[Treatment of lumbar pain syndrome of disk etiology at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic (Praxis) 1996-2000].
In this paper is valoriziaed the successfulness of the treatment of 1,431 patients with the verification disc hernia (CT, MRI) in the surgery for the physical medicine and the rehabilitation in the period from 1966 till 2000 year, by "Praxis method". It is established that in the structure of the treated patients by the structure of the treated patients by the application of this method the best results were achieved by disc hernia in the level L4-L5 without the motor deficiency (567 patients), with the average treatment length 24.38 days and the average estimation of the results 4.06 and then in patients with the disc hernia L5-S1. In disc hernia without diagnostic verified disorder of the motorics, the result of the physical therapy and the rehabilitation was better. This can be observed from the treatment successfulness estimation and the treatment length and number of days of the treatment. The longest treatment was by hernia L5-S1 with the motor disorderly (43.10 days), and the shortest in the disc lesion at the level L4-L5 (24.38 days). Among the patients with disc hernia which in this period were treated was operated only 58 or 4.05%. The age structure of the treated patients with disc hernia amounted averagelly 49.95 years, and the greatest number of the treated belonged to the age group 35 to 44 years.
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Dzemal
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Centar za fizikalnu medicinu i rehabilitaciju Sarajevo.
Masić
Izet
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Karić
Mediha
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Kulenović
Husein
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Pecar
Muris
M
Mujić
Muzafer
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008875:Middle Aged; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities