Adaptable manual therapy method in personalizing rehabilitation treatment for patients with degenerative-dystrophic spinal diseases

Manual therapy in the rehabilitation of patients with degenerative-dystrophic spinal diseases is one of the most effective methods, allowing for rapid restoration of patient activity through non-surgical means. To develop a manual therapy method applicable for the rehabilitation treatment of most patients with degenerative-dystrophic spinal diseases, accounting for various clinical and morphological manifestations of the disease without risk of post-manipulation complications. Based on the analysis of the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal, vertebral, and extravertebral systems, a proprioceptive neuromuscular manual therapy method was developed. This method enables rehabilitation of most of these patients across different clinical and morphological presentations without post-manipulation complications. The method was applied in the rehabilitation of patients with vertebrogenic pain, musculo-tonic, tunnel, and irritative syndromes. The results demonstrate significant improvement in both clinical and subjective outcomes in degenerative dystrophic spine diseases patients using the developed proprioceptive neuromuscular manual therapy method. The proposed proprioceptive neuromuscular manual therapy method has shown high effectiveness and can be used in the rehabilitation of patients with degenerative-dystrophic spinal diseases across different clinical and morphological manifestations without a high risk of post-manipulation complications.

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