[Catecholamine excretion as an index of the effectiveness of treatment in radiculitis patients with a pain syndrome].

The authors studied the excretion of catecholamines in the diurnal urine in patients with sacrolumbar and cervicothoracal radiculitis in the acute stage with pain and the changes of excretion under the influence of physiotherapy. In radiculities with the pain syndrome there was an activation of catecholamine systems, mainly in the hormonial link of the sympathico-adrenal system. Following treatment along with the disappearance of the pain syndrome there is a normalization of the excretion of adrenalin, noradrenalin and the terminal product of inactivated catecholamine in the diurnal urine. This gives ground to assume that the results of these biochemical studies may serve as indices of the therapeutic effectiveness.