Abstract. There
are individual predisposal factors very important in the appearance
of the vertebral column changes at sportsmen-the phylogenetic
variations of the development of the column, cranial and caudal(of
which the most frequent was sacrelizing of L5 vertebra),spina bifida
oculta S1,L5 and congenital spondylolisis and spondylolistesism-which
modifying the biomechanics of the vertebral column promotes the
degenerative changes in a higher proportion than for the sportsmen
without anomalies of the vertebral column.
The
changes of the vertebral column at
sportsmen are
grouped into traumatic lesions (bony, ligament, disc, medullar and
those of the soft paravertebral parts),diseases due to the
micro-traumatisms(Baastroup disease, Scheuermann vertebral
epifisitis) and chronic diseases, consequences of macro- and
micro-traumatisms(diseases of the disc, traumatic spondylolisis and
spondylolistesism and changes of the vertebral statics) emphasized by
radiological images, computed tomography(CT) and magnetic resonance
imaging(MRI) of the sportsmen examined in the National Institute of
Sports Medicine.
Key
words: vertebral column, sportsmen, radio
-imagery. 
