Principles of rehabilitation treatment. Medical rehabilitation

The main method of restoring motor function after a stroke is therapeutic exercises. Doctors especially recommend general strengthening and breathing exercises. The basic rule of physical activity is gradual increase loads Exercise pushes nerve cells to “change their specialization” and take over the functions of cells killed during a stroke. It is thanks to this ability that motor and speech disorders after a stroke are better amenable to rehabilitation treatment in the first months. After the first stroke, for the sake of preserving oneself, a person is obliged to monitor blood pressure twice a day and always remember that it should not exceed the “control figures” - 140/90 mm Hg. Art. After the first two months, it is advisable to monitor your blood pressure 2-3 times a week. If unfavorable symptoms appear: nausea, headache, sudden unexplained weakness and pain in the heart area, it is necessary to urgently call ambulance. This is especially important during the first year after discharge from the hospital.

It is good to take aspirin prophylactically, but not in tablets, but in quarters or less of a tablet (preferably soluble). In addition to aspirin, medications such as Cavinton, Alisat, Trental, and Sermion prevent the formation of blood clots. Talk to your doctor about a specific drug.

During the first year after discharge from the hospital, you must stop drinking alcohol, smoking, drinking coffee, strong tea and other tonic drinks and take medications that ensure stable blood pressure and calm the nervous system, such as Corvalol or motherwort drops.

And never, under any circumstances, lose optimism! Don't focus on your illness. Only personal physical activity and the desire to get back on your feet are the main conditions for the success of all rehabilitation measures. Therefore, try to be as active as possible and do everything in your power yourself.

Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy exercises in stroke therapy are even more important to restore damaged functions than in myocardial infarction. For this case, many techniques have also been developed, and here, too, strict personification of motor activity complexes is necessary for each specific patient.

A set of exercises for post-stroke patients according to A. N. Belova

Exercise 1. Starting position (hereinafter referred to as i.p.) - sitting on a chair, arms freely lowered, legs bent at the knee joints at an angle of 90°. On inhalation - bringing the shoulder blades together, on exhalation - return to i. p. Repeat 4-6 times.

Features of execution. Breathing with an extended exhalation.

Exercise 2. I.p. the same. Flexion and extension of the healthy arm at the elbow joint. Repeat 5-7 times.

Exercise 3. I.p. the same. Flexion and extension of the healthy leg at the knee joint. Repeat 5-7 times.

Features of execution. It is necessary to hold the injured limb.

Exercise 4. I. p. - sitting. The arms are freely lowered. The body is slightly tilted forward. Swaying freely lowered arms. Perform for 1 minute.

Features of execution. Achieve maximum possible relaxation of the muscles of the belt and arms.

Exercise 5. I. p. - sitting on a chair, arms freely lowered, legs bent at the knee joints at an angle of 90°. Flexion of the healthy arm at the shoulder joint with a return to i. n. Repeat 6-8 times.

Features of execution. Active (volitional effort) or passive (with the help of a methodologist or assistant) suppression of involuntary movements in the diseased limb. The pace is average, movements are of maximum amplitude.

Exercise 6. I. p. - sitting. The healthy arm is down. The methodologist’s palm holds the palm of the patient’s affected hand, with the other hand the methodologist fixes the elbow, fingers and hand in a position with the first finger abducted. The essence of the exercise: passive flexion in the shoulder joint of the paretic arm, return to i. n. Repeat 10–12 times.

Exercise 7. I. p. - sitting on a chair. The arms are freely lowered. The legs are bent at the knee joints at an angle of 90°. The essence of the exercise: abduction and adduction of the healthy arm in the shoulder joint. Repeat 6–8 times.

Exercise 8. I. p. - sitting. The healthy arm is down. The methodologist's palm holds the palm of the patient's sore hand, with the other hand the assistant fixes the elbow, fingers and hands in a position with the first finger abducted. The essence of the exercise: passive abduction and adduction in the shoulder joint. Repeat 10–12 times.

Features of execution. Movements are performed with the patient’s straightened arm to the maximum possible amplitude; pain is not allowed.

Exercise 9. I. p. - sitting on a chair. The arms are freely lowered. The legs are bent at the knee joints at an angle of 90°. The essence of the exercise: movement of the hand and elbow joint like twisting a screwdriver. Repeat 8-10 times.

Features of execution. Avoid involuntary movements.

Exercise 10. I. p. - sitting. The healthy arm is down. The methodologist's palm holds the patient's palm, with the other hand the assistant fixes the elbow, fingers and hand in an extended position with the first finger abducted. The essence of the exercise: rotation of the sore arm in the shoulder joint. Repeat 10–12 times.

Features of execution. Movements are performed with the patient’s straightened arm to the maximum possible amplitude; do not allow pain to occur.

Exercise 11. I. p. - sitting. The arms are freely lowered. The body is slightly tilted forward. The essence of the exercise: swinging freely lowered arms. Perform for 1 minute.

Features of execution. Achieve maximum relaxation of the muscles of the shoulder girdle and arms.

Exercise 12. I. p. - sitting on a chair. The arms are freely lowered. The legs are bent at the knee joints at an angle of 90°. The essence of the exercise: active flexion and extension of the healthy arm. Repeat 6–8 times.

Features of execution. Involuntary movements of the affected arm should not be allowed.

Exercise 13. I. p. - sitting. The healthy arm is down. The assistant holds the palm of the affected arm with one hand and fixes the shoulder with the other. The fingers and hand of the affected hand are in an extended position. The essence of the exercise: passive flexion and extension at the elbow joint. Repeat 10–12 times.

Exercise 14. I. p. - sitting on a chair. The arms are freely lowered. The legs are bent at the knee joints at an angle of 90°. The essence of the exercise: active flexion and extension in the wrist joint of the healthy hand. Repeat 6–8 times.

Exercise 15. I. p. - sitting. The healthy arm is down. The methodologist fixes the palm with straightened fingers and the forearm of the sore hand. The essence of the exercise: passive flexion and extension in the wrist joint of the affected hand. Repeat 10–12 times.

Features of execution. Avoid pain.

Exercise 16. I. p. - sitting on a chair. The arms are freely lowered. The legs are bent at the knee joints at an angle of 90°. The essence of the exercise: active flexion and extension of the fingers of the healthy hand. Repeat 15–20 times.

Features of execution. Avoid involuntary movements of the affected arm.

Exercise 17. I. p. - sitting at the table. The forearm of the affected arm lies on the table in the middle position. The essence of the exercise: passive flexion and extension in all joints of the fingers of the hand from the index to the little finger. Repeat 15–20 times.

Features of execution. Perform movements separately in each joint and together in four fingers.

Exercise 18. I.p. the same. Passive flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, circular movements thumb sore hand. Repeat 15- 20 once.

Exercise 19. I. p. - sitting. The arms are freely lowered. The body is slightly tilted forward. The essence of the exercise: swinging your freely lowered arms for 30–60 seconds.

Exercise 20. I. p. - sitting on a chair. The arms are freely lowered. The legs are bent at the knee joints at an angle of 90°. Abduction-adduction of the healthy arm in the shoulder joint. Repeat 6–8 times.

Features of execution. Avoid involuntary movements of the affected arm.

Exercise 21. I. p. - sitting at the table. The methodologist fixes the elbow joint, forearm and hand with extended fingers of the affected hand on a large ball lying on the table. The essence of the exercise: abduction of the sore arm in the shoulder joint with the help of an assistant (by “rolling” the ball on the table). Repeat 6–8 times.

Features of execution. The pace is slow, the movements are of the maximum possible amplitude, the return to the starting position is carried out passively.

Exercise 22. I. p. - sitting on a chair. The arms are freely lowered. The legs are bent at the knee joints at an angle of 90°. The essence of the exercise: active flexion and extension at the elbow joint of the healthy arm. Repeat 6–8 times.

Features of execution. Avoid involuntary movements of the affected arm.

Exercise 23. I. p. - sitting at the table. The methodologist fixes the forearm and extended hand of the sore arm with one hand on the ball on the table, and with the other hand - the shoulder of the sore arm. The essence of the exercise: active extension of the affected arm in the elbow joint with the help of a methodologist (rolling the ball on the table). Repeat 6–8 times.

Features of execution. The pace is slow, movements are as wide as possible, returning to i. p. is carried out passively.

Exercise 24. I. p. - sitting at the table. An assistant or patient, using a healthy hand, fixes the forearm and extended hand of the affected arm on the roller track. The essence of the exercise: “rolling” the hand and forearm along a roller track. Repeat 6–8 times.

Features of execution. The pace is slow, return to the starting position with the help of an assistant or a healthy hand.

Exercise 25. I. p. - sitting. The arms are freely lowered. The body is slightly tilted forward. The essence of the exercise: rocking, extension of the healthy leg at the knee joint. Perform for 30 seconds - 1 minute.

Features of execution. Achieve maximum relaxation of the arm muscles.

Exercise 26. I. p. - sitting, leaning his back on the back of a chair. There is a splint on the sore arm. Legs bent at an angle of 120°, feet on the floor. The essence of the exercise: flexion and extension of the healthy leg at the knee joint. Repeat 6–8 times.

Features of execution. Avoid involuntary movements of the affected arm.

Exercise 27. I. p. - the same. Active flexion and extension of the affected leg at the knee joint. Repeat 6–8 times.

Features of execution. At the maximum possible amplitude, the tempo is slow.

Exercise 28. I. p. - sitting, hands behind your back, legs shoulder-width apart, knees bent at right angles. Connect your knees, return to i. n. Repeat 8-10 times.

Features of execution. Monitor the participation of the affected leg in movement.

Exercise 29. I. p. - sitting. Leaning your back against the back of a chair. Legs are bent at an angle of 120°. “Rolling” one foot at a time along the roller track. Repeat 6-8 times for each leg.

Exercise 30. I. p. - sitting, leaning his back against the back of a chair. There is a splint on the sore arm. Legs bent at an angle of 120°, feet on the floor. The essence of the exercise: active alternate flexion and extension at the ankle joints. Repeat 6-8 times for each leg.

