[Diagnosis and conservative treatment of compression syndromes in lumbar osteochondrosis].

Based on the sufficient clinical material with the use of the current research methods including computer-aided tomography the author provides evidence in favour of a possibility of carrying out successful conservative therapy in the majority of patients with the compression syndromes of lumbar osteochondrosis. Such conservative therapy is of paramount socioeconomic importance, since the percentage of invalidism in the youngest capable age often increases just after the surgical intervention.