After many years of practical experience, and with reference to the types of surgery performed by several famous foreign nystagmus specialists, we have summarized a total of nine types of nystagmus surgery, which are proposed for discussion by fellow ophthalmologists and for the parents’ reference: 1. surgery without compensatory head position; 2. surgery for nystagmus with tilted head position; 3. surgery for head position with low head position; 4. surgery with horizontal surgical treatment for head position; 5. surgical treatment for rotational head position; 6. surgical treatment for nystagmus with combined strabismus; 7. surgical treatment for nystagmus with combined head position and strabismus; 8. surgical treatment for those with pooling block; 9. surgical treatment for those with compound head position.