A person is like a car that has to be properly maintained – how to understand the occurrence, development, recurrence and postoperative recurrence of lumbar disc herniation? Lumbar disc herniation is a degenerative disease of the lumbar intervertebral disc due to various causes. In such a natural process of human occurrence, development, maturation, aging and death, degeneration is an all too natural process. The degenerative process itself can be asymptomatic, but if the degenerative disc is displaced or inflammatory, and the nerves are compressed or irritated, the body will experience the unpleasant sensation of pain. Out of human instinct, in order to eliminate the annoyance caused by pain, people seek medical help in different ways and use different treatments to achieve pain relief, relieve pain and enhance their quality of life in society or in the family. Degenerative changes in humans are a long life process. During this process, patients develop symptoms to different degrees, depending on their physical condition. In the vast majority of patients, with rest and conservative treatment, clinical symptoms may resolve or remit over time. Some patients may experience recurrence of symptoms and prolongation, but there is no need to panic about this, as these are normal manifestations of degenerative diseases. There is an essential difference between lumbar disc herniation and tumor, it is not a fatal disease, it is a chronic disease, and the recurrence of symptoms is a normal process of degenerative disease. For those patients whose lumbar disc herniation does not work through conservative treatment, they need to be treated through surgery. People are like a car, in the effective use of the period, there are always small and large problems of one kind or another, which need to be repaired in time, otherwise, it will lead to bigger problems. However, after the repair of the car in any case is not comparable to the original car, it is more or less to have repaired traces, to it is unrealistic to be perfect. Doctors are similar to car mechanics in that they can maintain and repair damaged organs in the human body, but they cannot change the nature of the finite nature of the body’s life cycle. The same is true for the human organ, the intervertebral disc. A doctor can refurbish it and try to make it stop irritating and compressing the nerves, but cannot make the disc a functioning disc. After a car is repaired, if it continues to be used, the car cannot be fixed once and for all, and any failure can still occur. The same is true for the disc. After treatment by a doctor, the person immediately has to return to normal life and work, so it is not unusual for symptoms and conditions requiring treatment to occur again. Minimally invasive theory adheres to: the treatment concept of step therapy, the operation concept of being able to be small and not too big, which lays a very good foundation for the treatment again. With the creation and application of new technologies, many severe disc herniations can be treated with minimally invasive endoscopy. Even if traditional internal fixation is treated and symptoms reappear after treatment, many can be remedied by applying endoscopic methods. Malignant diseases such as tumors, such as lung cancer, stomach cancer and liver cancer, once recurred and metastasized, are equivalent to declaring an end-of-life period. The nature of post-operative recurrence of lumbar disc herniation is different from that of tumor recurrence. It does not metastasize and is not fatal; at most, it is just pain and functional limitation of varying degrees.