Features of execution. According to the maximum possible amplitude; the pace is slow.

Exercise 31. I. p. - standing with support on the back of a chair. Sore arm in a scarf. The essence of the exercise: a) walking in place; b) walking along the trail; c) walking with 360° turns; d) walking while stepping over an obstacle. Perform for 1–2 minutes for each type of walking.

Features of execution. Monitor the “triple” flexion of the affected leg.

Exercise 32. I. p. - sitting on a chair. Hands on knees. Legs are bent at an angle of 90°.

The essence of the exercise: flexion and extension of the healthy arm at the elbow joint. Repeat 8-12 times.

Features of execution. Full breath, medium pace.

Exercise 33. I. p. - see exercise No. 4. The essence of the exercise: shaking freely lowered arms. Perform for 1 minute.

Features of execution. Maximum relaxation of the muscles of the shoulder girdle and arms.

Exercise 34. I. p. - sitting. Hands on knees. Full breath. Repeat 3-4 times. The exhalation is lengthened. Pulse counting, blood pressure measurement.

Note from the author of the complex: exercises No. 1–5 are an introductory part, their duration is 4–6 minutes. Exercises No. 6-31 are the main part, their duration is 15–25 minutes. Exercises No. 32–34 are the final part, their duration is 3–5 minutes.

Complex for post-stroke patients according to V.K. Dobrovolsky

A less lengthy and tiring, but meeting medical requirements, set of group gymnastics exercises for post-stroke patients according to V.K. Dobrovolsky.

Exercise 1. I. p. - sitting, arms bent at the elbow joints. "Walking" while sitting. Perform for 2–3 minutes. The pace is average.

Exercise 2. I. p. - sitting, arms along the body.

Raising your arms up (inhale), lowering them while pulling your knee alternately to your chest (exhale).

Repeat 2-3 times for each leg. Watch your breathing.

Exercise 3. I. p. - sitting, hands to shoulders. Circular movements in shoulder joints. Repeat 10-12 times in each direction. Watch your breathing.

Exercise 4. I. p. - standing, feet shoulder-width apart, arms above. Lower your hands, bend your arms at the shoulder joints, drop your arms along your body, tilt your torso. Repeat 3-4 times.

The muscles of the shoulder girdle should be relaxed as much as possible.

Exercise 5. I. p. - standing. Walking around the hall: at a normal pace, alternating walking at a normal pace (4 steps) with walking on your toes (4 steps). Perform for 3–4 minutes.

Exercise 6. I. p. - walking at a normal pace. Raising your arms up (inhale), lowering your arms (exhale). Repeat 3-4 times.

Exercise 7. I. p. - standing, hands on the belt. Raise your shoulders, lower them, connect your shoulder blades (elbows back), return to i. n. Repeat 8-10 times. Do not hold your breath.

Exercise 8. I. p. - standing, hands on the belt. Elbows back (inhale), bending forward and bringing your shoulders together - exhale. Repeat 4-6 times.

Exercise 9. I. p. - standing, feet shoulder-width apart, arms down. Raise your arms up through your sides (inhale), return to i. n. (exhale). Repeat 4-5 times.

Exercise 10. I. p. - standing, arms bent at the elbows, hands to the shoulders. Retracting the elbows to the sides with the connection of the shoulder blades. Repeat 8-10 times. Do not hold your breath.

Exercise 11. I. p. - standing, hands up. In the starting position, inhale. Drop your hands, bend your arms at the elbow joints, lower your arms along your body as you exhale. Repeat 4-6 times.

Exercise 12. I. p. - standing, feet together, legs slightly bent at the knee joints, one arm extended forward, the other drawn back.

Springing movements with straightening the legs at the knee joints and swinging movements of the arms. Perform for 1-10 minutes. Do not hold your breath.

Exercise 13. I. p. - standing, feet shoulder-width apart, arms down.

Move your arms to the sides with your palms up (inhale), return to i. n. (exhale). Repeat 3-4 times.

Exercise 14. I. p. - standing, feet shoulder-width apart, gymnastic stick in lowered hands. Alternately squatting on your leg while moving your arms forward with a stick. Repeat 5-6 times on each leg. The pace is average.

Exercise 15. I. p. - standing, holding the stick with an overhand grip in your hands behind your back. Raising your shoulders while raising your arms up. Repeat 8-10 times.

Features of execution. Strive to connect the shoulder blades.

Exercise 16. I. p. - standing, feet shoulder-width apart, arms up. Lower your hands, bend your arms at the elbow joints, drop your arms along your torso, tilt your torso. Relax the muscles of the shoulder girdle as much as possible. Repeat 4-5 times.

Exercise 17. I. p. - standing. Balance exercise. Standing on one line so that the heel of your right foot touches the toe of your left, arms extended forward, fingers apart. Repeat 3-4 times for 15 seconds.

Exercise 18. I. p. - standing. Walking along a line with a normal step, side step, right and left side. Repeat each exercise 2 times.

Exercise 19. I. p. - sitting, hands on knees. Movements eyeballs: up-down, left-right, circular movements. Repeat 5-6 movements.

Exercise 20. I. p. - standing opposite each other at a distance of 2–3 meters. Throwing the ball to each other. Perform for 2–3 minutes. The pace is average.

Exercise 21. I. p. - sitting, hands on knees. Getting up from a chair. Repeat 10 times. Breathing is voluntary.

Exercise 22. I. p. - sitting, arms in front, hands clenched into fists.

Raising your arms to the sides. Repeat 6–8 times. The pace is average. Strive to connect your shoulder blades.

Exercise 23. I. p. - sitting, leaning back in a chair, arms up, legs bent. Drop your hand, bend your arms at the elbow joints, place your arms along your body, head on your chest, eyes closed. Relax the muscles of the shoulder girdle as much as possible. Repeat 4-5 times.

Exercise 24. I. p. - sitting on the edge of a chair, the torso is tilted. Swing movements in the shoulder joints. Repeat 10-15 times with each hand. Complete relaxation of the arms at the end of the movements.

At the beginning and at the end of a physical therapy session, you should measure your blood pressure and check your pulse.

Folk ways to get rid of illness

Brain diseases have plagued humanity for a long time, and it has accumulated a wealth of experience in dealing with them. Alas, it is, of course, impossible to say that herbs can get a patient who has suffered a stroke back on their feet, but in prevention and as an additional treatment they have no equal.

Baths after a stroke

In folk medicine, it is believed that in case of paralysis, medicinal baths play an important healing role. Baths made from rosehip roots, previously chopped into small pieces, are especially popular. For one procedure, it is enough to pour 250 g into 3.5 liters of water and simmer for 40 minutes, then leave for another 20 minutes, strain and pour into the prepared bath. Take it for 20 minutes at a water temperature not exceeding 38 C.

Baths with a decoction of juniper fruits and branches also have a beneficial effect (the decoction is prepared in the same way as from rosehip roots). One type of plant is used for no more than 10 baths, then it is replaced with another. Baths are well combined with compresses and rubbing herbal infusions and extracts into numb parts of the body. For compresses, the same decoction of juniper is suitable, or even better - an alcohol extract from it (a handful of berries and 2 handfuls of chopped branches, pour 0.5 liters of vodka and leave for 2 weeks). In addition to compresses, this extract can be rubbed into the body.

Do rubbing and vodka tincture thyme (10 tablespoons of crushed herb, pour 0.5 liters of vodka, leave for 2 weeks), you can drink 20-30 drops 3-4 times a day.

Head steam bath. Throw 1-2 tbsp into a pan of boiling water. spoons of dill seeds, close the lid and place near the patient’s bed. Then undress him to the waist, cover him with a woolen blanket and remove the lid from the pan. The patient under the blanket should inhale the steam through his nose and mouth for several minutes. After the steam bath, pour cold water over your sweaty body.

Foot steam bath. The patient sits (or lies) on the bed, and his legs are on a chair. Place a pan of boiling water (on a stand) between the bed and the chair on a woolen blanket and open its lid. Cover the patient's legs with a blanket. After the steam bath, pour cold water over them. It is also useful for a paralyzed person to take cold baths or wipe the entire body with a cloth soaked in cold water.

Cold baths. In healing literature, the following suggestion is often found - to give the patient cold baths. In the first week they should be taken daily for no more than 1 minute, in the second week - 2 times (on Monday and Friday), in the third - do the “Spanish cloak” daily, in the fourth - “Spanish cloak” (on Monday and Friday) and so on. - one sitz bath for three minutes.

"Spanish Cloak" To perform all these procedures, the patient needs two assistants, since all actions must be performed quickly. Spread a wool blanket on the bed, soak a linen sheet in cold water with the addition of table vinegar. Wring it well so that it does not drip, and spread it on the bed on top of the blanket with a small margin at the feet. The patient will have to be stripped naked and placed with his back on a soaked sheet, which should start from his armpits. Cover him tightly with a wet sheet, wrap him in the woolen blanket on which he lies, and wrap his neck with a dry scarf or towel. You can throw a couple more warm blankets on top. The patient is asked to lie in this “Spanish cloak” for 1.5 hours. We don’t have any comments on the procedure, decide for yourself.

Honey therapy

Treatment with honey and bee products is indicated for all types of cardiovascular pathology. True, there are contraindications for the use of honey, which must be taken into account in each specific case. This is, first of all, diabetes mellitus, and secondly, intolerance to honey and other bee products, which can manifest itself in the form of urticaria, itching, runny nose, headache, dyspeptic disorders of the stomach and intestines.

In case of stroke, honey is especially useful because it improves blood circulation, increasing blood flow. After all, it should be noted that the number minerals(potassium, calcium salts, sodium, magnesium, iron, sulfur, iodine, chlorine, phosphorus) in honey is almost the same as in human blood. In addition, it contains biogenic stimulants - substances that can raise the general vitality and tone of cardio-vascular system, which is especially important in the prevention and elimination of the consequences of stroke. As a therapeutic and prophylactic agent, the amount of honey for an adult is approximately 60-100 g per day, which is divided into several doses. In order for honey to be better absorbed, it should be taken no earlier than an hour and a half before meals or 2-3 hours after. The effect of honey is enhanced when taken with warm water, tea or milk.

