The influence of abdominal decompression on microhemodynamics in the patients presenting with vertebral osteochondrosis
The patients presenting with the manifestations of reflectory syndromes associated with lumbar osteochondrosis were examined for the determination of the velocity and volumetric characteristics of the blood flow in the vessels of the microcirculatory system on the fingernail beds of the first digits of both the upper and lower extremities following a course of abdominal decompression. The hemodynamic events at these sites were studied by means of transcutaneous ultrasound dopplerography (USD) in the minimally invasivemode with the use of a “Minimax-Doppler-K” computer-controlled ultrasound device. The results thus obtained before and after the treatment by abdominal decompression with the help of a KAD-01-AKTs “Nadezhda” apparatus were compared. The treatment consisted of 10 procedures. A total of 35 patients at the mean age of 41 ± 12,17 years were available for the examination. It was shown that the treatment resulted in the improvement of microcirculation at all the sites where it was measured. The results of the study give evidence of the active influence of abdominal decompression on the blood flow velocity in the microcirculation system and of the reflectory activation of microcirculation in the regions that are not directly affected by the pathogenic factor.