Abstract:Objective: To investigate the factors affecting the poor curative effect of TESSYS technique in the treatment of elderly lumbar disc herniation. Methods: 431 elderly patients with lumbar disc herniation were enrolled in the study, all of whom were treated with percutaneous foraminoscopic TESSYS technique for lumbar disc herniation and nerve root release decompression. The modified MacNab evaluation criteria were used to evaluate the surgical effect 12 months after surgery. According to the operation results, the patients were divided into good group and poor group. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the reasons that might affect the surgical effect. Results: Up to the end of 12 months after surgery, 175 cases were excellent, 132 cases were good, 85 cases were acceptable, 39 cases were poor, the excellent and good rate was 71.23%, and the overall clinical effective rate was 90.95%. Compared with the preoperative results, the lower back pain VAS score, lower limb pain VAS score, ODI score, JOA score and GAD-7 score were significantly improved at 3 days and 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after surgery (P < 0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that body mass index, degree of intervertebral disc degeneration, endlaminitis, adjacent segment herniation and mental factors were independent risk factors for poor curative effect of percutaneous foraminal TESSYS technique in the treatment of elderly lumbar disc herniation (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Body mass index, herniated disc calcified, endlaminitis, protrusion of adjacent segments and mental factors are independent risk factors affecting the efficacy of percutaneous foraminal TESSYS technique in the treatment of elderly lumbar disc herniation.