About the so-called "Lumbago" and its recognition

Abstract

Having become a trusted doctor of the insurance office, I came close to the question of the so-called "lumbago". Previously, I had little interest in him, although I had the misfortune to get sick with him myself. This happened, as usual, at the moment of lifting a great weight. Suddenly I felt back pain and inability to move. The only position in which I felt good was vertical. I absolutely could not lie and sit bent over. The disease went away within one week, leaving no inclination to recur. As a trusted physician, I encountered lumbago on a different plane. I had to make sure that lumbago refers to the so-called dubious diseases that do not have objective symptoms and therefore give shaky diagnoses and a fairly wide field for simulation. The attending physicians constantly told me that the lumbago is for them a kind of cross, that there is no way to establish the truth and reveal pretense with it. The study of the lumbago cases from the bulletins led me, however, to some rather important conclusions.

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Kazan Medical archive

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Shtcherbatsky V.