[Sexual dysfunction in chronic painful radicular syndrome and the ways of its correction].

As many as 120 men suffering from chronic recurrent radicular syndrome of the lumbosacral localization were discovered to have premorbid weakness of sexual constitution and phenomena of functional hypogonadism manifesting itself in imbalance of gonadotropic hormones and sexual dysfunction. To correct the disorders found, use was made of chorionic gonadotropin as part of multimodality therapy, which led to acceleration of painful radicular syndrome regress, less frequent occurrence of disease relapses and contributed to sexual rehabilitation if combined with familial psychotherapy.