FIELD: medicine. 
     SUBSTANCE: orthopaedic unload is accompanied with prescribing a therapeutic diet promoting weight reduction and adequate feeding of calcium and vitamins C, D, E, K.That is combined with the oral administration of Fosamax® tablets 70 mg once a week for 6 months, Arthrodarin® capsules 50 mg in the morning and evening for 4-6 months and nasal sprayings of Miacalcic® 200 International Units/day in cycles of 2 weeks every 2 weeks for 4-6 months. What is also used is Milgamma® solution for intramuscular injections 2 ml a day, at least 10 times, with a pause of 1 day. Alflutop® 2 ml a day is injected intramuscularly daily within at least 20 days. That is combined with a therapeutic course including 8-10 therapeutic sessions each of which consists of the two stages of procedures following each other. The first of this stages involve the successive one-day abdominal decompression of the lower body from the waist down, pneumocompression massage of legs, manual and vacuum massages. The exposure segments are: hip joints - lateral surface of hips, gluteal region and paravertebral area L2-L5, cervical segment - paravertebral area C7-T1 and sacral bone. A preferred pause between the above procedures is no more than 10-15 minutes. Thereafter, the first stage of the therapeutic session is completed by conducting a hirudotherapy with the use of no more than 8 medicinal leeches per one session to be placed on the cervical paravertebral area C7-T1 and lumbar paravertebral area L2-L5, sacral bone, tail bone, abdomen within the liver, lower abdomen, painful hip segments and/or segments discoloured after the massage. Each therapeutic session is completed by successive procedures of the second stage with a pause of at least 3 days. A magnetic therapy and a barolasertherapy cover the segments: hip joints - lateral surface of hips, gluteal region and paravertebral areas L2-L5. A phonophoresis with the used of karipain gel covers the gluteal, knee and hip segments. Thereafter, 24 hours later the therapeutic session is repeated depending on the patient's state no more than 10 times. That is followed by doing therapeutic physical exercises in the swimming pool within at least 10 days. Kartalax® peptide preparation 1-2 ml in the concentration of at least 100 mcg in 1 ml diluted together with Tymalin® 10 mg is administered daily once a day for 10 days. After the injections are completed, peptide Vezugen® capsules 0.2 g are orally administered in the morning and in the evening 10-15 minutes before meals for 30 days. After the continuous and single course of Fosamax® and nasal sprayings of Miacalcic® are completed, 1-2 months later Osteogenon® tablets 830 mg are administered daily in a dose of 2-4 tablets 2 times a day, and Arthrodarin® capsules are also taken in a dose of 50 mg in the morning and in the evening for 4-6 months. The oral administration of the last-mentioned two preparations is repeated at least three months later. 
     EFFECT: preventing bone absorption and loss, restoring the shape, volume and normal consistence of an intraarticular cartilage that makes it possible to avoid the further progression of the disease and a necessity of surgical management in this group of patients. 
     3 cl, 3 ex