Pain in lower extremities is one of the key symptoms of lumbar radiculopathy. The level of lesion and the severity of compression of the radix are determined by its nature. The severity of pain syndrome is taken into account to make a decision on performance of surgery. The severity of radix pain in radiculopathy was compared with the data of lumbar spine tomography.

The quality of lighting in surgery is the main factor of operative success. The prospects of the application of diod lightning devices in the surgery of lumbar spine dystrophic lesions were developed and analyzed.

Pain syndrome is one of the main clinical manifestations of degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. The severity of pain depends on the degree of compression of spinal roots of the intervertebral disc herniation, osteophytes or hypertrophied yellow ligament. The article presents the comparison of the evaluation results of radicular pain when using different scales of pain.

Discogenic lumbar radiculopathy is a common pathology in population. To perform operations, surgeons must know the size of the anatomical structures. The lumbar vertebral structures at disk hernia level were measured. The received data about the size of vertebra body and intervertebral disks make it possible to plan neurosurgical operations more precisely.

With the method of post interrogation, carries out study of quality of life of the patients who have had the lumbar discectomy. For an estimation of quality of life was used questionnaire with the help of the modified questionnaire NAIF. The answers 348 patients, which was undergoing surgery in time from 1 till 10 years are investigated. The data on change of components of quality of life in the given group of the patients are received.