Objective To study the clinical effect of early rehabilitation nursing intervention in the patients who underwent lum-bar intervertebral disc operation .Methods 80 patients with lumbar disc herniation were selected and divided them into observation group and control group randomly ,each group contains 40 patients .The control group received conventional nursing while the ob-servation group underwent early rehabilitation nursing intervention after operation .Comparison was made in respects of pain ,func-tion rebuild and clinical effect after operation between two groups .Results There was no significant difference in the preoperative Japanese Orthopaedic Association(JOA) score between two groups .The differences in postoperative JOA scores were significant from 2 weeks after operation to 1 year .The observation group has better clinical effect than that of control group .And the percent-age of back pain or leg pain ,the positive rate of straight leg raising in observation group was less than the control group in 12 months after operation .Conclusion The early rehabilitation nursing intervention can help lumbar disc operation patients recover faster ,maintain the clinical effect and prevent the postoperative complications .