarily relieve the symptoms and play an auxiliary therapeutic role, but long-term application will increase the chance of local intestinal adhesions, thus forming a difficult-to-recover hernia. It is mainly used for pediatric patients or patients whose general condition is too poor to tolerate surgical treatment. Conservative treatment can only provide temporary relief of symptoms, and no medication or hernia belt can cure a hernia. Inguinal hernia is a physical defect of the abdominal wall, and surgery is the only effective treatment for inguinal hernia, and there are three types of hernia repair, tension-free hernia repair and laparoscopic hernia repair. Traditional hernia repair is more invasive, with an incision of about 6-8 cm in length, a hospital stay of about 7-10 days, and a recurrence rate of about 20% after surgery; full recovery time is about 3 months for an ordinary hernia and 6-12 months for an extra large hernia. Tension-free hernia repair and laparoscopic hernia repair. Tension-free hernia repair is the main treatment method of modern medicine for inguinal hernia. Although the surgery is invasive, it is now mostly done under local anesthesia, and the minimally invasive tension-free hernia repair method we perform only requires an incision of about 2.0 cm in length; the damage is very small, the recovery is fast, no catheterization and fasting are required, and even “one-day hernia treatment” can be achieved. It is possible to achieve “one-day hernia treatment”. Usually only 2-3 days of hospitalization are required. Due to the application of artificial patch, the recurrence rate after surgery is significantly reduced and is now less than 1%; the full recovery time after surgery takes about 2 weeks for common hernia and about 1 month for extra large hernia. Most of the repair materials are high-purity polypropylene materials, which are inert and should not react chemically with human tissues and have good histocompatibility, and have been used for more than 50 years. The laparoscopic hernia repair has 3 small incisions, about 1.0 cm, 0.5 cm, and 0.5 cm long, and the hernia repair is performed laparoscopically; it requires about 2-3 days of hospitalization; the postoperative recurrence rate is currently about 1%; the full recovery time is about 2 weeks for an ordinary hernia and about 1 month for an extra large hernia. The disadvantages are that surgical treatment must be performed under general anesthesia, the operation is more expensive, and the postoperative recovery time is not significantly different from that of tension-free hernia repair.