期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2013
卷号：20
期号：2
页码：203-205
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Vertebral column degeneration is among the most common disorders. It causes significant losses due to worsening qua lity of life and work absenteeism. Bec ause it also affects also pe ople at production age it generates considerable direct and indirect costs. For instance , according to Rutkow in the USA, the yearly cost of treatment of this disorder in the 1980s was $ 16 billion [1].Degeneration of the lumbar section of the vertebral column is correlated with morphological and radiologic al lesions; most commonly, radiculopathy caused by single or multi-level herniation or cauda equina syndrome resulting from spinal canal stenosis degeneration. Pain in the lumbar section of the vertebral column is a typical syndrome of this degeneration. Many authors have alre ady focused on this topic [2, 3, 4, 5].
