Surgical Management of a Pediatric Infratentorial Subdural Empyema as a Complication of Parapharyngeal Abscess.

Infratentorial empyema is a rare medical emergency typically presenting secondary to a middle ear infection. Nonspecific symptoms, limited access to radiological facilities, and imaging artifacts render this pathology prone to misdiagnosis and delayed intervention. An 11-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with a high fever, cervicalgia, and a two-week history of frontal headache.

[Myofascial meridional reflexotherapy of scapulohumeral periarthrosis in the course of the combined spa and health resort-based treatment].

The authors draw attention to the role of a whiplash injury in the pathogenesis of scapulohumeral periarthrosis (SHP). Peculiarities of the specific pathological biomechanical changes associated with this condition are described. The study included a group of 64 patients in whom the localization of the myofascial trigger points (MFTT) of the shortened muscles is described with reference to the differential techniques for soft-tissue manual therapy.

[Myofascial dysfunction of the lumboinguinal muscle and the experience with the diagnostic and therapeutic work in a cabinet of reflexotherapy].

The authors present a detailed description of the following diagnostic and therapeutic modalities: palpation techniques for the detection of myofascial trigger points, the dynamic ischemic compression maneuver that makes it possible to identify the pathomorphological substrate of the trigger point lying deep in the muscular tissue, and the methods of musculofascial meridional reflexotherapy for the alleviation ofmyofascial pains. The importance of the correction of structural disproportions in the musculoskeletal apparatus potentiating inactivation of myofscial trigger points (MfTP) is emphasized.

[Sanatorium-based treatment of lumbar quadrate myofascial pain syndrome].

This paper summarizes experience gained in the Central Military Sanatorium, Sochi, in the field of diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients with myofascial pain syndrome affecting the quadratum lumborum muscle. Conditions facilitating development of triggering myofascial structures in these muscles are analysed and methods of their diagnosis are discussed. The proposed compression test allows active trigger structures to be identified in the quadratum lumborum muscle.