The most common and effective is to take two spoons of honey every time before meals for two (but not more) months.

The so-called “Indian mixture” also works well, consisting of ground walnuts (vitamin B), dried apricots (potassium and magnesium), prunes (vitamin B), grated lemon zest (vitamin C), raisins and honey in free proportions. It is taken after meals for a month. Then you can take a break and resume prevention a month later.

Adding honey to carrot and other mixed juices also gives excellent results. Here are a few recipes.

Take fresh onions, minced in a meat grinder and mix them with honey in a 1:1 ratio. Take 1 tbsp. spoon 3-4 times a day.

Eat 100 g of walnuts daily, starting with three per day, eating them with 1 teaspoon of honey. The course of treatment is one and a half months.

Take 1 kg of cranberries, 200 g of garlic and 100 g of honey. Grind everything in a meat grinder and leave for 3 days. Take 1 dess. spoon 2 times a day before meals.

Take 1 liter of honey, 10 lemons and 5 heads of garlic. Squeeze lemon juice into honey and add grated garlic. Mix everything and leave for a week. Take 1 teaspoon once a day, eat slowly, longer than one minute.

Take 20 g of ginseng root and 0.5 liters of honey. Mix the powder with honey and leave for a week, stirring frequently. Take 3 times a day, 1/4 teaspoon.

Grate the orange along with the zest and mix with 200 g of honey. Take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day.

Take a glass of horseradish, carrot, lemon juice and mix with a glass of honey. Leave for two days. Take 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day an hour before meals or 2 hours after meals. The course of treatment is no longer than 2 months, then you should take a break.

In addition to honey, other beekeeping products are widely used in the treatment and prevention of stroke, as well as myocardial infarction. Only the recipes used to prepare the medicines look a little different.

Pollen. Nowadays you can find ready-made pollen preparations in pharmacies. The following recipes are known in folk medicine: pollen and natural honey in a ratio of 1: 1 or 1: 2, mix and take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day before meals. The course of treatment is one and a half to two months; pollen and honey in equal proportions and take 1 dess. spoon per day, dissolving in the mouth half an hour before meals. After this, you should not drink liquids for 15–20 minutes.

Royal jelly. Pharmacies also sell ready-made medications. Two options are usually recommended royal jelly: Place 10 mg of royal jelly under the tongue 3-4 times a day until completely absorbed. The course of treatment is 15–30 days. Or 20 mg of royal jelly - under the tongue 3 times a day. The course of treatment is 10 days, then repeat it again after a week.

Bee venom. It has too many restrictions: bee venom is contraindicated for diseases of the kidneys, liver, pancreas, diabetes, tumors, tuberculosis, heart failure, infectious diseases, exhaustion and individual intolerance. In addition, when treating with bee venom, you should not drink alcohol, take medicine after water procedures and long walks, and you should avoid eating large meals. In this case, you need to adhere to a plant-dairy diet.

Bee bread. Its composition is very complex, so it can only be bought at a pharmacy in the form of a dietary supplement. Bee bread is used for all forms of stroke, as it ideally restores cerebral circulation. The drug is taken before meals and dissolves in the mouth: the effect of bee products is more successful under the influence of saliva - this applies to people with high blood pressure. It is better for people with normal and low blood pressure to take bee bread after meals, without drinking anything. The role of liquid should be performed by saliva. This method concerns the prevention of stroke. Patients who have already had it are prescribed a different dosage regimen: a dose on the tip of a teaspoon (1 g) 5 times a day under the tongue.

Urine therapy

The possibility of using the method is controversial, but according to those who have used it, it helps. It is up to you to decide whether to use this method to treat your ailments or not. There is a nuance - urine (urine) is needed only from healthy relatives, and collected from 3 to 20 hours. It is believed that the best urine is the one taken from 3 to 4 am. The patient himself should not drink alcohol or smoke during urine therapy.

Having collected the maximum amount of urine, begin to evaporate it, while lowering any gold item into a pan with urine (to charge the urine with bioenergy). Before heating, use a ruler to measure how much liquid is in the pan. It must be evaporated until the level decreases in volume to one quarter of the original. Cool. Before making compresses with urine, the patient must take a bath (water temperature no higher than 38 C). This should be done once a day before lunch. After lunch, apply a compress of evaporated urine to the paralyzed part of the body, put the patient to bed and wrap it well.

A course of urine therapy is recommended before you decide to use herbal medicine. Every day you can drink an infusion, which includes the herb St. John's wort, peppermint leaves, hop fruits and valerian root, taken in equal parts (15 g of each medicinal plant). Mix the collection well, take 1 tbsp. spoon per 1 cup of boiling water, heat in a water bath for 15 minutes, strain after 45 minutes. Bring the volume to 200 ml and drink this infusion in several doses until the end of the day.

In such cases, an infusion of chamomile flowers (10 g), valerian root (15 g) and caraway fruits (25 g) is also very useful: 1 tbsp. spoon of the mixture per 1 cup of boiling water. Drink 1/2 glass in the morning and evening after meals. Instead of tea, the patient should drink a decoction of lemon balm flowers and leaves.

For nervous calm and good night a paralyzed person needs to take warm baths with a decoction of oak bark or pine needles. He must do physical therapy 3-4 times a day, roll a rolling pin with his feet while sitting on the bed, roll tennis balls in his hands, etc., massage his arms and legs daily, and also pour cold water on his legs from the knees and below. for 1 minute, avoid great mental stress, smile more often.

How to lower cholesterol levels

Cholesterol in the blood is found in the form of complex compounds with special transporter proteins, the so-called apolipoproteins. High molecular weight lipoproteins are highly soluble and do not tend to precipitate cholesterol and thereby protect blood vessels from atherosclerotic changes. Low molecular weight lipoproteins, on the contrary, are poorly soluble and tend to precipitate cholesterol crystals and form atherosclerotic plaques in blood vessels, thereby increasing the risk of heart attack or ischemic stroke, as well as other cardiovascular complications. Therefore, maintaining normal cholesterol is a very important factor in health. It is quite possible to do this if you eat rationally and take medicines prepared according to folk recipes.

You can prevent the development of atherosclerosis by regularly taking radish juice with honey (to taste). To prevent the disease, you should also eat apples regularly. The pectin contained in them is able to remove everything unnecessary from the body, including excess cholesterol. It is useful to drink 20 g of vegetable oil or pomegranate juice per day or eat 100 g of low-fat cottage cheese.

Drink dandelion juice for 2-3 months, gradually increasing the daily dose from 1-2 tbsp. spoons to one glass. Then drink juice, gradually reducing the rate, and return to the original level. It is advisable to conduct two courses of cholesterol cleansing from the blood per year, in spring and autumn.

Drink 1–1.5 glasses of red beet juice 2 times a day. At first, drink it together with carrot juice, gradually moving on to drinking only beetroot juice.

Wild raspberry juice and fruits are consumed to lower cholesterol and for atherosclerosis on an empty stomach in the morning and 30 minutes before meals 2-3 times a day. Raspberry juice thins the blood.

Nettle leaves reduce cholesterol levels in the blood. Eat them in the form of salads and drink 1-2 tbsp of fresh juice. spoons 3 times a day 20–30 minutes before meals. You can drink infusions: 1 tbsp. spoon of dry crushed leaves per 1 cup of boiling water.

At diabetes mellitus The following remedy will help cleanse the blood of cholesterol. Take 10 liters of fresh birch sap, add 500 g of crushed rose hips, fresh crushed urban gravilate fruits and crushed wheatgrass rhizomes, pour in 2 cups of hawthorn fruit tincture, rowan berry tincture and birch bud tincture. Tinctures are prepared at the rate of 1 part of the volume of raw materials per 5 parts of vodka. Leave the mixture in a cool, dark place for a month. Take 1/2 cup 4 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

Grapefruit regulates blood cholesterol levels very well. To do this, it is enough to drink the juice of two grapefruits or eat two grapefruits during the day.

The following foods and medications will also help you fight high cholesterol levels in your blood.

Tea, or rather the tannin it contains, helps control cholesterol levels. People who habitually drink tea while eating a diet high in cholesterol have surprisingly normal levels of cholesterol in their blood. Although in theory this cannot be, it is a scientifically proven fact.

Spirulina- a type of seaweed rich in proteins, which is now sold as a dietary supplement (biological active additives), reduces total cholesterol and its components. A similar effect was revealed as a result of medical experiments on Japanese volunteers who had high levels of cholesterol in their blood. Each time after a meal they took 7 tablets of the drug (200 mg in total).

Rice and rice bran. Rice fiber may be just as effective as its Russian cousin, oats. Preliminary studies have shown that rice bran reduces cholesterol levels by more than 25%.

Please note that we are talking about brown rice: it is whole rice, when it is processed, only the husk is separated. The bran shell, which gives the grains a brown tint, remains, and the germ layer is also preserved. It is in them that all the natural nutrients that nature has generously endowed with rice are concentrated - complex carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals.

The complex carbohydrates of brown rice, when processed, replenish the body's need for sugar. Together with calcium and magnesium, with a small amount of sodium and the complete absence of fat, they have a positive effect on blood pressure. The substance gamma-oryzanol contained in rice grains reduces cholesterol levels in the blood and promotes normal functioning. coronary vessels. The eight essential amino acids that make up this protein maintain muscle tone, maintain their elasticity and strength. Brown rice does not contain gluten - vegetable protein, which can cause food allergies. Therefore, it is indicated for those who are prone to allergic reactions. B vitamins support the functioning of the nervous system and the body’s energy balance.

Fiber and starch contained in rice normalize the functioning of the stomach and intestines and prevent the development of inflammatory processes in them.

