According to the latest sample survey of the Chinese Orthopedic Disease Control Committee, 71% of people between the ages of 50 and 60 suffer from leg pain; for people over 60, the proportion is as high as 82%. Lumbar disc herniation is the culprit. When you get older, it’s not easy to move around, and if you have a herniated disc, it can be a serious constraint on your activities. What makes the elderly susceptible to lumbar disc herniation? What should older people do if they suffer from this disease? The elderly – the “potential” of lumbar spine disease Lumbar disc herniation is a multifaceted and common disease. The main cause is a series of symptoms caused by strain degeneration of the intervertebral disc, rupture of the annulus fibrosus or prolapse of the nucleus pulposus, which stimulates or compresses the spinal nerve and spinal cord. Due to ageing and physiological degenerative changes in the spine, the elderly are more likely to suffer from lumbar disc herniation. However, many elderly people often mistakenly believe that back pain is due to old age, it’s no big deal and will pass if they endure it. A 60-year-old woman has been having back pain, slightly dry chores, the waist will hurt, sometimes after washing clothes, scrubbing the floor, and even too painful to stand up. The woman always thought that it was normal for people to have this pain and that pain as they got older. Later, when her back pain became more and more severe, her son rushed to take her to the hospital for a checkup, and the diagnosis was a mild lumbar disc herniation. The elderly in the family with back pain symptoms should immediately go to a regular hospital for professional treatment. If left untreated, not only will the elderly suffer from great physical pain and mental anguish, but they may also delay the treatment of other rare and serious diseases, such as tumors and inflammation, which cause low back pain. Choose minimally invasive surgery – easy treatment of lumbar spine disease Along with the continuous progress in the level of treatment of spinal diseases, minimally invasive surgery, as the development trend of surgery, has become an important treatment method for the elderly in treating lumbar disc disease. Compared with traditional surgery, minimally invasive surgery not only effectively solves patients’ preoperative concerns and worries about postoperative rehabilitation, but also has the advantages of small incision, less bleeding, less pain, faster postoperative functional recovery and low infection rate. For elderly patients with lumbar spine diseases, it is a safe and effective treatment option with light trauma and fast recovery. How should the elderly prevent lumbar and cervical spine diseases? Professor Fan said that many elderly people now attach great importance to health care, but sometimes the method of exercise is not very scientific. For patients with lumbar spine diseases, sports such as long-distance walking, jogging, badminton and dancing are not very suitable, while swimming and crawling are more appropriate. Swimming is the best, and crawling can be done anytime and anywhere.