Assessment of vertebral pathology of drivers of vehicles of industrial enterprises
One of the many professional groups employed in many sectors of the economy is truck drivers, whose work is characterized by a complex of adverse production factors, of which physical activity, vibration, adverse microclimate, intensity of work, as a rule, are the main reasons for the formation of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, including vertebrogenic pathology. According to the results of a polyclinic examination of male truck drivers employed at industrial enterprises of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 73.8 % have vertebral diseases of the cervical spine (cervicalgia/cervicobrachialgia) and 89.2 %. — of the lumbosacral one (lumbalgia/ lumbar ischialgia, radiculopathy). An increase in the length of service negatively affects the course of the disease, leading to an increase in the neurological deficit from the reflex stage in the group of people with a work experience of up to 9 years to the compression-radicular stage with an experience of more than 20 years. The data presented indicate the need to develop a set of targeted measures of sanitary-hygienic and medical-rehabilitation nature.