White polished rice significantly loses its beneficial qualities during processing. And even the enrichment of it with nutrients carried out at the enterprise will not give it the opportunity to compare with its natural counterpart.

Barley. Long renowned for its exceptional health benefits, the fiber-rich grain has the same high cholesterol-lowering potential as oats. According to the results of studies, eating barley helped reduce blood cholesterol levels by 40%.

Soy. Natural soy products can be recommended for the following diseases:

Atherosclerosis;

Hypertonic disease;

Cardiac ischemia;

Rehabilitation period after myocardial infarction;

Diabetes;

Obesity.

Let's talk a little more about this food product, undeservedly ignored in our country.

Soy is 40% protein, 20% carbohydrates and fat, 10% water, and also contains fiber. Its unique complete proteins are practically not inferior in nutritional value and nutritional value proteins of animal origin. A combination of biologically active components such as lecithin and choline, vitamins B, D and E, polyunsaturated fatty acid Omega-3 and omega-6, macro- and microelements and a number of other substances make it truly indispensable when switching to a vegetarian diet. In addition, soy does not contain cholesterol and lactose, which is also important for people suffering from excess weight and diabetes. Soy and soy products are used as ingredients or complete breast milk substitutes and included in other specialized infant foods.

Due to its qualities, soybean is widely used as a component of special and dietary nutrition. People suffering from food allergies to animal proteins (cow's milk intolerance), cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, as well as those seeking to prevent these ailments, should pay attention to Special attention for this truly wonderful product.

Particularly valuable is the presence of vitamins B, D and E, which fight the aging of the body, iron, calcium, potassium, phosphorus and unique complex other important biologically active natural ingredients. Regular consumption of these foods will help you regain your strength if you have iron deficiency anemia.

Soy contains lecithin - a phospholipid of a special structure, which takes part in the metabolism of fats and cholesterol in the body, reduces the accumulation of fats in the liver and promotes their combustion, suppresses the synthesis of cholesterol, regulates the proper metabolism and absorption of fats, has choleretic effect. Thanks to these properties, doctors prescribe a soy-containing diet as one of the measures for losing weight and reducing blood cholesterol in atherosclerosis. Daily consumption 20–25 g of soy protein provides an average reduction of 10–12% in serum cholesterol levels. In turn, this reduces the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases by about 30%.

Soy also has detoxifying properties: it binds and removes radionuclides and ions from the body. heavy metals. If you work in so-called hazardous industries, soy must be present in your diet.

Soy products are a source of dietary fiber. True, its content in soy products is not enough to replenish the necessary daily requirement an adult, but still allows you to reduce its deficiency in the diet and speed up metabolic processes in the body, increase the amount and reduce the time of excretion of feces from the body.

It is possible that all of the above effects are based not so much on the content of individual physiologically active substances in these products, but on the fact that they are presented in a certain combination and ratio, ensuring their complex and diverse health effects on the body.

There are no special restrictions on the consumption of soy products. Contraindications are also unknown, but in exceptional cases individual intolerance is possible. Perhaps the only category of people known today that should limit their consumption of soy foods is pregnant women.

Lemongrass oil. Common flavoring additive oriental dishes, lemongrass oil can reduce cholesterol by more than 10%, delaying its formation from simple fats.

Activated carbon. When ground into powder, this substance, well known for its absorption properties, can “bind” cholesterol and remove it from the body. Three times daily dose 8 g activated carbon within one month it can reduce cholesterol levels by 40–42%.

Herbal medicine for stroke and for the prevention of recurrent strokes

Herbal treatment of a person suffering from a stroke should be carried out after consultation with the attending physician, adhering, if possible, to three basic principles.

The role of medicinal plants in the treatment of each individual patient must be precisely defined. It can be either basic or equivalent traditional treatment, or auxiliary, which must be decided by the attending physician.

When choosing phytotherapeutic agents, it is necessary, if possible, to take into account all the diseases the patient has, and not just one stroke. The whole person needs to be treated, not individual diseases. You cannot do without medical advice here.

Herbal treatment must be long-term and continuous. It is preferable to treat with herbal infusions, gradually alternating them, since the choice is huge. In addition, you need to think carefully about how taking this or that collection will affect the patient. And don't resort to those herbal collections and herbs about which you either know little or have any doubts about them: shelf life (herbs and flowers - 1 year; roots, rhizomes, fruits and seeds - 2–4 years), an unreliable source of obtaining the collection and other.

In the treatment of stroke, special attention is paid to herbs containing glycosides, essential oils and iodine. In general, the list of herbs is quite wide. It includes: spring adonis, mountain arnica, woolly-flowered astragalus, wild rosemary, blood-red hawthorn, lesser periwinkle, capitula officinalis, sandy immortelle, valerian officinalis, three-leaved watch, buckwheat, sweet clover, elecampane, angelica, oregano, St. John's wort, wild strawberry, white willow, calendula officinalis, viburnum common, meadow clover, common pickaxe, horse chestnut, fireweed, angustifolia, meadowsweet, true lavender, broadleaf linden, lily of the valley, burdock, coltsfoot, common cuff , lemon balm, magnolia, maral root, peppermint, mistletoe, panaceria, common wormwood, great plantain, motherwort five-bladed, aromatic rue, mountain ash, corn silk, Japanese sophora, common gooseberry, marsh cudweed, common yarrow, garden dill, fennel, common chicory, greater celandine, garlic, Baikal celandine, sage, cinnamon rosehip, Baikal skullcap.

Take 100 g of ripe hawthorn berries and pass through a meat grinder and pour in 500 ml of alcohol or vodka and leave for 8 days. Then filter and squeeze. Take 3 times a day: alcohol tincture 30–40 drops from 1 tbsp. spoon of water, and vodka - 50–60 drops, also diluted with water. You can also buy hawthorn tincture in a pharmacy, prepared in a factory. Admission conditions are the same.

Take hawthorn flowers, caraway fruits, periwinkle (25 g), rue herb (15 g), valerian root (100 g). Infuse 1 tbsp. spoon with top three hours on a glass cold water, then boil for 5 minutes and stand for another quarter of an hour. Cool, strain. Drink in sips throughout the day.

Take hawthorn flowers, motherwort herb, cudweed herb and chamomile flowers in equal proportions and 1 tbsp. Pour a spoonful of this mixture into a glass of boiling water. Leave until cool. Drink 1-3 glasses a day.

Take one part each of hawthorn flowers, horsetail herb, mistletoe herb and periwinkle leaves and 2 parts of yarrow herb. Infuse 1 tbsp. spoon the mixture in a glass of cold water for 3 hours, then boil for 5 minutes. Leave for a quarter of an hour. Cool, strain. Drink in sips throughout the day.

Take 2 teaspoons of potato flowers and pour a glass of boiling water. Leave until cool, strain. Drink this dose in small sips over 2–3 hours.

Take 2 tbsp. spoons of flowers and pour a glass of boiling water, then heat in a water bath for a quarter of an hour. Then leave for 45 minutes at room temperature. Strain and bring the resulting infusion to its original volume with boiled water. Take 1/3 or 1/4 glass warm 2-3 times a day half an hour before meals.

Take 20 g of dried flowers and pour three glasses of cold water overnight. In the morning, boil for 5 minutes, leave for half an hour and strain. Drink in 5-6 doses throughout the day.

Take 20 g of flowers and pour 100 ml of alcohol. Leave for 2 weeks. Strain and take 20-30 drops 3 times a day. You can also buy a ready-made tincture at the pharmacy.

Take 20 g of crushed motherwort herb and pour 100 ml of alcohol into it. Leave for 2 weeks, strain through double gauze and squeeze. Take 30–40 drops 3 times a day. The pharmacy also sells a ready-made tincture.

Take 15 g of crushed motherwort herb, pour 1 glass of boiling water and leave until cool. Strain and take 1 tbsp. spoon 3-5 times a day an hour before meals.

Take 4 tbsp. spoons of motherwort herb and pour a glass of boiling water, boil in a water bath for a quarter of an hour. Cool at room temperature, strain and squeeze. Take 1/2 cup 2 times a day half an hour before meals.

Take one part each of horsetail grass and buckthorn bark, two parts each of wild rosemary and 3 parts each of motherwort grass. Pour 2 tbsp. spoons of mixture 0.5 liters of boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes, wrap and leave for half an hour, cool and strain. Take a soothing infusion 1/3 cup 3 times a day after meals.

Take motherwort grass, hawthorn flowers, and mistletoe leaves in equal proportions. Pour 4 tbsp. tablespoons of the mixture with a liter of boiling water and leave for 8 hours. Take half a glass 3 times a day an hour after meals.

Take one part each of hawthorn fruit, kidney tea, adonis vernacular, 2 parts each peppermint and cudweed, and 3 parts motherwort herb. Grind. Pour 2 tbsp. spoons of the mixture 0.5 liters of boiling water and boil for 10 minutes. Wrap and leave for half an hour. Cool and strain. Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day after meals.

Due to the fact that Leuzea does not grow in our region, only its pharmaceutical extract is sold. Take 20–30 drops in 1 tbsp. spoon of water 2-3 times a day half an hour before meals. Course 2–3 weeks.

Pour 200 g of dried red rowan berries into 0.5 liters of boiling water and cook for 2 hours over low heat. Cool, strain. Take 1-2 tbsp. spoons once a day.

Take 2 raw tubers or 2 tbsp. spoons of dry crushed tubers and pour 1.2 liters of boiling water. Cook raw - a quarter of an hour, dry - three quarters of an hour. Add sugar. Take 1 liter 2-3 times a week.

Take 5 tbsp. spoons of chopped young (this year) spruce or pine needles, 2 tbsp. spoons of crushed rose hips and onion peels. Pour in 0.7 liters of water, bring to a boil and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Wrap and leave overnight. Strain and drink instead of meals during the day from 0.5 liters to 1 liter per day. The duration of treatment is 4 months.

Peel 2 lemons, chop, pour warm decoction of pine needles and drink a quarter of this amount in one gulp an hour before a meal or an hour after a meal. Do this 4 times. The course of treatment is 2 weeks.

