[Vertebral joint meniscoids in the norm and in functional blocking of the vertebral segment].
Meniscoids have been studied of the intervertebral joints in normal subjects and in blocking of the vertebral locomotory segment. Development of changes in meniscoids in functional blocking of the vertebral segment is shown as is in different degrees of incomplete dislocation in the intervertebral joint. In an unremoved blocking of the vertebral segment the soft tissues of the joint gradually undergo accelerated dystrophy (the joint capsule, meniscoid, articular cartilage). In the early periods of blocking meniscoid becomes hyperplastic (edema), it comes to be wedged in the cavity of the joint rendering it immobile. The findings secured are helpful when it comes to choosing between different policies of managing vertebrogenic disorders and to administering prophylaxis thereof.