Surgery – Miscellaneous – Methods
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-22
2001-04-03
Isabella, David J. (Department: 3738)
Surgery
Miscellaneous
Methods
Reexamination Certificate
active
06209545
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to the medicine, and more precisely, concerns the method for recovering the peripheral nerve function.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
It is known that the nervous system is the most integrated system of the human body, representing both structurally and functionally a single whole. In this connection, even its local injuries impact the functionality not only of neighboring structures but also of those ones located remotely. The nervous system lesion is accompanied by a variety of disturbances of internal organ functions caused by disruption of normal regulating functions of the nervous system in the case of its pathology. All kinds of the nervous system diseases are accompanied in one degree or another by the vegetative disturbances. The autonomic nervous system pathology and its dysfunctions influence the origin and course of some somatic diseases. Vegetative disturbances lead to disorders of internal organs, endocrine system, blood vessels, thermoregulation and metabolism. Different vis-cero-functional, neuro-vegetative, nervous and subjective disorders due to their variety can simulate many organic diseases so that a great variety of diagnoses and strangest diagnoses can be applied to them, especially if the clinical examination did not define the essential objective changes in the human body. Even a mental and physical fatigue may produce all subjective pathologic symptoms and thus simulate the whole clinical pathology. All this can cause the real functional disorders which do not only simulate a disease, but even produce it, reaching the originating of visceral diseases (dysfunctional disorders at the beginning, and then organo-dystrophic ones); in psychiatric practice such cases include the spectrum from simple behavior disturbances to serious mental pathological disorders and to the psychopathology. It happens because the fatigue impacts the nervous system, organs and tissues by toxic, dismetabolic and chemical reflections which can give rise to many serious diseases, for example, to activate the latent tuberculosis, to cause an outbreak of the infection disease, or allergic manifestation, or even the cancer (see the book A. Peunesku-Podyanu. “Difficult cases. Indefinitely expressed and difficult explained sufferings”, Medical Publishing House, Bucharest, 1976, pp. 215-216). The medicamental treatment of peripheral nervous lesions, and also the therapeutic physical training in combination with the general massage are well known at present Small Medical Encyclopedia. Moscow, Great Russian Encyclopedia Publishing House, 1991, vol. 3, pp. 551-552). However, such treatment does not always ensure the full recovery of functions of traumatized peripheral nerves.
It is known that a neurologist has no possibility to see the pathology focus and, with rare exceptions, cannot palpate or auscultate it because the central nervous system is locked in the bone shells (skull and vertebral column), and peripheral nerves are mainly disposed in the depth of soft tissues A. M. Pulatov et al. “Propedeutics of nervous diseases”, published by “Irfon”, Dushanbe, 1970, p. 5).
It is well known from the general physiology of excitable membranes B. M. Khodorov, “The Handbook of Physiology”, vol. “General physiology of excitable membranes”, Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House, 1980), that stretching the peripheral nerves increases the number of “rapid” sodium ion channels in the activated state, and decreasing of their stretching leads correspondingly to decreasing the number of activated sodium channels. Increasing the number of “rapid” sodium channels in the activated state leads, as it is well-known, to increasing the generation frequency of operation transmembrane potentials and to raising the tonic bioelectrical activity of corresponding nerves. On the contrary, decreasing the number of activated “rapid” channels leads correspondingly to decreasing tonic bioelectrical activity of peripheral nerves.
The method for recovering the peripheral nerve function by means of performing the massage along a nerve is well known (SU, 1569013, Al, Int.Cl
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. A 61 H 25/00, 1990). When treating by this method, the vibrating massage is acted along with the damaged nerve and reflexogenic zone corresponding to it with a vibrating massage apparatus in sequence at predetermined increasing frequencies and during the predetermined time in each seance. This method allows only to improve the patient condition but cannot completely restore functions of the peripheral nerves innervating different organs and systems of the human body, because the apparatus massage (including vibromassage, hydromassage, vacuum massage) does not ensure to differentiate the treatment finely. Thus this method does not allow to mobilize the trophic function of peripheral nerves, to improve metabolism processes in ischemic nervous trunks, does not decrease the hypertension of peripheral nerves. This method does not also allow to normalize the metabolism of different organs and to treat diseases caused by lesions of corresponding peripheral nerves.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The basis of the present invention is the task of providing a method for recovering the peripheral nerve functions in which method, through mobilizing the trophic function of peripheral nerves, improving the metabolism processes of ischemic nerve trunks, and decreasing the high tension of peripheral nerves, the achievement is reached for more complete recovering functions of peripheral nerves innervating different organs and systems of the human body, which permits to normalize the metabolism of various organs and to treat the diseases caused by lesions of corresponding peripheral nerves.
This task is solved by that in the method for recovering the peripheral nerve functions, in which method a massage is performed along with the nerve, in accordance with the present invention, the massage is performed by hand therewith palpating at least one peripheral nerve to determine its condition, and then at least once pressing deep into the soft tissues with a finger, and moving the finger along the peripheral nerve to the periphery.
It is expedient the finger to be moved along the peripheral nerve by intermittent oscillatory motions.
It is also expedient an additional palpation to be made before moving the finger along the peripheral nerve.
It is desirable, if a compacted intumescence is detected in the peripheral nerve in the course of its palpation, to knead and smooth said compacted intumescence after said palpation.
It is also desirable the peripheral nerve, after palpating it by a finger of one hand, to be fixed in the given section, the pressure deep into soft tissues and movement along the peripheral nerve to the periphery being performed with a finger of the other hand.
It is possible, after palpating the peripheral nerve, to strike easily on the spine processes of the vertebrae and in paravertebral areas.
It is also possible, after palpating the peripheral nerve, to shift the sacrum-coccygeal junction until releasing the nerve compression in this area.
It is expedient, after palpating at least two peripheral nerves, to inspect the states of vitally important organs, then to press deep into soft tissues by a finger and to move the finger first along the peripheral nerve recovering the innervation of a vitally important organ.
This method for recovering the peripheral nerve functions allows to make an early diagnosis of the pathology being formed, and to treat a disease at the stage of its beginning. This invention allows to improve the blood circulation and metabolism in organs of the human body and in the course of a complex treatment using medicaments, since their most effective influence is reached. This invention also allows, reducing the increased tension of peripheral nerves, to achieve the more complete recovery of functions of peripheral nerves innervating different organs and systems of the human body, which allows, in tum, to normalize the metabolism of different organs and to treat the diseases caused by lesions of c
Zhukova Elena Jurievna
Zhukova Olga Valentinovna
Zhukova Svetlana Jurievna
Isabella David J.
Notaro & Michalos P.C.
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