The methods used in Institute "Kundawell"

Chiropractic


Definition
Manual therapy – treatment mode for injuries and diseases of the spinal column with help of a variety manipulations with the spine and back muscles in order to return the spine to its normal, healthy state.

History
Healers used the manual therapy for a long time. In the multivolume medical work of Qing era "Golden Mirror of Medicine", in chapter "The requirements to correct bones" said: "... firstly cold gets into the spine, after the spine is injured, the stagnation forms in it, if the muscles at the back became more convex, it indicates displacement of vertebrae, and should first warm up and soften the tendons and muscles, and then straighten the vertebrae". This book is clearly describes the reasons, the clinical manifestations and treatment modes of traumatic lesions of the spine. Currently the scope of chiropractic application expanded. It is effectively used in orthopedic diseases of the cervical and lumbar spine, is widely used in the treatment of diseases caused by damage to the spine.

Medicinal properties
Manual therapy uses special techniques of manipulation, which helps to adjust degenerative changes and deformations of cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, pelvis joints, intervertebral discs, spinal soft tissues (muscles, ligaments, fascia, nerves, blood vessels, etc. ), to restore the balance in the arrangement of the vertebrae, to eliminate the pathological changes of acute and chronic injuries of the spine, to treat secondary diseases associated with a pathological condition of spine.

Features
1. The concept of balance. Straightening the spine is held after an precise diagnosis. During the procedure, is carried out the adjustment of musculoskeletal spine, restoring of relative stability and mechanical balance.

2. The concept of integrity. Chiropractic treats not only vertebral displacement, eliminates the associated symptoms, but also, with different degrees of efficiency, soften the symptoms of diseases caused by these shifts.

3. Methods of manipulation. In manual therapy the hand manipulations are performed instantly. With their help, the spine straightens, pressure is removed from the nerve, recovers balanced position of the vertebrae.

4. Painless, efficient, safe and reliable, is a natural therapy without side effects.

Indications for use
1. Traumatic spinal lesions, such as cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc disease, also is effective in some traumatic paraplegia.

2. During the recovery and treatment of hypertension, arrhythmia, cerebral post-traumatic syndrome, visual impairment, blindness, deafness and other diseases caused by diseases of the spine, can also have an effect.

3. In case of cervical spondylosis, posttraumatic vertigo, traumatic brain injury, pain and numbness in the eyes, ears, shoulders, arms -appropriate manipulations are carried out in the cervical spine.

4. In case of arrhythmia, pain in the epigastric area, intercostal neuralgia, diarrhea, onset of symptoms in the chest and abdomen - manipulations are carried out in the thoracic spine.

5. For low back pain, lower limbs, disorders of pelvic organs, manipulations are carried out in the lumbar spine.