[The assessment of therapeutic effectiveness of paravertebral blockades in patients with painful radicular syndromes in discopathy and in lumbar spine spondylosis].

A group of 103 patients were examined for radicular painful syndromes in lumbar discopathy and lumbar spondylosis. Fifty-eight were treated by placing them in spine-decompressing position, traction and therapeutic exercises. The group of 45 patients had additionally paravertebral blockade (steroid + a local anaesthetic).

[The significance of radiculography and resonance tomography in the diagnosis and treatment of lumbar discopathy].

The subject of the study was an assessment of the usefulness of radiculography and resonance tomography in the diagnosis of lumbar discopathy. The study was carried out in 100 cases of lumbar discopathy treated at the Department of Spondyloneurosurgery Institute of Rheumatology in Warsaw. Both radiculography and resonance tomography were found to be of equal diagnostic value in the verification of the clinical symptoms of this discopathy.