When a spine surgeon mentions surgery, the first thing patients often say is: they won’t be paralyzed. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, with the improvement of the medical level, the original thought that a very large operation is now a routine operation, the operation time is only about 1 hour. For lumbar disc herniation surgery such as this is also equivalent to the spine of the “appendicitis”. You can’t say that there is no risk, and it’s a lie to say that there is no risk. But this surgery is really safer, with the progress of medical technology and concepts, now most of the spine surgery can be 2, 3 days after surgery down, to solve the basic problems of life. In the past, patients did not eat after surgery and were afraid of urinating and defecating because they had to stay in bed for a long time. Due to the understanding of the disease and the improvement of surgical techniques, the protection of the spinal cord and cauda equina during surgery, and the management of the perioperative period, there is generally no exacerbation of symptoms, and the possibility of paralysis is very small. It is also said that the surgery of lumbar disc herniation, not to mention minimally invasive surgery, even the so-called traditional open surgery, the surgical incision is only about 4 centimeters, the surgery for the ligament and the joint protuberance of the damage is very small, and the postoperative recovery is very fast, and if it is the intradermal suture, the line does not need to be removed, and it will not leave an obvious scar. In short, spine surgery is safer, less invasive, and has less and less impact on the patient. However, we should not blindly expand the indications for surgery because of the safety of surgery; do what you should do and don’t do what you shouldn’t do.