Lumbar disc herniation is a common disease. For most patients, it can be cured by conservative treatments such as medication, traction, and physical therapy, and only a few patients need to undergo surgery in order to achieve the goal of cure. So which patients need surgery? The following situations need to consider surgery: 1, the symptoms are more serious, affecting the life and work, after drugs, traction, physical therapy treatment for more than 3 months is ineffective; 2, the emergence of severe lumbar and leg pain, CT or MRI there is a clear disc protrusion. 3.Muscle paralysis, numbness of limbs and dysfunction of urination and defecation should be operated as early as possible. 4.Combined with lumbar isthmus nonunion, spondylolisthesis and lumbar spinal stenosis.