METHOD OF TREATMENT OF SUBACUTE DE QUERVAIN'S DISEASE USING COLD IR-LASER THERAPY AND NONSTEROID AND STEROID PREPARATIONS Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A61N5/67 

FIELD: medicine; endocrinology.

SUBSTANCE: cold scattered laser radiation is used at wave length 0.89 mcm and power 2 Wt. Contact cutaneous technique is used for irradiation in projection of lobes of thyroid gland at exposition 3-4 minutes per each lobe. According to disease severity level, for the first 5-10^th sessions radiation 3000 Hz is used, while thereafter till the last procedure, radiation frequency is reduced to 300 Hz. For the patient with mild severity level of disease, laser therapy is applied as independent method of treatment. Though for the patient with moderate severity level of disease, laser therapy is combined with nonsteroid anti-inflammatory preparations (NAIP). Thus to patients with moderate severity level of disease, Ortofen dosed 3 ml 1-2 times a day is intramuscularly injected as NAIP. For the patient with severe disease, laser therapy and NAIP is added with introduction into thyroid gland of Kenalog dosed 20 mg per each lobe dissolved 1:1 with 0.5% novocaine solution 1 to 3 times every 5-7 days.

EFFECT: reduced treatment time.

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