[Acupuncture reflex therapy in the treatment of coccygodynia].

A complex of measures including physiotherapy, procaine-alcohol blockades, and massage of the coccyx and muscles of the pelvic floor were used in the treatment of 37 patients. Acupuncture reflex therapy was applied in addition in 24 patients. The complex method led to stable recovery of most of the patients.

[Meralgia paresthetica in patients with osteochondrosis of the spine].

Clinical and electrophysiologic examinations of 1220 patients with spinal osteochondrosis syndromes have made it possible to distinguish two variants of meralgia paresthetica, permanent and transitory ones. Different methods for the management of the syndrome were developed, with due consideration for the aforementioned variants.