[Prospects and modern possibilities of non-surgical treatment of intervertebral hernias with neurological manifestations. (Literature review)].

Abstract

The problem of non-specific pain in the spinal area is important today in society due to a number of reasons, including features of the modern human's lifestyle, tendency to increase in life expectancy and «aging» of population. There is a continuing debate about the sources of this pain and reasonableness of search for them. There is no doubt that discogenic pain prevails over other probable sources of pain in the spinal area and intervertebral hernias play the primary role here. Patients can immediately look for a solution to the problem by a neurosurgeon at the time of «intervertebral disc herniation» diagnosis establishment and in the presence of a pronounced reflex or radicular pain syndrome. It is the «intervertebral disc herniation» wording which often leads patients to a neurosurgeon. There are many methods of intervertebral hernias conservative treatment. This article is focused on the technology of spinal traction therapy, which has a scientific evidence base, including in the question of natural reduction of intervertebral hernias' dimensions. Cyclic local traction therapy is the latest and realizing all important principles of tractive impact on the spine method.