Application of Scales and Questionnaires in Pain Assessment of Lumbar Radiculopathy

Abstract

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.