The authors present a survey of patients who underwent periradiculotherapy. Their experience is based on the cohort of 230 patients having been applied 366 interventions altogether at the Department of Radiology of the Brno Faculty Hospital (Bohunice workplace). The main purpose of the interventions is to offer another alternative treatment of backache to the patients. It has become obvious that the method may be useful in the treatment of acute radicular pain provided indication criteria are strictly observed and the intervention is precisely performed. The most persuasive results were reached in patients with monoradicular defect, when the intervertebral disc is protruded. The intervention is not as a substitution for surgical treatment of disc hernia, but should provide a non-operative procedure by means of percutaneous intervention. This method is also useful in patients with postoperation fibrosis. Although the results in this group are not persuasive as far as the percentage of cured patients is concerned, the treatment appears to be useful for immediate relief of pain and decreasing doses of orally administered non-steroid antirheumatic drugs.

        Key words: periradiculotherapy – administration of steroids – backache