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Foraminoplasty is an aware state endoscopic technique developed by Martin Knight MD, FRCS, MBBS and team about many years ago. It can be used to address many pathologies in the raging spine and also failed back surgery. The aware state feedback helped the medical team to discover the true sources of back pain and has allowed to optimise the treatment at each level. The improved kit now allows to undertake multilevel combination foraminoplasty. The medical team of Dr. M. Knight has now many studies developed in years with results described in specialty literature. In the "Endoscopic Foraminoplasty: A Prospective Study on 250 Consecutive Patients with Independent Evaluation", the conclusion is shown as a minimalist means of exploring the extraforaminal zone, the foramen, the disc, and the epidural space and performing discectomy, lateral recess decompression, osteophytectomy, and neural mobilization with the endoscopic laser foraminoplasty utilised in the aware state. It provides identification and accurate localization of the causal source of pain in multilevel disc disease.