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Patients with a pain assessment on a visual analogue scale (VAS) of 6 to 10 points were divided into two groups: Group I included patients with pharmacological, syndrome-oriented treatment (n = 30, age 54.9 \u00b1 2.3 years); Group II included a combination of pharmacotherapy with self-controlled energy-neuroadaptive regulation (SCENAR) (n = 25, age 52.8 \u00b1 2.5 years). The analysis showed that the addition of SCENAR therapy (Group II) significantly potentiated the analgesic effect at the stages of treatment, and after 3 weeks, this had increased by more than two times, by 1.3 points on the VAS. There was also a significant decrease in the maximum internal temperature and normalization of the gradient of internal and skin temperatures, and a decrease in thermo-asymmetry, as assessed by temperature fields. Thermal asymmetry visualization allows the identification of the area of pathological muscle spasm and\/or inflammation in the projection of the vertebral-motor segment for the possible targeted use of treatment methods such as percutaneous electro neurostimulation, massage, manual therapy, diagnostic and treatment blocks, etc. The MWR method also avoids unnecessary radiation exposure.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics12051220","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,12]],"date-time":"2022-05-12T21:46:53Z","timestamp":1652392013000},"page":"1220","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Treatment and Companion Diagnostics of Lower Back Pain Using Self-Controlled Energo-Neuroadaptive Regulator (SCENAR) and Passive Microwave Radiometry (MWR)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9925-9271","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexander Viktorovich","family":"Tarakanov","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don 344022, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9626-0891","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexander Alexandrovich","family":"Tarakanov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don 344022, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tatyana","family":"Kharybina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Igor","family":"Goryanin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biological Systems Unit, Okinawa Institute Science and Technology, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan"},{"name":"School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JS, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"743","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(15)60692-4","article-title":"Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990\u20132013: A systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 2013","volume":"386","author":"Vos","year":"2015","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2022, April 01). 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