[An uncommon cause of testalgia]

Ten men aged 30-55 years suffered for many years from unilateral testalgia without subjective vertebrogenic complaints, and comprehensive urological examination did not reveal the cause of pain. Detailed functional examination of the spine revealed in all patients homolateral blocks of the Th-L transition, in nine men spasms of the musculus psoas, in five moreover a block of the SI synchondrosis on the same side. After a single or repeated release of the block the testalgias receded.