[Pathogenesis and treatment of sexual disorders in men with vertebrogenic lumbar pain].

Evaluation of the sexual sphere in 120 men with vertebrogenic lumbar pains revealed sexual disorders in 35% of cases, which may be reduced to two basic symptom-complexes. Decrease of potency in a group of 20 patients presenting with both reflex and radicular patterns of lumbar osteochondrosis was regarded as a reflection of general asthenic processes. In 22 patients primarily suffering from reflex neurovascular syndromes, dysfunction was established to be of vasculogenic nature. Differentiated methods of conventional therapy of the disorders were noted to be effective enough. Doppler investigation of the regional arteries turned out informative in the estimation of the correction of sexual disorders of vascular genesis.