[The course of neurological manifestations of lumbar osteochondrosis and the quantitative assessment of prognostically significant factors].

On the basis of computer-assisted processing of an archive of formalized histories of 2187 patients with neurological manifestations of lumbar osteochondrosis the author has revealed a number of regularities characterizing the time-course of this disease. A comparative quantitative assessment of the prognostic value of a number of history, clinical and paraclinical parameters is presented. Tabulated and computerized systems predicting the course of the disease in a given patients are described. Data obtained during 1-3 year long follow up are presented.