Acupuncture in the treatment of vegetative-vascular disorders in osteochondrosis of the cervical spineJi Yubo
AUTHORS : Kachan A.T. | Polyakova L.A. | Zhulev N.M.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Department of Neurology named after S.N. Davidenkov, St. Petersburg MAPO, St. Petersburg
YEAR : 2011
The authors studied the influence of acupuncture (reflextherapy) on the blood supply of the brain against the background of vegetative-vascular disorders in 45 patients with osteochondrosis of the cervical spine. Patients suffered from syndrome of vertebrobasilar insufficiency, cervi-cobrachialgia, cervico-cephalgia. Survey methods: Doppler ultrasound and duplex scanning of blood vessels of head and neck, magnetic resonance tomography of the head and neck using vascular opacification. All patients underwent 10 sessions of corporal acupuncture. Consequently, the blood flow improved in the vertebral arteries and the vertebrobasilar and venous flow in the periorbital and basal age. Also, the clinical symptoms decreased.
