Introduction. In modern medicine, helping patients with back pain is an urgent issue. Often the cause of back pain is osteochondrosis. Often people become disabled. There are many different therapies. In our work we investigate modern non-drug therapies.
Purpose of research: to investigate the effect of the transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) method in complex therapy on the severity of pain syndrome in patients with neurological manifestations of osteochondrosis of the lumbar spine at the stage of rehabilitation.
Materials and methods. The study involved 120 patients with neurological manifestations of lumbar spine osteochondrosis. All passed a complex clinical and neurological examination. According to the purpose of the study, patients were divided into 2 groups: the primary (n=62) and control (n=58). All patients received complex treatment. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation was included in the treatment of patients from the main group. The pain syndrome was assessed using a visual analog scale, Oswestry Disability Index, McGill and Rolland-Morris questionnaires.
Results. At the beginning of treatment, the pain syndrome was 100%. As a result of the received physiotherapeutic treatment, the pain syndrome completely disappeared in 76.1% of the first group and in 56.1% of the second group. Effectiveness of treatment experienced on the 4th day 45 patients from both groups. In the case of integrated treatment, the general condition of patients improved significantly, normal movement activity was restored.