METHOD OF TREATING INFLAMMATORY-DEGENERATIVE ARTHROPATHIES Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61N5/67 A61N7/00 A61K31/10 A61K31/196 A61K31/728 A61K35/32 A61P19/02 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely traumatology, orthopaedics and rehabilitation, and may be used for treating inflammatory-degenerative arthropathies. The therapy is three-staged. The first stage involves at least one course of the integrated therapy aiming at inflammatory response suppression and pain syndrome arrest. The second stage involves at least one session of focused extracorporeal shock wave therapy to create microcavities buried in a interarticular cartilage. At the third stage, the created microcavities buried in the interarticular cartilage are filled with a modelling compound by interarticular electrophoresis followed by stabilising the modelling compound. The modelling compound is represented by a mixture of 15 portions of fine biopolymer gel, 65 portions of hyaluronic acid, 15 portions of animal's articular cartilage extracts and 5 portions of Dimexidum solution. The modelling compound is stabilised by non-invasive exposure to pulse high-power IR laser at wave length 785 nm and heated to 44 Celsius degree.

EFFECT: method provides high clinical effectiveness to be implemented in outpatient care that enables avoiding a surgical intervention, including joint replacement, and ensuring complete removal ensured by possibility of recovery of shape, volume and normal consistence of the interarticular cartilage.

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