[Postclimacteric spondylopathy].

Results of a dynamic roentgenological (100 patients aged 33 to 89 years), and roentgeno-pathomorphological examination of the osteoarticular apparatus in persons suffering from post-climacteric spondylopathy are presented. A comparison of those results with the clinical and laboratory findings, as well as with similar changes occurring in a number of other diseases showed that it was osteoporosis that underlay the pathological process. The osteoporosis was prevalent in the vertebral column, and led to a vertebrodiscal dissociation that caused a pathological reconstitution of the vertebral bodies.

[Social and work rehabilitation of patients with spinal fractures and their sequelae].

In order to study possible social-working rehabilitation of people with fractures of the backbone and their sequellae complex, mainly dynamic, clinico-laboratory investigations were carried out in 224 people with non-complicated fractures of the thoracic and lumbar sections of the vertebral column within 1--15 and more years after trauma. More than 30% of the patients were considered to be stable invalids at the primary examination. The social-working rehabilitation of people with sequellae of the backbone fractures is based on the state of compensation of the disturbed functions of the vertebral column and the character of the occupation.