The pharmacopuncture in dorsopathy

Objective. The article summarizes the results of many years of own scientific and practical research on the subject of pharmacopuncture – a peculiar way of stimulating reflexology points (otherwise, acupuncture) with small doses of drugs. The "object" of the work carried out was dorsopathy at the lumbosacral level, the choice of which was explained by obvious reasons – the widest coverage of the population, the protracted course and the severity of the consequences. The aim of the study is to clarify the main mechanisms and therapeutic possibilities of pharmacopuncture with various medicines used in the case of vertebrogenic pathology.

Results. In accordance with this goal, the material reflected in the article reveals the mechanisms, technique and effectiveness of local stimulation performed by complex medicines. As part of the statement of priority – in 2002, for the first time in the country, our textbook "Pharmacopuncture" was presented with the stamp of the UMO of Russian Universities, and a program of postgraduate training of specialists lasting 144 hours was developed. In the course of their own research on this topic, the addition and even potentiation of the reflex and drug links of the method under consideration was noted. In particular, favorable changes in the status of patients, observed against the background of pharmacopuncture with complex medicines, were accompanied by a significant improvement in the results of psychological testing and electrophysiological examination. In a series of parallel studies, the significant superiority of pharmacopuncture with Alflutop over the compared methods was manifested, in addition to clinical effects, in positive structural-modifying changes in the intervertebral discs. Using the same medication, an original effective scheme of therapeutic effects was proposed, combining the techniques of blockade according to the method of A. V. Vishnevsky and pharmacopuncture. Particular attention should be paid to the noted fact of enhancing the effectiveness of local drug stimulation due to the combined use of modern hardware techniques. As part of the branch from the main topic, the method was applied to vertebro-somatic weights, manifested in the form of male sexual disorders.

Conclusion. As for the overall result of the work performed, the efficacy and therapeutic reliability of pharmacopuncture performed in lumbosacral dorsopathies with drugs of various registers has been generally confirmed. At the same time, the noted differences in the achieved effects associated with the peculiarities of the applied local stimulation techniques open up the possibility of individualizing their purpose.

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