METHOD FOR TREATING LOWER EXTREMITIES LYMPHOSTASIS Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves subjecting patient organism to combined treatment. The treatment involves applying correcting reflex therapy done with finger tips and including mechanical pressure and kneading sequentially applied to covering tissues on the back in lower thoracic and lumbar segments of the vertebral column until stable hyperemia strips appear at places of thoracic and abdominal cavities sympathetic trunk projections with following series of blows with palm base delivered into the tenar-hypotenar region in the direction from vertebral column center towards peripheral part on the area of celiac arteries on both sides. The therapy course is combined with physical training exercises complex. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of treatment.