Spinal injections under the control of computed tomography with laser navigation

Disorders of the spine are a civilization problem, a kind of epidemic of our time, not only because of its spread and population range, but also its occurrence at an increasingly young age. It is assumed that 75-85% of the population complains of pain at the back of the spine, at least once in its lifetime (life-related morbidity), and about 3-5% of the population complains of radicular pain.1,2 The rate of lumbar spine pain is also influenced by the degree of industrialization of the society, it turns out that in populations of highly developed countries this percentage is significantly higher.3 Over 90% of cases of pain in the lumbar spine are included in the group of so-called non-specific mechanical origin. Among them, degenerative-overstrain changes associated with intervertebral disc degeneration (Degenerative Disc Disease, DDD) and the consequences of intersegmental instability and traumatic changes prevail.