Reflex therapy
General medical indications for use of reflex therapy
Diseases (syndromes) of the nervous system and sensory organs:
- Diseases of the autonomic nervous system, idiopathic peripheral vegetative neuropathy (symptoganlionitis etc.)
- Atypical facial pain .
- Diseases of the facial and trigeminal nerves, diseases of other cranial nerves .
- Diseases of nervous roots and plexuses, phantom limb syndrome.
- Mononeuritis of the extremities and multiple neuritis, neuropathies .
- Migraine .
Mental disorders:
- Neurotic disorders: anxiety neurosis, neurotic phobias, hysteric neurosis, obsessional neurosis, neurotic depression, neurasthenia, hypochondriac neurosis, neurotic headaches
- Frigidity and impotence
- Chronic alcoholism, toxicomania, tobacco smoking
- Impairment of physiologic functions of psychogenic etiology (psychogenic torticollis etc.)
- Tics, enuresis
Diseases of the eye and its appendages
- Chronic conjunctivitis, (allergic) blepharoconjunctivitis and blepharitis
- Refraction and accommodation disorders (moderately pronounced)
- Optic neuritis (with moderately diminished vision)
- Diseases (syndromes) of the ear and the mastoid !!!
- Meniere disease Tinnitus, diseases of the acoustical nerve, otlagia
Diseases of the Circulatory System
- Essential hypertension, primary hypertension (stages I and II)
- Chronic coronary heart diseases (without pronounced changes in ECG)
- Atherosclerosis (early stages)
- Raynaud’s syndrome (disease)
- Varicose vein disease, trophic ulcers
- Hemorrhoids (external and internal)
- Hypotension
Diseases of the endocrine system, metabolism disorders:
- Thyroxicosis (moderately pronounced)
- Ovarian and testicular dysfunction (moderately pronounced)
Diseases of Respiratory Organs:
- Chronic rhinitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, allergic rhinitis, chronic laryngotracheitis
- Chronic bronchitis, asthma
Diseases (syndromes) of the digestive organs:
- Chronic gingivitis, parodontosis, stomatitis, glossodynia, glossalgia
- Gastroduodenal ulcer
- Gastritis and duodenitis, gastroenteritis and colitis of non-infectious etiology
- Dyspepsia and other functional gastric disorders
- Constipation
- Chronic noncalculous cholecystitis, biliary dyskinesia
Diseases (syndromes) of the urogenital system:
- Chronic cystitis, cystalgia
- Vaginitis and vulvitis, cervicitis and endocervitis
- Menstrual cycle disorder, uterine bleedings, climacteric syndrome
Delivery and postpartum period:
- Regulation of labor and labor pain relief
- Lactation disorders
Diseases (syndromes) of the skin and subcutaneous fatty tissue:
- Seborrheic dermatitis, eczema, neurodermitis
- Psoriasis
- Itching and related conditions
- Urticaria, angioneurotic edema
Diseases (syndromes) of the musculoskeletal systems and connective tissue:
- Rheumatoid arthritis (with I-II degree of joint function damage)
- Traumatic arthropathy, chronic posttraumatic arthrpathy
- Deforming osteoarthrosis and related disorders
- Allergic arthritis
Relative indications
- Thyrotoxicosis with or without goiter
- Diabetes mellitus
- Obesity
- Hypothalamic syndromes without pronounced neuroendocrine and metabolic disorders
- Gout
- Encephalitis, myelitis, encephalomyelitis, consequences of acute poliomyelitis
- Progressive muscular dystonia
- Paralysis agitans (Parkinson’s disease)
- Multiple sclerosis
- Infantile cerebral paralysis
- Epilepsy
- Syringomyelia
- Peripheral retinal degenerations, focal retinochoroiditis, acute and subacute iridocyclitis, vascular disorders of the iris and ciliary body
- Glaucoma (initial form, pain syndrome)
- Otosclerosis
- Unspecified paroxysmal tachycardia
- Transient cerebral ischemia, long-term effects of cerebrovascular disease (with moderate function disorders)
- Pain syndromes in diseases of the gallbladder and biliary ducts
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Pain syndromes in organic urogenital diseases
Contraindications
- Benign and malignant neoplasms of any localization
- Diseases of blood and hematopoietic organs; hereditary hemolytic anemia, blood coagulation disorders, purpura and other hemorrhagic conditions
- Pregnancy
- Acute infectious diseases and fever conditions of unclear etiology
- Chronic infectious diseases in exacerbation stage (tuberculosis etc.)
- Decompensated diseases of the heart, lungs and other internal organs
- Pneumosclerosis with predisposition to pulmonary bleeding
- Myocardial infarction
- Active rheumatism
- Venous thromboses and embolism in acute period
- Severe cachexia
- Physical overstrain
- Congelation and inflammatory processes of the auricle
- Acute inflammatory processes in the musculoskeletal system
- Congenital malformations of CNS Infectious hepatitis
Doctors
General practitioner
Olga
Berezhko
Experience 38 year
Board Certified General Practitioner (Highest Category), member of the Russian Scientific Medical Society of Internal Medicine