If the patient has had lumbar disc surgery for 10 years. This type of surgery still has an impact on the patient. The specific effects are not caused by the surgery itself, but by the underlying cause of the lumbar disc herniation. Common effects include accelerated degeneration of the lumbar spine, decreased mobility of the lumbar spine, lumbar deformities, and more. The specific effects are as follows: 1. Accelerated degeneration of lumbar vertebrae: After the relevant surgical treatment of the patient, although the patient’s symptoms can be significantly relieved, the function of the diseased lumbar intervertebral discs has been lost in large quantities. Thereafter, the patient will be subjected to more obvious vibration at the lumbar vertebrae, and there is instability. This causes the lumbar spine to degenerate at a faster rate. The patient may develop osteophytes, calcified ligaments, and other degenerative lesions. Sometimes patients may even experience recurrence of lumbar disc herniation. 2. Decrease in lumbar spine mobility: some patients implanted lumbar spine internal fixation devices, which will lead to a significant decrease in lumbar spine mobility. For example, the patient’s bending amplitude will decrease to a certain extent. 3. Lumbar deformity: As the patients may have obvious lumbar degeneration after 10 years, the patients may have abnormal bony protrusions in the lumbar region, or there may be lumbar scoliosis and other appearance changes. Of course, patients do not need to be overly alarmed. The above situations are just some of the possible consequences. It is recommended that the patient return to the orthopedic department for regular follow-ups in order to determine whether there are any further lesions of the lumbar spine.