• Main page
• About the journal
• Editorial board
• Subscription
• Information for contributors
• Editorial and Peer Review
• Issues archive
• Authors
• Articles
  • By alphabet
  • By category
• Blogs and comments

The journal is included into The list of leading scientific periodicals.

The journal is included into VINITI database and is registered in Electronic scientific library.

The journal is indexed by SCOPUS, Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory.

EBSCO

https://doi.org/10.14300/mnnc.2016.11142

Low back pain syndrome: epidemiology and clinical manifestations

[Abstracts]
Irina Vishlova; Sergei Karpov; Anatoly Starodubtsev;

Prevalence of the main types of vertebral pain syndromes in Stavropol population was studied. The records of 1897 patients with vertebral pathology aged 18–87 were analysed. The prevalence of vertebral pathology in 2014 amounted to 30 % of the total number of hospitalizations and increased in summer. Women aged 45–60 years dominated among the hospitalized patients. Reflex pain syndromes (74 %) and compression radicular pain syndromes (26 %) consisted the most common type of pathology. Additional examination often revealed degenerative-dystrophic changes of the spine. Complex treatment in most cases was effective, the proportion of neurosurgery was low.

Download

References:
1. Vyshlova I. A. Kubansky nauchny meditsinsky vestnik. – Kuban Research Medical Gazette. 2012;2:47-49.
2. Vyshlova I. A., Karpov S. M., Golovkova O. E. Medicinskii vestnik Severnogo Kavkaza. – Medical News of north Caucasus. 2015;10(3):232-235. doi: 10.14300/ mnnc.2015.10053
3. Vyshlova I. A., Karpov S. M., Shevchenko P. P., Chigrina N. V. Sovremennye problemy nauki i obrazovanija. – Modern problems of science and education. 2015:4; URL: www.science-education.ru/127-20693
4. Kukushkin M. L., Hitrov N. K. Obshhaja patologija boli. M.: «Medicina»; 2004. 44 р.
5. Merskey H., Bogduk N. Classification of chronic pain: descriptions of chronic pain syndromes and definitions of pain terms/prepared by International Association for the Study of Pain, Task Force on Taxonomy; editors, 2nd ed. Seattle: IASP Press; 1994. 222 р.

Keywords: vertebral pain syndrome, epidemiology, treatment