%0 Journal Article
%T Back pain: gender features
%A Kurushina O.V.
%A Barulin A.E.
%J Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research
%D 2012
%I Saratov State Medical University
%X The goal of the research is to study features of a back pain syndrome and its medicalization at men and women. There were 217 patients with a back pain being on treatment in neurologic department of the regional clinical hospital ¡í1 (Volgograd). The results of the research indicate big prevalence of acute back pain syndromes at men, chronic ones ¡ª at women. Thus, women show big need for a medicalization of the pain, but men ask for a medical care less then women. As a result men feel considerable diffculties at the description of nature of algetic disorder.Conclusion. It is necessary to take into consideration the revealed gender features of patients with a back pain in the process of planning therapeutic actions.
%K back pain
%K gender features
%K medicalization
%U http://www.ssmj.ru/system/files/201202_477-481.pdf