METHOD FOR TREATING HERNIATED DISK Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, neurology. SUBSTANCE: one should conduct acupuncture reflexotherapy, postisometric relaxation of spasmodic muscles, after vacuum evaporation it is necessary to puncture neuroosteofibrous foci and periosteal incisions in the projection of palpationally revealed indurations. After hemorrhage stoppage a leech should be put onto a site of puncture. About 3-10 leeches are put onto the area of affected disks. A course is finished with a complex including a medicinal blockade, curative physical culture, applications of dimexide-curative mixture onto both gluteal and lumbar areas. In the course of therapy it is necessary to measure cutaneous potential. EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy. 2 ex