METHOD FOR REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS SUFFERING DEFORMING ARTHROSIS OF KNEE JOINTS Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61H1/00 A61H7/00 A61H9/00 A61H39/04 A61H39/08 A61H33/04 A61M35/00 A61N1/32 A61N5/06 A61K35/10 A61K36/48 A61P19/02 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to - arthrology, physiotherapy, balneology. The method involves physical methods of therapy, therapeutic exercises, massage, acupuncture and phytotherapy. The patients are trained to give a self-massage of the knee joints additionally during the resort therapy and after the termination of the rehabilitation. From the 1^st to 10^th day of the therapeutic course patient's knee joint is exposed to polychromatic polarised light at 20 cm for 6 minutes. The patients take 10 iodine-bromine baths at temperature 37°C for 10 minutes. From the 1^st to 5^th therapeutic days, the patients do combined therapeutic exercises; their lower extremities are massaged manually for 10 minutes. From the 6^th to 15^th days, the knee joints are exposed to sinusoid modulated currents (SMC) at modulation frequency 100 Hz, at a depth of 50 - 70%, current intensity to moderate vibration for 7 minutes. From the 6^th to 10^th days, the braking acupuncture follows by giving a 1-2-minute massage of the points 10RP, 9RP, 36E, 34E by introducing a needle for 30 seconds and by giving a point massage of cheng-fu, cuan, yang-lin-cuan, zu-sang-li, wei-yang, cheng-shan, chung-feng, hun-lun, nei-ting. The patients take a herbal infusion. From the 11^th to 15^th days, the knee joints are exposed to decimetric waves (DMW). That is followed by a hydro-massage of the lower extremities and lumbar region for 15 minutes up to 3 atm. Thereafter, the 10-minute post-isometric relaxation of the quadriceps muscle of thigh is applied. The patients do the complex of weight reduction exercises and take the herbal infusion. From the 16^th to 20^th day, the mud applications on the knee joints are prescribed at temperature 42°C for 30 minutes. If suffering gonarthrosis, the patients do the complex of therapeutic exercises. That is followed by the paravertebral vacuum therapy of the vertebral column. The 10-minute knee joint traction is applied. The patients take 20 g of the herbal infusion.

EFFECT: method recovers the joint mobility, improves the exercise tolerance of the lower extremities.

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