FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, manual diagnostics and therapy, medical rehabilitation and can be used in outpatient practice, specialized medical and health resort facilities. First, a diagnostic test – flexion test – is used to determine which segments are blocked by spinal mobility. For this purpose, standing behind a patient sitting astride a chair, thumbs of both hands are placed on the left and on the right above the transverse processes of the vertebra located below the examined vertebral segment. Further, the patient performs active segment-by-segment flexion of the head and body forward. If observing the phenomenon of asymmetric advance of the thumb displacement on one side, as compared to the other side, the presence of a muscle block at the level of this segment is stated with flexion due to the above segments of the spine. Diagnostic flexion test is used to sequentially examine all segments of the spine in the direction from bottom to top or from top to bottom, placing muscle blocks at the level of the corresponding segments. Further, for the therapeutic manipulation at the C2-3 level in the initial position of the patient – sitting astride a chair straight, the doctor stands behind the patient, the doctor fixes the thumb of the first hand on the transverse process of the C3 vertebra on the side of the muscle block established during the diagnostic flexion test. Palm of the second hand is placed on the frontal-temporal region of the patient's head, opposite to the side of the established muscle block. Using the head as a lever, three successive techniques are performed: 1) first, the patient’s head is passively turned towards the installed muscle block until the patient’s muscles begin to move under the thumb of the doctor’s first hand placed on C3, 2) then passive extension of the patient's head is carried out with the help of a doctor's hand until a sensation of the beginning of movement of the patient's muscles under the thumb of the doctor’s first hand, 3) passive lateroflexion of the patient's head is performed on the side of the established muscle block with the help of the doctor’s hands pressure until the patient’s muscles begin to move under the thumb of the doctor’s first hand, after which the movement is stopped, and the patient in this position performs 3 inhalation-exhalation cycles in a comfortable for him/her tempo. Then, in the reverse sequence of three movements, the patient’s head is passively returned to the initial position, and the repeated diagnostic flexion test is carried out, controlling the dynamics of the previously established muscle blocks at the level of the corresponding segments. If the muscle blocks persist or recur, the therapeutic manipulation is repeated at the C2-3 level until they are completely removed under the control of the diagnostic flexion test.
EFFECT: accurate diagnosis of blocks at any levels of the spine and control of their removal and state of biomechanics using this test during therapeutic manual exposure, with simplicity of its implementation and possibility of rapid monitoring of correction results, improved blood flow in vessels feeding the craniovertebral junction and the rest of the SMS, normalization of tone muscles and mobility in the SMS with the elimination of the compression of the neurovascular bundles and the dysfunctions of the internal organs caused by the functional blocks at the corresponding levels; stable therapeutic effect for at least six months.
1 cl, 6 dwg, 3 ex
