How is it called – “Osteochondrosis” or “sciatica”? Or the talk is about the experience of approach to terminological dilemma. Experienced reader may be surprised by such a formulation of the question – the paradigm of osteochondrosis has been already ruling over neurological minds, as well as those having a different professional orientation at least a quarter of a century. The magic of it has turned out to be so great that resonant voice, with a call to give osteochondrosis at the mercy of orthopedic industry that could be sometimes heard, is unheard by neurologists who are the specialists traditionally involved in pathology, formerly known as sciatica, radiculitis then, and now it is called osteochondrosis.
Of course, terminological conversion has not influenced the clinical content of disease, which is characterized by pains in the spine and limbs, jet vertebral deformities, proper neural and other violations, but has also exposed a fundamental aspect, relating to understanding of the nosological substance of disorders we are speaking about.
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