FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves preliminarily taking-off internal stress of a patient and introduced him/her into relaxation state. Massage is applied in dorsal and prone position. It is started on the background of calming musical composition. Superficial tactile receptors located in hair bulb zones are treated to cause itch or tickling feeling in the patient. Then, pressure applied to patient skin is increased on the background of musical accompaniment in applying deep strokes techniques and acting in this way upon subcutaneous fat tissue mechanoreceptors to cause pink color to appear on skin. The final massage stage involves kneading extremity, back and pelvis muscles also in concordance with musical accompaniment rhythm. The procedure is accomplished with water procedures administration in using comfortable water temperature. This time strokes are applied in the direction from feet towards haired head part using fingertips on both hands in conformance with musical accompaniment rhythm. The musical accompaniment rhythm is accelerated at each step when compared to the previous one. Muscle kneading is carried out along muscle fibers and muscle axis on extremities and transversely to muscle fibers on the dorsal, pelvic and abdominal areas. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of treatment; accelerated treatment course. 7 cl
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2004-02-20—Published
2002-07-10—Filed