Rehabilitation results in patients after operation of discopathy in lumbo-sacral section

Teresa Pop, Krzysztof Kołodziej, Maria Pabis, Grzegorz Przysada, Piotr Szpunar

Teresa Pop, Krzysztof Kołodziej, Maria Pabis, Grzegorz Przysada, Piotr Szpunar – Rehabilitation results in patients after operation of discopathy in lumbo-sacral section. Fizjoterapia Polska 2002; 2(4); 280-284

Abstract
Background. In results from data in literature and our observations that 2% of patients with the low back pain requires operational treatment. The work presents algorithm of rehabilitation of patients after the operation of removing the nucleus pulposus in the lumbosacral section. Material and methods. Twenty patients were examined, who in a period of November 2000 till March 2001 were operated at the Neurosergical Department and rehabilitated in the Physiotherapy Laboratory of the Rehabilitation Department of the District Hospital No. 2 in Rzeszów. In order to evaluate pain a visual analogue scale VAS and five-points Likert’s scale were used. The examination was performed three times: before and after the surgery and after a three weeks’ period of rehabilitation. Results and conclusions. The algorithm of procedure in the post-surgery period was proposed, in which complex rehabilitation was taken into consideration, among others physiotherapy, psychotherapy, pharmacotheraphy, professional advising, teaching ergonomy of labour and rest.

Key words:
discopathy, Low Back Pain, nucleus pulposus, Likert’s scale

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