Abstract
A classification of lumbar spine diseases into the List of Occupational Diseases is a presently discussed question. The proves of acknowledging an occupational disease in this country has specific features, when the fulfillment of clinical criteria is followed objective evaluation of specific conditions of the work under investigation.
The objective of this communication is an applicative approach in the procedure verifying conditions of the disease origin for the sake of evaluating an occupational disease in specific working conditions, therefore the evaluation of associations of the developed health complaints with the work performed by the patient with chronic lumbago, who has worked for at least three years in conditions, which could cause, according to general occupational-medical presumptions to overload of lumbar spine. The principal parameter for evaluating lumbar spine load is the estimation of compression exerted on intervertebral disk in the L4/5 region evaluated by means of specially created calculation module.