Modern Approaches to the Treatment of Back Pain and Radiculopathy

Abstract

Pain in the area of the cervical, thoracic or lumbar spine periodically occurs in almost every person of working age. The most common (about 90%) cause of back pain is a dysfunction of the muscular and articular-ligamentous apparatus of the spine. In the modern literature, this condition is referred to by the term "non-specific back pain" due to the fact that, regardless of the root cause that caused back pain, the pathogenetic mechanisms of the development of this disease are the same.