Take 1 tbsp. spoon of chokeberry fruits and pour a glass of boiling water. Leave until cool. Take 1/2 cup 2-3 times a day before meals.

Take 4 tbsp. spoons of crushed black currant leaves, pour a liter of water, boil for 5 minutes and leave for an hour. Cool, strain. Take 3/4 cup 3 times a day.

Take 20 g of yarrow and mistletoe herbs and 50 g of fucus vesiculosa and cystoseira barbata. Infuse 1 tbsp. spoon with the top of the mixture in a glass of cold water for 3 hours. Then boil for 5 minutes and leave for a quarter of an hour. Drink in sips throughout the day.

Take 10 g of rue herb, cinquefoil and 30 g of mistletoe, horsetail and yarrow herbs. Prepare and take as above.

Take 5 g of mountain arnica flowers, 25 g of yarrow herb and 20 g of St. John's wort herb. Prepare and take as above.

Take 10 g of lily of the valley flowers, 20 g of lemon balm and 30 g of cinquefoil. Prepare and take as above.

Take 30 g of rue and creeping thyme herbs and 40 g of lemon balm leaves. Prepare in the same way as above, but drink 1-2 glasses a day.

Take valerian root and mint leaves in equal proportions. Pour 2 tbsp. tablespoons of the mixture 0.5 liters of boiling water and leave for half an hour in a thermos. Strain and drink 1/2 cup 2-3 times a day.

Take equal proportions of linden, hawthorn, calendula flowers, dill fruits, oat straw and 5 g of the powdered mixture, pour a glass of boiling water. Leave in a thermos for 3 hours, strain. Take the maintenance mixture warm, 1/4 cup 3-4 times a day, half an hour before meals.

Take hawthorn and fennel fruits, clover flowers, willow bark and St. John's wort in equal proportions. Pour 1 teaspoon of the mixture with a glass of boiling water, heat in a water bath for 10 minutes, leave in a warm place for an hour, strain. Take 3 times a day, the last time an hour before bedtime.

Take the leaves of the watch, lemon balm, honey and the fruits of rowan. Pour 1 teaspoon of the mixture into a glass of boiling water, boil for 2 minutes, leave in a warm place for 2 hours, strain. Take the entire decoction 3 times, regardless of meals.

Take watch and mint leaves, arnica inflorescences, sweet clover and wormwood herbs, lily of the valley flowers, rose hips in equal proportions. Pour 1 teaspoon of the mixture into 300 ml of boiling water, leave in a thermos for 6 hours, strain. Take 1/4 cup 4-5 times a day.

Take the whole strawberry plant, meadowsweet grass, rue and celandine, hawthorn fruits, leaves of squash and fireweed, and viburnum flowers in equal proportions. Pour 1 teaspoon of the powdered collection into 0.3 liters of boiling water, boil for 2 minutes, leave in a warm place for 2 hours, strain. Take 1/3 cup 2 times a day after meals.

Take 1 tbsp. spoon of clover flowers and pour a glass of boiling water. Leave for half an hour, strain. Drink half a glass 3 times a day.

Boil thoroughly washed potato peelings, strain and take this decoction 1-2 glasses a day for a month.

Take 40 g of garlic, chop and add 10 ml of alcohol. Leave in the dark for a week in a closed container. Then drain and add the same prepared peppermint tincture. Take 10-15 drops 2-3 times a day half an hour before meals with 1 tbsp. cold spoon boiled water.

Take 2 large heads of garlic, peel and crush. Pour in 250 ml of vodka. Leave for 12 days and add rue leaves. Leave for another 3 days. Strain and take 20 drops 3 times a day 15 minutes before meals with 1 tbsp. spoon of water for 3 weeks.

Take 300 g of grated garlic and put it in a jar with the juice of 3 lemons. Tie the top with gauze. Take 1 teaspoon in a glass of cold boiled water. Shake before use.

As another rather unusual, but still time-tested folk recipe for the prevention and treatment of stroke, we present the following.

Take 350 g of butter, lard, honey, sugar, 3 cups of cream, 8 yolks and 100 g of cocoa. Mix everything, whisking lightly, after slightly heating the oil and fat together. Then boil until it reaches a batter-like consistency. Cool and take 1 tbsp 3 times a day. spoon. The mixture can be stored in the refrigerator.

There are other effective recipes alternative treatment stroke.

To reduce cerebral edema, it is recommended to use horse chestnut tincture. To do this, take 10 g of crushed brown chestnut peel (the peel, not the inside), immerse it in a dark glass bottle and pour in 100 ml of regular 40-proof vodka. Leave for 3 days, shaking occasionally, take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day 10 minutes before meals.

In case of cerebral hemorrhage, you need to drink one glass of woodruff root decoction per day, preferably a sip every hour (boil 1 teaspoon of root for 3 minutes in 250 ml of water or wine). This remedy is most effective immediately after hemorrhage.

For paralysis, you can take 6–8 g of dry birch leaves per 0.5 liter of hot water, boil for 15–20 minutes, leave for 4–5 hours, strain, bring the volume to the original volume. Drink 0.5 glasses 3-4 times a day. Infusion of leaves: 8-10 g of dry crushed raw materials (or 5-10 g of fresh) per 1 tbsp. boiling water, leave for 4-5 hours in a thermos, strain. Take 1 tbsp. spoon 4-5 times a day as an antitoxic agent and to increase the body's resistance.

To recover after cerebral hemorrhages. Pour 1 teaspoon of dry or 10 pcs. fresh flowers with 1 cup boiling water, leave for 1-2 hours, strain. Take 1 tbsp. spoon 3-4 times a day after meals.

For recovery after a stroke. In folk medicine, it is believed that this miraculous remedy completely relieves the consequences of a stroke. To prepare it, you need to dilute 2 teaspoons of a 5% iodine solution and 2 heaped teaspoons of potato starch in 100 ml of warm water and brew with boiling water, adding it to 350 g. You will get a blue solution, which is recommended to drink Once a day, 30 minutes after meals - from 1 to 8 teaspoons, preferably with milk or jelly. After 5 days of taking it, it is important to take a five-day break.

With immobilized limbs. Try this composition: mix 5 parts bay leaf, 1 part juniper needles, 10 parts butter, turning into an ointment. Twice a day, the resulting composition is suggested to be rubbed into paralyzed limbs.

To improve the mobility of the limbs, you can try preparing an ointment from 150 g pork fat and 1 tbsp. heaped spoons of regular salt. Hands and feet are first smeared with the prepared composition, and then wrapped in cotton cloth and nylon.

Can help with stroke alcohol tincture golden mustache Take 20 g of leaves or joints, chop, pour in 1/2 cup of 70% ethyl alcohol and leave for three weeks in a dark place, shaking occasionally. Strain the finished tincture and use it during massage and for rubbing the paralyzed part of the body.

Therapy aimed at lowering blood pressure plays a significant role in the treatment of the consequences of stroke and the prevention of recurrent strokes. Along with following a low-cholesterol diet, rest, and moderate physical activity, experts recommend the use of herbal medicine. You can start using herbal decoctions after the patient has been transferred from the intensive care unit to a regular ward. Do not forget to consult with your doctor about the use of herbal medicine as an additional remedy. As a rule, complex herbal preparations are used in the acute period. Let's list some of them.

Hawthorn fruits, valerian rhizomes, sweet clover and meadowsweet herbs, clover flowers, lemon balm and fireweed leaves, rose flower petals - equal parts in total. Take 10 g of powdered collection in 500 ml of water, heat in a water bath in a sealed container for 10 minutes, leave in a warm place for 2 hours, strain and consume 1/4 cup four times a day in between meals.

Hawthorn flowers, watch leaves, sweet clover grass, strawberries - 2 parts each; calendula flowers, peppermint and mint leaves, dill fruits - half as much, 1 part of each. Then take 10 g of the collection, pour 500 ml of boiling water, heat for 10 minutes in a water bath, leave in a warm place for about an hour, strain and take 1/3 cup warm 3 times a day half an hour before meals.

Flowers of hawthorn and clover, leaves of watch and peppermint, rhizome of elecampane, dandelion root, oregano, meadowsweet, marsh cudweed, celandine and sage - equally. Take 10 g of the collection, crushed to a powdery form, in 500 ml of boiling water, boil for about 2 minutes, leave in a warm place for at least 2 hours, then strain. Take 1/3 cup warm after meals.

Herbs of motherwort, astragalus and cudweed, valerian rhizome, wild rosemary shoots, calendula, clover and immortelle flowers, rose flower petals, fennel fruits, white willow bark - equally. Take 10 g of the collection, pour 500 ml of boiling water, leave in a thermos for 6 hours, strain. Take 1/4 cup warm 5 times a day.

Arnica inflorescences, horse chestnut flowers, leaves of cuff, coltsfoot and honeysuckle, motherwort and lavender herbs, fennel fruits, corn silks, take equally. Then pour 10 g of the collection crushed into powder with 500 ml of boiling water, leave in a thermos for at least 4 hours, and be sure to strain. Take 1/4 cup 4 times a day an hour before meals.

Motherwort is used for anxiety and palpitations, nervous diseases and insomnia. The calming effect of this plant is several times stronger than that of valerian. Motherwort is especially recommended for neuroses, hypertension, angina pectoris, stress, and cerebral vascular sclerosis. The plant is used in the form of juice, infusion, decoction.

Motherwort juice: pass the raw material through a meat grinder and squeeze. Application: take 30-40 drops 2-3 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

Instead of juice, you can use a pharmacy tincture, which is much simpler and more convenient.

Motherwort infusion: 1 tbsp. Pour 1 cup of boiling water over a spoon and leave for 2 hours. Drink 2 tbsp. spoons before meals 3-4 times a day and always at night. If you take motherwort for a long time, it is better to do it in the afternoon.

