Lik Sprava. 1994 Mar-Apr; (3-4): 100-2.

[The rehabilitation of patients with acute pain in the lumbosacral region]

Kryzyna NP.

77 patients with acute pain in the lumbosacral area, exposed to adverse occupational factors prevalent in aircraft industry, were examined. Group I patients (control) received several types of curative therapy (medicamentous, physiotherapeutic, balneological). Group II patients (test) underwent, in addition to the treatments above, manual therapy to the vertebrogenic zone and "trigger points", injections of antireticular cytotoxic serum as recommended by A. A. Bogomolets. The degree of the pain syndrome was assessed by four grades. Grade I was diagnosed in 62 (80.51%) patients, grade II was present in 13 (10.68%), grade III in 2 (3.61%) patients. The fourth grade was not identified. Positive results were recorded in 64.86% and in 87.95% of patients in group I and group II respectively. The suggested multimodality treatment for controlling pains in the lumbosacral area is an effective, cost-saving method, easy to use.