[Complex treatment of lumbosacral radiculoischemia using manual therapy].

A total of 200 patients with discogenic lumbosacral radiculoischemias were investigated and treated. The radiculoischemia was most common in the 5th lumbar radiculus with less frequent involvement of the 1st sacral radiculus. The isolate affliction of the latter was seldom.

[Value of manual therapy in the complex treatment of patients with neurologic manifestations of cervical osteochondrosis].

The authors propose a method for combined treatment of patients with varying neurologic syndromes of cervical osteochondrosis which includes manual therapy, traction of the cervical portion of the vertebral column and some physiotherapeutic procedures (hydrocortisone phonophoresis and various baths). The use of drugs was limited. The above treatment was given to 330 patients with reflectory and radicular syndromes of cervical osteochondrosis.

[Correlation between the severity of atherosclerosis of cerebral, coronary and retinal vessels].

As a result of clinico-physiological examinations 643 patients suffering from cerebral atherosclerosis were divided into 3 groups by the severity of atherosclerosis of the cerebral vessels. These patients also exhibited atherosclerosis of the coronary and retinal vessels. Mathematical methods have been used to study the relationship and severity of atherosclerosis of the cerebral, coronary and retinal vessels.

[Manual therapy of patients with lumbar osteochondrosis with neurologic syndromes].

Manual therapy without any additional therapeutic means was given to 325 patients with reflex syndromes of lumbar osteochondritis in an acute stage or in the stage of exacerbation of recurrent osteochondritis. A series of 454 patients in the stationary stage of exacerbation of the disease with a chronic recurrent course received a multiple modality treatment including manual therapy. Efficacy of the treatment in both groups of the patients considerably exceeded that in patients treated with the conventional (medicamentous and physiotherapeutic) methods.