LUMBODYNIA TREATMENT METHOD Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A61H39/08 A61H1/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to neurology. The method implies acupuncture by inserting the needles and physical exercises including flexion, extension, left and right rotation, left and right lateroflexion. Herewith at first the patient while making physical exercises series informs on pain zones that the doctor palpates finds points of maximum tenderness, marks them and inserts the needles while the patient is in the standing position. Then the patient makes painful movements again 10-12 times. In movement gap, the doctor rotates the inserted needles counterclockwise. In case there is no new pain zones observed, the patient makes exercises again 3-4 times. If new pain zones are found, they are examined for points of maximum tenderness with inserting the additional needles therein, while patient continues with making exercises. If pain zones are detected in making various exercises, the patient makes pelvic rotations as a combination of all the movements in lumbar spine. After the exercises, the needles are removed.

EFFECT: method provides reduction of lumbodynia and restoration of complete mobility in lumbar spine within five days.

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