Experience of clinical and experimental research in the field of reflexology

The materials of the article at the conceptual level summarize the results of their own research aimed at the scientific substantiation of the use of reflexology. In the course of clarifying the significant mechanisms of the method, the primacy of a nonspecific reaction reproducing adaptation to the repeated action of mild stress was experimentally confirmed for the first time. This phenomenon is fixed in practice, in the form of the identity of reactions to various types of zonal electrical stimulation.In addition to this, the fundamental link, when analyzing individual methods, additional influences can be traced. Thus, with lumbosacral dorsopathies, the reliable superiority of pharmacopuncture (i.e., the introduction of drugs into the area of reflexology points) over the compared methods was also manifested in positive structural-modifying changes in the «affected» intervertebral discs. Another effective technique, including in relation todorsopathies, is spectral phototherapy – irritation of reflexogenic zones and points with low-energy light sources with emission spectra of various chemical elements. Among other priority areas, during the correction of social and stress disorders in persons of dangerous professions – employees of law enforcement agencies involved in local operations, and liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, the priority of combining psychological correction and low-frequency electromagnetic effects was noted. In the block of studies on sexology, one third of practically healthy men under 35 years of age recorded a distinct decrease in the sexual activity of persons in the form of a typical pathological condition of humoral, neurotic and vasospastic components. A similar interweaving of links is also revealed in sexual disorders, pathognomonic for men with lumbosacral dorsopathies. In the process of choosing ways to restore sexual activity, experimental data on the stress-limiting effect of various technologies were taken into account. However, in practice, the high effectiveness of spectral phototherapy has been confirmed both in prophylactic and therapeutic terms. These studies are reflected in numerous publications, including monographs, patents for invention and materials of our conferences.

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