Cranberries increase the elasticity and strength of the walls of blood vessels, improve metabolism, and reduce headaches. Cranberry juice mixed with beet juice (1: 1) is recommended to drink 1/4 cup 3 times a day for vascular spasms, hypertension, atherosclerosis, obesity. Infusion of cranberry berries and leaves: pour 2 teaspoons of berries and leaves with 1 glass of boiling water and leave to infuse in a thermos for 4 hours. Drink 1/2 cup strained 3 times a day for high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, and metabolic disorders.

Strawberries improve heart function and lower blood pressure. Infusion of strawberries: infuse 1/2 cup of berries in 1 cup of boiling water for 2 hours, strain. Drink 1/2 glass 3 times a day for high blood pressure, pain in the heart, and atherosclerosis. Infusion of strawberry rhizomes and herbs: infuse 1/2 cup of rhizomes and herbs in 0.5 liters of boiling water for 4 hours, strain. Drink 1 glass 3 times a day before meals for vasoconstriction and atherosclerosis.

For medicinal purposes, the fruits, flowers, and leaves of mountain ash are used. They have a capillary-strengthening effect and lower blood pressure. Rowan syrup: pour 300 ml of water into 700 g of granulated sugar, put on low heat. Dip rowan sprigs into hot syrup (this amount of syrup is enough for 1 kg of berries with sprigs), then sprinkle with sugar or powdered sugar and dry in a warm oven. Store the sprigs in a cool place in jars covered with oiled paper.

Raspberries improve the functions of the heart and blood vessels, normalize blood composition. You should eat 1 glass of fresh raspberries on an empty stomach 4 times a day for atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, anemia (anemia).

Due to the high content of vitamin C, black currants are taken to stabilize the condition of blood vessels. Berries lower blood pressure, improve the condition of the cardiovascular system, and have a general strengthening and anti-atherosclerotic effect.

Infusion of black currant fruits: infuse 25 g of fruits in 200 ml of boiling water for 2 hours, strain, add sugar to taste. Drink 1/2 glass 2-3 times a day as vitamin drink for hypovitaminosis, general weakness, poor appetite.

Infusion of black currant leaves: infuse 20 g of leaves in 300 ml of boiling water for 4 hours, strain. Drink 100 ml 4-6 times a day if your blood pressure rises.

Birch leaves strengthen the walls of blood vessels. Infusion of birch leaves: pour 1/4 cup of dry crushed birch leaves into 0.5 liters of boiled water cooled to 40–5 °C and leave for 4–5 hours. Drain the infusion, squeeze out the leaves, add water again, leave for 6 hours, strain and combine with the first infusion. Drink 50 ml 3-4 times a day. This infusion strengthens the body as a whole. It is recommended to take it to normalize kidney activity, with general weakness, after serious illnesses, operations, with cardiac edema, rheumatism, fluid disorders salt metabolism, especially with manifestations of arthritis lower limbs. Decoction of birch leaves: boil 20–30 g of birch leaves in 2 glasses of water for 15–20 minutes over low heat, then add 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda. Drink 100 ml 3 times a day for diseases of the kidneys, liver, heart, hypovitaminosis, arrhythmia.

Nettle grass and roots normalize metabolism, improve heart function, and improve blood condition. The most potent remedy is fresh nettle juice. You need to take it 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day before meals. Nettle decoctions and infusions, although inferior to juice in terms of potency, are nevertheless the most effective herbal remedies. Infusion of nettle leaves: pour crushed dry nettle leaves with boiling water in a ratio of 1:10, leave for 4 hours, strain. Drink 1 tbsp. spoon 4 times a day before meals.

Any preparations made from rose hips contain a lot of useful substances: salts of iron, manganese, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, vitamins B1 and B2, A, PP, P, K, E. In terms of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) content, rose hips are superior to all plant products. Rosehip infusion is prepared very simply: 2 tbsp. spoons of dry crushed fruits should be poured with one glass of hot water and kept in a water bath for about 10 minutes. Strain and pour into a tightly sealed container. The infusion should be taken after meals, 1/3–1/2 cup 2–3 times a day.

Attention! If the rosehip is May, the infusion retains its beneficial features no longer than 2 days.

Motherwort preparations help relieve irritability, calm negative emotions, which is certainly necessary for hypertension. These drugs also slow the heart rate and lower blood pressure itself.

Motherwort infusion is prepared as follows: 4 tbsp. spoons of herbs pour 1 glass of hot water, boil in a water bath for 15 minutes, cool for 45 minutes. Strain, squeeze. Take the infusion 1/2 cup 2 times a day half an hour before meals.

The fig tree grows only in the south of our country. A variety of parts of the plant are used for medicine: bark, petioles, leaves, seeds and, of course, fruits. The fig tree contains alkaloids, valeric acid, phosphorus, potassium and calcium salts, magnesium and iron, tannins, vitamins and sugars. Its decoction lowers blood pressure and has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system as a whole. To prepare the decoction, take 2 tbsp. spoons of dry raw materials and, pouring them with a glass of hot water, keep them in a water bath for half an hour in a closed enamel container. Then filter 2-3 times. Take the decoction 1/2 cup 3 times a day 15–30 minutes before meals.

Duration of use herbal infusions should not exceed six months after myocardial infarction, and doctors advise changing them every two months. After six months, if everything goes well, and after consultation with your doctor, you can alternate or combine the “main” five fees with the next five, which can support the cardiovascular system as a whole.

The fruits of rose hips and dill, arnica inflorescences, leaves of watch and peppermint, sweet clover herbs and wormwood, lily of the valley flowers - again equally. Take 10 g of the collection, pour 0.5 liters of boiling water and place in a thermos for 6 hours, then strain. Take 1/4 cup warm 5 times a day.

The fruits of hawthorn and fennel, clover flowers, white willow bark, St. John's wort herb - also equally divided. Take 5 g of the mixture per 250 ml of boiling water, heat in a water bath for 15 minutes, leave in a warm place for an hour, strain. Drink in three doses, the last one no later than an hour before going to bed.

The fruits of hawthorn, the whole strawberry plant, meadowsweet herbs, celandine and rue, the leaves of honey and fireweed, the flowers of viburnum - an equal amount of everything. Take 10 g of powdered collection per 400 ml of boiling water, boil for 2 minutes, leave for 2 hours, strain and take 1/4 cup warm after meals.

Hawthorn, calendula and linden flowers, dill fruits, oat straw - equally. Take 5 g of the collection, crushed to powder, in a glass of boiling water, leave in a thermos for 2.5 hours, strain. Take 2 tbsp warm. spoons 4 times a day half an hour before meals.

The fruits of the mountain ash, the leaves of the watch, lemon balm and honey - in equal parts. Take 6 g of the collection per 300 ml of boiling water, boil for 2 minutes, leave in a thermos for up to 2 hours, strain. Take the entire amount of infusion 3 times, regardless of meals.

It is recommended to use these fees in two-month courses without breaks, alternating with each other and with the fees recommended during the acute period of a heart attack. Only 1.5 years after a heart attack are short breaks, up to 6–8 days, allowed, but only when the composition of the collection is changed.

To strengthen the heart muscle in a patient who has suffered a myocardial infarction, the following recipe is effective. It is necessary to cut a large lemon in half, from each half with a teaspoon, select the edible part to a depth of 1 cm. Place the lemon halves in glasses or stacks, pour Lugol's solution into them to the top and, covering with parchment paper, place in the refrigerator for 14 days. After this, squeeze the juice from the lemon halves and store in the refrigerator. Use as follows: add the resulting juice to half a glass of weak tea, which should be drunk 3 times a day 20 minutes before meals, starting with 14 drops, adding 1 drop every day. On the 14th day of use you will reach 28 drops. After this, take a two-week break and repeat the course from the beginning. During this treatment, it is advisable to eat dried apricots, raisins, and apricots.

Cleansing blood and blood vessels

A lot of harmful metabolic products circulate in the blood - urea, creatinine, bilirubin, etc. When sick and unwell, the amount of toxins increases, which immediately affects the deterioration of general well-being. Of course, the disease must be treated by a doctor, but periodic blood purification will not be superfluous.

Blood cleansing activities begin with a three-day juice diet. It can be extended up to 5–7 days. Use freshly squeezed red fruit and vegetable juices: cherry, cranberry, beet, grape, blackberry, red cabbage. You can take several types of juices per day. However, it is best to consume a mixture of carrot and beet juice throughout the day, completely avoiding other foods.

You need to drink 1–1.5 liters of juice per day, dividing it into 5 doses, drinking 1 glass of water in between. It’s good to add other red juices to carrot and beet juice for variety - for example, pomegranate or cherry. Remember that in pure form beet juice cannot be consumed, it must be mixed with others.

The red color of the juices has a special meaning. Firstly, the red color, due to its special energy and frequency, resonates with the same characteristics of the blood, which stimulates hematopoiesis. Secondly, vegetable and fruit juices are saturated with biologically active substances that raise the body of a chronically ill person to the level of normal functioning.

To prevent veins from dilating, you need to strengthen their walls with vitamin C and other beneficial substances contained in the pulp of fresh fruits. It is also recommended to eat onions and garlic. Onions and garlic counteract the formation harmful substances, which increase blood clotting, increase blood fluidity and prevent the expansion of veins. It is advisable to have in your diet foods rich in substances beneficial for the blood - honey and apple cider vinegar, as well as vegetables and fruits: cucumbers, spinach, carrots, beets, bananas, raisins, cabbage and cauliflower, citrus fruits, beans, tomatoes.

The abundance of natural, active water supplied with juices allows you to quickly remove dissolved toxins from the blood.

To help the body better remove toxins, enemas are recommended.

Such measures to cleanse the blood will also cleanse fluids and lymph well. To this procedure, add a visit to the steam room every other day, if there are no contraindications. After the steam room, you should immediately drink a heavy dose of juice.

U traditional healers We have our own recipes, for example: 2 glasses of natural honey, a glass of crushed dill seed, 2 tbsp. spoons of ground valerian root, pour 2 liters of boiling water and leave for 24 hours in a thermos. Strain and take 1 tbsp. spoon 30 minutes before meals for a month.

