Specificity of pain syndrome in degenerative-dystrophic diseases of the cervical spine

INTRODUCTION . Improving the efficiency of diagnostics of neurological complications of degenerative-dystrophic diseases of the cervical spine is one of the most pressing problems of neurology and neurosurgery. One of the most significant and frequently encountered among these complications is pain syndrome. Observation of patients with this spinal pathology allows us to conclude that the currently used diagnostic methods for assessing pain syndrome are not always reliable. One of the more reliable methods for assessing pain syndrome is the method of “Quantitative localization reflection of the intensity of pain syndrome in DDDCS”. The use of this method for assessing the severity of pain syndrome creates conditions for studying the nature and identifying the specifics of pain syndrome. AIM . Based on follow-up observation data, analyze the nature of manifestations of pain syndrome of degenerative-dystrophic diseases of the cervical spine to identify its various specific features. MATERIALS AND METHODS . The work is based on a follow-up study of data on the intensity, structure and manifestations of pain syndrome in 457 patients at various stages of the disease aged 22 to 64 years. Men – 186 (40.7 %), women – 271 (59.3 %). RESULTS . The obtained data allowed us to separate and designate the intensity of multicomponent pain syndrome and subjective data of patients about the process of treating the disease within the range of 0–40 units, as a functionally acceptable pain syndrome, 40–60 units, as a functionally maximum acceptable pain syndrome, 60–100 units, as a functionally unacceptable pain syndrome.