METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING FUNCTIONAL BLOCK OF CERVICAL REGION OF THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves palpating transverse processes in direct posture state, rotating head to detect muscle resistance degree, painful points between the transverse processes, reduced movements in doing lateral bending towards the functional block and transverse processes displacement. Passive head bending until the chin touches breast bone, 90 deg head rotation in turn with face surface placed on the horizontal plane, head rotation in turn with fixing chin and following lateral inclinations, active head inclinations, bendings, straightenings, rotations in turn are additionally carried out. Lateral displacement in frontal plane from the line connecting them on the same side when transverse process top being displaced to the median side on the opposite side of the neck, reduced transverse processes top movement amplitude on one side, reduced movements volume of the transverse processes of a vertebra taking superior position with respect to one occupying inferior position, transformation of circle circumscribed by the head in performing rotation motion around the vertical axis into ellipse being detected, functional block is diagnosed. The top position on the ellipse corresponds to functional block side. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness in detecting functional blocks.