The type of anesthesia needed for lumbar spine surgery depends entirely on the patient’s physical condition and the specific type of surgery. If the surgery is purely for the removal of a lump such as a lipoma or acne, local infiltration anesthesia is sufficient. If it is because of lumbar spine fracture, need to be nailed rod internal fixation or lumbar spinal stenosis, need to do incision decompression and other surgery, take general anesthesia surgical mode. In addition, the elderly vertebral compression fracture or serious lumbar disc herniation, minimally invasive surgical treatment, most of the local anesthesia. Of course, the specific laboratory tests before surgery also have a certain impact on the anesthesia. Because the elderly are in poorer physical condition or have poorer pain tolerance, local infiltration anesthesia is less likely to be used.