The advantages and disadvantages of intervertebral foraminoscopy are as follows: 1. Advantages, intervertebral foraminoscopy is minimally invasive surgery, small incision, light trauma, less pain, fast recovery, which is actually the advantage, the most basic advantage that the people know; its real advantage is to protect the function of the muscle, like the large open incision is to strip all the muscles and then sew back, the function of the muscle has changed, and can not achieve the effect before surgery, and even some In addition, when the disc is cut, because the disc is inside the spinal canal, the bony structure of the vertebral plate is cut, and after the cut is unstable, it has to be fixed, and once the vertebral body is fixed, the intervertebral motion function is lost, resulting in stiffness of the spine, thus accelerating the degeneration of the adjacent segments, so after 3-5 years or even longer time, the adjacent segment degeneration needs to be operated again; for elderly patients, elderly patients may not be able to tolerate this surgery, even if it is painful, they can only wait and watch, because conservative treatment is also ineffective, so the intervertebral foramen is more advantageous, in addition to the basic advantages of small incision, light trauma, less pain, and fast recovery, but more mainly to protect the function of the spine, and the effect is better for young patients, if early Give the patient a fixed, 3-5 years later, up to 10 years to do 1 lumbar spine surgery, that the patient’s pain is disastrous, so relative to those basic advantages ahead, the protection of spinal function is the biggest advantage; 2, disadvantages, endoscopic surgery is more dependent on the instrumentation, more skillful, so its learning curve is longer, mastering this technology is more difficult, which is why many doctors can not carry out This is the reason why many doctors cannot carry out this technique, which is the technical disadvantage of foraminoscopy, that is, it is difficult to master; in addition, for the unstable spine, the results are not very good after simply doing endoscopic surgery. Despite the great advantages and few disadvantages of intervertebral foraminoscopy, it is very wise for patients to go to the hospital for an examination, seek a diagnosis by a specialist in minimally invasive spine surgery, and make a choice of treatment in order to achieve good results.