METHOD OF TREATING MYELOPATHY Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC A61H1/00 A61H33/00 A61H33/04 A61M35/00 A61M1/34 A61M1/36 A61F7/12 A61K31/51 A61K38/17 A61P25/02 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method involves the intravenous and/or intramuscular introduction of the drugs used in myelopathy, balneotherapy in the form of baths. Acupressure and manual therapy are applied in addition. The manual therapy requires such techniques, as ischemic compression, release phenomenon, fascial broach, postisometric relaxation of the muscles involved in a pathological process. Discontinuous therapeutic plasmapheresis is applied with using either Baxter, or Bekman, or Haemophoenix apparatuses, and/or extracorporal ultraviolet blood irradiations is ensured by the apparatus Isolda MD 73 M. The apparatus Cryo-Jet is used for cryotherapy with cooled dry air at the level of degenerative dystrophic changed vertebral motor cervical segments and muscle attachment points.

EFFECT: method improves clinical effectiveness due to fast pain management, enlarged range of active and passive motions, normalised muscular tonus, increased muscular strength and corrected vegetovascular disorders.

6 cl, 3 ex