The morbidity of degenerative scoliosis increased year after year,it is a major cause of low back and leg pain in the elderly.There are many causes of the disease,but it is mainly related to the degeneration of the spine.In order to further standardize the clinical treatment program,the scholars have carried out the classification of the disease,but there is no one type can be a good distinction between different types of patients and can improve the surgical methods.Surgical treatment of the disease gradually get attention,operation of the main purpose is to eliminate or alleviate the symptoms,deformity correction and maximum reconstruction of spinal sagittal and coronal plane stability,the main surgical procedures are simple vertebral canal decompression,spinal canal decompression and posterior approach fixation and fusion,spinal canal decompression and the combined anterior and posterior approach fixation fusion.For the selection of fusion segments,there is still controversy,analysis shows that individual treatment is particularly important.