The juices of parsley roots, horseradish, turnips, Jerusalem artichoke, coltsfoot leaves, chicory, etc. cleanse the blood well. Drink no more than 1/3 glass 30 minutes after eating.

If the level of uric acid is high, blood cleansing should begin with a diet that severely limits the intake of proteins into the body. Therefore it is recommended:

Do a juice or complete fast one day a week;

Eat exclusively plant foods one day a week;

Eliminate spinach, beans, legumes and other foods containing purines;

Limit your intake of animal protein, especially meat.

Drinking plenty of water also normalizes the alkaline environment of the blood. You should drink clean water, without impurities or sediment. You can drink distilled water by adding lemon juice to it; water with fruit or berry juices. Pure vegetable, fruit or berry juices are also an effective means of cleansing the blood of uric acid.

Nutrition for stroke

Healthy diet

Proper nutrition during strokes is more than just a way to maintain physical strength sick person. In this case, diet can play the role of a real healer, helping to cure a person (or prevent a stroke if it threatens). It is built according to several basic rules:

The first time after a stroke, food should be taken only in boiled and pureed form; frying food is completely prohibited;

First liquid meals are completely excluded, since daily liquid intake is strictly limited to 600 ml;

Food should be at “room” temperature;

Eat meals in small portions 5–7 times a day.

The patient needs a well-balanced diet rich in vitamins and potassium. However, it should contain as little cholesterol-containing fat as possible. Care must be taken to ensure that food and drinks do not raise blood pressure in any way. The menu can include lean meat (completely lean veal or young beef, or even better turkey or rabbit), fish, dairy products, eggs (but not more than one per day), pureed milk porridge (except millet, pearl barley and barley), vegetable purees, milk, vegetable and fruit sauces, nuts, corn, ripe soft fruits and raw berries, carrots, beets, green peas, cabbage, boiled potatoes, mushrooms, beans, soaked prunes, raisins and dried apricots, compotes from them, honey, jam, marmalade, marshmallows, marshmallows, weak tea with milk, a little butter, savory cookies, dried unsalted bread. The total number of calories a patient receives from food should not exceed 2000. Approximate meal times: fasting at 8 o’clock, first breakfast at 9 o’clock, second breakfast at 11 o’clock, lunch at 2 o’clock, afternoon snack at 17 o’clock, dinner - at 19 o'clock, meal before bed - no later than 21 o'clock.

Based on many years of research, scientists have concluded that by avoiding overeating, a person prolongs his life. Judge how much you've eaten by how you feel after half an hour. If you feel full right after eating, you've eaten too much, so next time stop a little earlier than you feel full. It's amazing how much less food we need to eat (compared to the amounts we are used to) in order to feel good and stay healthy. Give preference to low-calorie foods, limit protein intake and change the composition of your diet depending on the time of year and your lifestyle. Don't sit down to eat until you're really hungry. To reduce excess calories, experts recommend, in consultation with your doctor, one-day fasting every week and three-day fasting every three months.

A longevity diet should include the following natural foods:

Green leafy vegetables;

Sprouts of seeds, legumes and grains;

Naturally grown fruits and vegetables;

Nuts and seeds;

Fresh fermented milk products;

Poultry meat grown in natural conditions and fish from relatively unpolluted waters;

For drinking and cooking, you must use purified water.

Therapeutic products for stroke

Seed watercress. Take 3 times a day, 2 teaspoons.

Quince jam. This jam has a very beneficial effect on the state of mind during the recovery period. There are 7-10 tbsp. spoons of jam per day.

Dried apricots. Eat 100–150 g per day, since dried apricots contain magnesium, which has a vasodilating effect, and potassium, as well as vitamin B6, which is necessary for the formation of new blood cells.

Sprouted wheat. Take 100 g of grains, add water and place in a warm place. When sprouts 1 mm in size appear, rinse and mince. Add vegetable oil, you can eat honey in the morning on an empty stomach, 1 teaspoon.

Baked potato. Bake potatoes “in their jackets” and eat 2-3 potatoes every day, preferably with onions.

Sweet onion. Grate 100 g of onions, mix with 0.5 kg of granulated sugar. Take 1 tbsp. spoon one hour before meals or an hour after meals 3 times a day.

Jerusalem artichoke salad. Wash the tubers, leaves and young shoots thoroughly, chop, salt and add vegetable oil. Use 2-3 times a week.

Aronia berries (chokeberry). Take 100 berries 3 times a day half an hour before meals or an hour after meals for 2 months. Contraindicated for thrombophlebitis!

Protein and vitamin diet

During this diet, you are allowed to eat only protein and vitamin foods. Fats and carbohydrates must be completely excluded from the diet. Food should be consumed without any sauces or seasonings (ketchup, mayonnaise, sour cream, etc.). Only moderate salt consumption is allowed.

During the diet, you can drink mineral water, regular water (preferably warm), tea without sugar and herbal infusions. The quantity of these liquids is not limited. Other drinks (soft drinks, juices, beer, alcohol, etc.) are excluded. Food must be taken six times a day, every 2.5 hours. Due to the fact that not much time passes from one meal to another, the feeling of hunger does not arise.

As protein components, along with eggs, meat and fish, you can use low-fat cottage cheese, feta cheese (and other white, low-fat cheeses), lean game, and boiled sausage. As vitamin components not only fruits are suitable, but also raw or boiled vegetables without seasoning, such as beets, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Just do not eat fruits that are too sweet, such as grapes, bananas, apricots, persimmons (they contain too many carbohydrates ). For the same reason, potatoes are not suitable.

A vitamin-protein diet will allow you to lose 5–7 kg in ten days. It is quite easily tolerated and does not cause hunger.

If you need to lose more weight than 5–7 kg, then you can repeat this diet, taking a break for one to two weeks.

Recipes for herbal and fruit infusions

With the help of drinks, you can not only replenish fluid losses in the body, but also spend additional procedure cleansing and healing the body. After all, herbs and fruits, which are recommended for use in making teas and infusions, have enormous medicinal potential.

Peppermint soothes, relieves spasms of the intestines and blood vessels, relieves pain, improves appetite. They use leaves that are collected at the beginning of budding and flowering.

Cranberries reduce fever, stimulate appetite, and have antipyretic, diuretic, and bactericidal effects. Increases secretion gastric juice Therefore, it is used to treat gastritis with low acidity and pancreatitis. Cranberry prevents the formation of certain types of kidney stones and stimulates pancreatic function. Cranberry is contraindicated for gastric and duodenal ulcers in the acute stage.

St. John's wort stops inflammatory processes, regulates intestinal activity, has anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, wound-healing, diuretic and choleretic effects.

Rosehip has an anti-inflammatory, anti-sclerosis, healing effect, has a general strengthening effect, and replenishes vitamin deficiencies.

Linden blossom has a calming, diuretic, diaphoretic, antipyretic, expectorant, and anti-inflammatory effect.

Raspberry berries have a diaphoretic, antipyretic, analgesic effect, and are useful for anemia, atherosclerosis, and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

Apples are useful for metabolic disorders, have a calming, vasodilating, hematopoietic, diuretic and expectorant effect, useful for kidney and liver diseases, urolithiasis, gout, rheumatism. They help remove oxalic acid, radionuclides, and excess cholesterol from the body. People suffering from gastritis and stomach ulcers should limit their intake of apple juice.

Cherry berries have an expectorant, hypoglycemic and antiseptic effect. The nicotinic acid, rutin, carotene, and folic acid they contain are actively involved in the regulation of metabolism. Cherry leaves can be used as a sedative.

Lingonberries contain a number of useful biologically active substances, sugars, and organic acids. It is recommended to take it in case of vitamin deficiency, to regulate salt metabolism, when inflammatory processes in organism. The berries have a diuretic, astringent, and antiseptic effect. Lingonberry leaves should be collected in the spring during flowering. Fresh lingonberries and lingonberry juice are contraindicated for stomach and duodenal ulcers; for kidney disease, the juice can be taken after consultation with a doctor.

Fresh berries, leaves and rhizomes of wild strawberry prevent the development of cerebral vascular sclerosis, are able to remove kidney and liver stones, and treat stomach and duodenal ulcers.

Black currant berries contain a large amount of vitamins, have a tonic, sugar-lowering, vasodilating, blood purifying, antitumor and anti-radiation effect. Taking them has a beneficial effect on the entire body and improves metabolism. Blackcurrant leaves stimulate the functions of the adrenal cortex and have a diuretic and diaphoretic effect.

Rowan fruits have anti-inflammatory, hemostatic and diuretic effects.

Lemon will be useful as an anti-cold, anti-sclerotic remedy; lemon peel is good for treating diseases of the digestive system.

Green tea with apples Pour 300 g of apple peel or chopped apples without seeds with water and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes. Pour this decoction over green tea leaves and let it brew. This infusion has hematopoietic properties, helps against sclerosis, gout, hoarseness, and cold cough.

Prefabricated infusion Mix equal parts of dry leaves of sea buckthorn, cherry, currant and St. John's wort and pour boiling water over it. You can add cranberry juice and honey.

Sbiten Dilute 150 g of honey with 1 glass of water and boil. Separately, boil sugar diluted with 1 glass of water. Drain the liquids together, bring to a boil over low heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add spices (2 teaspoons of St. John's wort, 2 cloves, 6 black peppercorns, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, ginger on the tip of a table knife), boil for 20 minutes. Let it brew for 10 minutes in a closed container. Drink hot.

Rosehip infusion with honey Pour 6 tbsp. spoons of rose hips 1 liter of warm water, leave for 15 minutes. Then boil over low heat for 10 minutes, add 1 glass of apple broth and honey to taste, strain.

Autumn infusion Mix 200 g of rowan, 30 g of dried raspberries, 15 g dried leaves currants and pour boiling water over them. Leave for 15 minutes.

Cranberry juice Mash 1/2 cup cranberries, add sugar and pour 1 liter of boiling water. Add honey to taste.

