Treatment of patients with the spine osteochondrosis using paracentetic laser thermodiscoplasty and by conservative method

The pains associated with the spine diseases are among the main problems of people in modern society. Most often the pain syndrome is caused by degenerative changes in intervertebral discs. Conservative therapy is the basis of the treatment. However, a conservative method of treatment does not always produce the desired effect. The work was based on the analysis of observation of 170 patients who were divided into two groups. The patients of the first group were treated by complex conservative therapy, while those of the second group underwent laser thermodiscoplasty of intervertebral discs. The data obtained demonstrate that the use of the proposed variant of surgical treatment in patients with lumbosacral osteochondrosis was more effective than traditional treatment, that was confirmed by 93 % decrease of relative risk and 70.45 % increase of relative benefit. The immediate and long-term results of treatment in patients with lumbosacral osteochondrosis by the surgical method of laser thermodiscoplasty evidence considerable effectiveness.