RESUMEN
This paper deals with the problems of pelvic girdle asymmetry in patients with spinal osteochondrosis. Effectiveness of medicamentous and rehabilitative treatment of such patients is compromised by destructive changes in the vertebrae. Analysis of locomotor disturbances and their dynamics under effect of remedial gymnastics prescribed on an individual basis showed that the main factor limiting success of osteochondrosis therapy is muscular disbalance in the pelvic girdle. This dictates the necessity to start prevention or treatment of the disease and rehabilitation of the patients from the correction of muscular asymmetry. The muscular corset should be formed so as to ensure dynamic equilibrium of muscular tone (between antagonist muscles) bearing in mind that disbalance in the tone of flexor and extensor muscles (both homo- and contralateral ones) contributes to recurring pain syndrome and further aggravates pelvic asymmetry. Its correction in due time constitutes a major condition for the prevention of diseases affecting not only joints of the lower extremities but also lumbar spine especially in patients subject to intense occupational and sports exertion.