FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to vertebrology, traumatology, orthopaedics, neurosurgery and rehabilitation, and can be used for treating inflammatory-degenerative spine and intervertebral disk diseases. The treatment is at least two-staged. The first stage involves at least one course of an integrated therapy including microwave heating of a musculo-ligamentous apparatus in the involved area, drug ionophoresis, electrical myostimulation of an involved nerve by interference currents and drug-induced anti-inflammatory therapy. The second stage include at least one session of focused extracorporeal shock wave therapy directed on a spinal pathological centre area.
EFFECT: method provides high clinical effectiveness leading to pain management with eliminated causes of the disease and low probability in this regard of a relapse, as well as eliminated gastrointestinal, cerebrospinal and suprarenal complications.
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