First of all, to cheer you up: no matter how serious the lumbar protrusion is, there is nothing to be afraid of. To put it bluntly, it’s not a tumor. At most, the treatment process is long, the treatment effect is poor, the recovery time is long, and the recurrence time is short. The day of recovery will always come for lumbar herniation, so if we think about it, are we more optimistic about dealing with this persistent disease? For many lumbar disc herniation, conservative treatment can achieve good results, so conservative treatment is the treatment method that should be preferred by all sudden friends. Secondly, for patients with severe disc herniation whose conservative treatment is not ideal, foraminoscopic nucleus pulposus removal should be a very good choice, with little damage, fast recovery and much cheaper cost compared to fusion internal fixation (what is foraminoscopy you can check before and after articles of Taizhou Spine or online Baidu). All people are afraid of surgery, even injections, and so am I. But when all kinds of conservative treatments fail to relieve your pain and you have been tormented beyond endurance, long pain is better than short pain. 90% or more of severe pain can be completely solved by a small hole of less than 1cm via foraminoscopy. There is no need to endure the pain for a long time. There are serious patients who have been conservative for six months or even longer and have spent nearly tens of thousands of dollars. In fact, looking back the imaging is so severe that it is simply not suitable for conservative treatment. The end result is that money is spent and time is spent, and in the end minimally invasive or open surgical treatment is required. Some people are concerned about recurrence of herniated discs. The probability of recurrence after foraminoplasty is 3-5%, which is already very low, and even if you are unfortunate enough to have a recurrence you can still have the herniated nucleus pulposus removed by foraminoplasty again. Finally, this procedure is chosen only for patients with significant lumbar instability, or for patients who have other reasons that necessitate fusion internal fixation, which is a relatively low percentage of patients with lumbar disc herniation. And there are many problems to face with fusion internal fixation. Some people worry about recurrence and go straight to fusion internal fixation, which is actually a great pity. The two most common misconceptions about lumbar herniation: one, refusing invasive treatment two, requiring complete treatment For herniated discs I recommend never opening surgery if you can, but if the pain without surgery is very obvious and the quality of life is poor, minimally invasive therapy is preferred. Any disease from the big say is the stage of treatment, no one can live forever! A herniated disc is an inevitable process of aging and degeneration in the human body, and simple nucleus pulposus removal can relieve pain for decades in 95% of patients (a lot of practice at home and abroad has proven this, no doubt about it!) But are you saying that this is a complete cure? If you must be obsessed with the 3-5%, then don’t even walk down the street? Because if you stay in the hospital emergency department, every day you will encounter patients who are hit by cars on the road or fall down and sent to the hospital. It is a common sense that benefits and risks coexist. Conservative treatment has low risk, low efficacy and high recurrence rate. Open surgery has high risk and high efficacy, as well as low recurrence rates. Interventional and minimally invasive approaches fall somewhere in between. No matter what kind of treatment you choose, you should be prepared for the possible complications in addition to the results you expect from the treatment! Another point is not to believe the propaganda of individual treatment methods for lumbar synostosis, such as how someone is serious and cured after a what-if method, which is not scientific. As I said before, conservative treatment can cure many herniated discs, and as long as the course of treatment is long enough, most lumbar herniations that are not serious can achieve good results, just like a cold, no matter what method is used, as long as you can insist on 1 month, most of them will get better on their own (excluding serious colds, of course).