Minimally invasive methods of treatment of discogenic pain and facet syndrome in lumbar spine: literature review and own clinical results

Pain in the lumbar spine is the most common among people of working age. All open surgery, including endoscopic, to eliminate a disc-radicle conflict, associated with a large number of complications. This increasingly encourages doctors to use conservative and minimally invasive techniques. This article presents modern methods of treatment of facet syndrome: chemical denervation, radiofrequency ablation, intraarticular injection of drugs into the cavity in the intervertebral joints. Further research work revealed modern methods of treatment of elimination of a disc-radicle conflict: chemical denervation of the disc, chemonucleolysis, mechanical decompression, intradiscal used electrothermal therapy, laser nucleotomy, hydrodiscectomy, nucleoplasty, laser disc reconstruction. The pathogenetic substantiation of the above methods is considered, the positive and negative sides of each of them are revealed. Presented their own clinical results the Results showed a 70-80% efficiency in the next observation period without serious complications.