The relationship of the brainstem ischemia and chronicity of lumboischialgia

Abstract

We analyzed 60 patients aged from 30 up to 75 years with any of low-lumbar herniated intervertebral disks. Pain intensity was compared with the concomitant presence of chronic circulatory failure in the vertebral-basilar basin as a result of clinically significant abnormalities of blood vessels in the form of hypoplasia of vertebral artery and its tortuosity. We investigated dynamics of patient's pain under the influence of low-dose treatment by Cortexin (neurocytoprotector). In patients with chronic brainstem ischemia the herniated discs cause more intense and prolonged pain (radicular and local). More effective in these patients is a treatment with inclusion of Cortexin 20 mg intramuscularly within 10 days.

Keywords

• грыжи поясничных дисков
• хронизация боли
• ишемия ствола мозга
• лечение кортексином
• lumbar disc herniation
• chronic pain
• brainstem ischemia
• cortexin treatment