The patient, Uncle Qin, aged over 60, was admitted to the hospital for surgery for more than half a year for low back pain, aggravated with pain in the right lower limb for more than 3 months. The patient’s right lower limb pain gradually worsened, and 1 week before hospitalization, he was unable to get out of bed and walk, and the pain was obvious even when he was lying in bed, and he was often unable to sleep due to the pain, or woke up in pain during sleep, and basically did not sleep for more than 1 week in the recent past, and although he was sleepy, he was never able to sleep solidly, and due to the difficulty in sleeping and eating, he also had significant weight loss recently. Uncle Qin visited other hospitals and took a CT of the lumbar spine, suggesting lumbar disc herniation, and suggested conservative treatment with medicine, but it did not work at all, and the pain was not only not relieved but also gradually increased. So Uncle Qin came to me for help with a sense of urgency. I thought that Uncle Qin’s lumbar disc herniation was very serious, conservative treatment was ineffective, and the severe pain seriously affected the quality of life, so he should receive minimally invasive intervertebral foraminoscopic surgery in time to quickly relieve the pain, otherwise the heartbreaking pain would keep tormenting Uncle Qin. After I explained the necessity and efficacy of the surgery, Uncle Qin saw hope and immediately decided to undergo minimally invasive intervertebral foraminoscopic surgery. So I arranged for Uncle Qin to be hospitalized for screening on the same day, and on the next day, he was hospitalized to perfect the routine examination and undergo an MRI of the lumbar spine. The MRI showed a huge lumbar disc nucleus pulposus prolapsed with free, which was much more serious than the results shown by the patient’s lumbar spine CT done outside the hospital, and it was not only impossible to relieve the symptoms without surgery, but also likely to cause serious consequences such as nerve damage and lower limb paralysis. Fortunately, Uncle Qin made the right choice in time and was hospitalized in time for surgery, avoiding the above possible serious consequences. The following day, after the preoperative preparations were completed, I personally performed a minimally invasive intervertebral foraminoscopic surgery under local anesthesia on Uncle Qin. The patient was awake the whole time, and I kept talking to him during the surgery to calm his nervousness, and the patient was able to cooperate closely with me. The surgery went smoothly, and all aspects were smooth. As I continued to remove the nucleus pulposus from the disc, the pressure on the nerve roots continued to decrease, and Uncle Qin’s pain became less and less, and his lower limbs became more and more relaxed. The operation lasted for about 1 hour, bleeding about 5ml, wound about 0.8cm, and 1 stitch. After the operation, Uncle Qin felt that his waist and right leg were very light, the original pain symptoms were completely gone, and the original “bad leg” became a good leg that moved freely. When I went to the ward to check on the patient, Uncle Qin was already snoring loudly and sleeping peacefully. After being tortured by the disease for so long without a solid sleep, it was really time to catch up on sleep!