Raspberry infusion Pour 1 tbsp. spoon of dried raspberries with 2 cups of boiling water, leave for 15 minutes, add sugar or honey to taste.

Decoction of dried apples with honey Pour 200 g of dried apples, cut into slices, 2 liters of water and cook for 30-40 minutes, add some mint leaves. Strain and add honey or sugar to taste.

Fruit and berry tea Mix rose hips and black rowan fruits in equal parts. For 1 teapot you will need 2 tbsp. spoons of crushed fruits. Pour boiling water over them and leave for 30–40 minutes.

Cranberry tea Mash 1 teaspoon of cranberries with granulated sugar. Pour boiling water directly into the cup. After leaving for 10 minutes, strain.

Fragrant tea For 500 ml of boiling water, take 1-2 buds of cloves or a piece of ginger root, 1/4 teaspoon of cumin, cinnamon, mint, 2 bay leaves. Boil the mixture for 30 minutes, add tea leaves. Leave for 5 minutes. You can add honey to your tea to taste.

Tea with mint For a teapot, take 1 teaspoon of regular tea and 1 teaspoon of chopped mint leaf. Pour boiling water over and leave for 10 minutes.

Lingonberry tea For 1 cup of boiling water, take 1 teaspoon of dry lingonberry leaf. Leave for 15 minutes, strain, add honey.

Black currant leaf tea Pour 1 tbsp. a spoonful of crushed black currant leaves or shoots 500 ml of boiling water. Leave for 15–20 minutes.

Infusion of strawberry leaves Boil 20g strawberry leaves in 400ml water for 5 minutes. Leave for 2 hours.

St. John's wort tea Pour 1-2 tbsp. spoons of St. John's wort herb 1 liter of boiling water. Leave for 15–20 minutes, strain.

Sokolechenie

It is an indisputable fact that in the treatment of any disease one cannot do without vitamins. They are even more necessary for such a serious illness as a stroke. Moreover, taking them is much more useful in fresh, not recycled. For juicing - fresh juices! Everyone knows miraculous properties vitamins contained in fresh juices, but for each disease their selection and dosage undoubtedly vary. Juices should be consumed 30 minutes before meals in the amount of one glass for vegetable juices and a quarter glass for juices from forest plants. They should be drunk three times a day, including in the permissible daily volume of fluid for the patient. The course of such treatment should usually last at least 2 weeks. During this period, it is better, firstly, to give up eating meat and, secondly, be sure to tune yourself to positive and joyful thoughts that the juices you drink give the body exactly what it needs. Vegetable juices should be prepared either immediately before consumption, or no more than two hours before consumption.

Carrots - very healthy vegetable. But there is one limitation when drinking carrot juice: it should not be drunk by smokers, since when combined with nicotine, the microelements supplied to the body by carrots turn into carcinogens.

Beets are also an excellent source of health, however, with one drawback - beets have a pronounced laxative effect.

Celery juice maintains the balance of sodium and potassium in the body. It also helps eliminate excess calcium and boosts the functioning of the hormonal and immune systems.

Parsley juice increases vitality, strengthens blood vessels and helps tissues better absorb oxygen. Let us note that it serves as an indispensable remedy for any diseases of the cardiovascular system, but you can consume it in its pure form no more than 30–50 g per day.

Fresh potato juice helps remove toxins from the body.

Lemon juice is useful at least because it has a strong general strengthening effect.

Juices should and can be taken not only individually, but also in combination with each other. For example, here are the following combinations:

Carrots, beets and cucumber. Juice ratio 10:3:3.

Carrots, spinach, turnips and watercress. Juice ratio 2:1:1:6.

Carrots, celery, parsley and spinach. Juice ratio 7:4:2:3.

Carrots and spinach. Juice ratio 5:3.

Carrots, beets and celery. Juice ratio 8:3:3.

I'll give you a few more recipes.

"Life-giving mixture." Take a glass of carrot and horseradish juice, add a glass of honey and the juice of one lemon. Take 1-2 teaspoons an hour before meals or an hour after meals for 3 months.

The mixture can be stored in a tightly sealed jar in the refrigerator.

Beetroot juice. Raw beet juice, previously kept for 2 hours in an open container, take half a glass 3-4 times a day. The course of treatment is 2–3 weeks. You can simply eat 100–150 g of boiled beets every day on an empty stomach.

Carrot-beetroot tincture. Take a glass of beet and carrot juice and honey, 100 g of cranberries and 100 ml of alcohol. Mix and leave in a dark place for 3 days. Take 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day before meals.

Chokeberry juice. Take 50 ml of freshly squeezed juice 3-4 times a day between meals for 3-8 weeks. Remember that fermented juice loses its medicinal properties.

Cranberry juice. Take 1 tbsp daily in the morning on an empty stomach. spoon of freshly squeezed cranberry juice or just cranberries.

Birch juice. Drink 2–4 glasses a day.

Persimmon juice. Drink 2-3 glasses daily.

Turnip juice. Drink a glass of juice every day, you can add honey, or just eat 2-3 small turnips.

Apple juice. Helps remove toxins and strengthen the walls of blood vessels. Drink 2-3 glasses a day.

Most therapeutic measures take place “on the periphery”, some of them have a reflex effect on the functional state of the nervous system, others mobilize compensatory capabilities (T.V.

Some influences only contribute to better adaptability of the motor system to a vertical position L. Coller 1985, G. Palmer et al, 1988.

V.P. Lebedev, 1974, O.K. Senko 1976, K.A. Semenova 1978, 1986 in their works attach great importance to the origin of tone from impulses emanating from the labyrinths.

D. Derm, G. Boun 1964 believe that the activation of muscle tone is due to a reflex, which begins with the activation of stretch receptors in the muscles themselves. This means that at rest the tone may be insignificant, but when you try to make a movement, there is a sharp increase in muscle tone.

To reduce increased tone, hyperkinesis, and depressive states, various muscle relaxants, sedatives, and psychotropic drugs are used. K.A. Semenova noticed back in 1972 that muscle relaxants reduce the tone of both spastic muscles and their antagonists - hypotonic muscles.

Scientists use an acupuncture method with the introduction of Cerebrolysin and lidase into the earlobe. This method is described by N.Z. Mukhamedzyanov et al. in 1992, Since 1986, Osipenko-Skvortsov injected Cerebrolysin into biologically active points. V.G. Bosykh (2002) suggests widely using acupuncture.

In clinical practice, orthopedic and neurosurgical correction of pathological postures and attitudes is actively carried out. In children with spastic diplegia, persistent consequences of the labyrinthine tonic reflex persist, which lead to contractures, deformities, and the threat of dislocation of the hip joints, preventing the development of static, locomotor skills. In such conditions, the means of kinesitherapy are powerless and it becomes necessary to resort to surgical intervention in the treatment of cerebral palsy. According to E.P. Mezhenina (1966, 1983), E.A. Abalmasova (1983), A.M. Zhuravlev and co-authors (1986),

K.A. Ms. Halle, R.V. Butter, N. Thompson (1992), surgical treatment used mainly for spastic forms of cerebral palsy, sometimes for mixed spastic-hyperkinetic and spastic-ataxic forms. According to K.A. Semenova (1999) in the hip joints, flexion contractures were observed in 96.5% of children with spastic diplegia, less often in the knee joints - 18.8%, but in the ankle joints there were persistent pathological conditions such as equino-varus - 44.7%, equino -valgus - 40.4%, or calcaneal foot -11.8%. Contractures in the shoulder joints, often flexion-adduction, were noted in 42.4% of cases, in the finger joints - 27.1%, in the elbow joints in 63.5% and in the wrist joints - 80.0%. From the data presented it follows that it is precisely such violations of motor functions that determine the degree of immobility of these patients.

Opinions differ regarding the age of patients at which surgical interventions should be performed. F. Craid (1967), S. Feldkamp (1983) endorse early intervention, as it will lead to the correct posture of the child and will contribute to effective functional recovery. Research by R. Beals (1976), A.P. Kutuzova (1981), H.A. Ukhmanova (1985) show that after operations performed at an early age, relapses often occur or other gross deformities are formed as a result of pronounced reflex tonic activity and complications from prolonged immobilization. Summarizing the opinions of most researchers, the conclusion suggests itself that surgical intervention is inappropriate before 8-10 years of age.

The main types of surgical interventions on the upper extremities include:

a) with flexion contracture of the elbow joint - lengthening of the tendon of the biceps brachii muscle;

b) for flexion-adduction and intrarotatory contracture of the shoulder - lengthening of the tendons of the pectoralis major, teres major, latissimus muscles, subcapital derotational osteotomy of the humerus;

c) for pronator contracture of the forearm - tenotomy, or plastic surgery of the pronator teres and quadratus - the operation of Tuby and Denihi, transplantation of the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon to the distal third radius- Steindler-Green operation, and many others.

On the lower limb, surgery is aimed at correcting the shape of the foot. In the case of persistent plantar flexion of the foot, the Z-shaped lengthening of the Achilles tendon is most rational.

K. Barry (1979) noted that when flexor tone predominates, the pathological position of the feet should be corrected by functional methods. In order to correct incorrect posture and increase the stability of the limbs, interventions are performed on the bones and joints. For equinovarus foot and planalgus foot, the arthrodesis method of A.N. is used. Crawford, K Kucharzyk, B.R. Roy (1990), G.M. Nakano (1989), G.G. Guttman (1990). With spastic diplegia, impaired coordination of the muscles of the trunk and lower extremities is compensated by a pathological posture with flexion of the hips, knees and torso. In this position, the center of gravity of the upper body is projected onto the supporting surface of the feet; this position is a necessary condition for maintaining the torso in an upright position. But sometimes these compensations are not enough, therefore, the child is not able to sit down, stand, or walk independently. The worst results after surgical interventions for this form of cerebral palsy were noted by V. Etnire, C.S. Chamber (1993). V.G. Bosykh, B.B. Martyanov, A.A. Agunov, A.V. Vinogradov (2002) noted an increase in spasticity of 7% by 21-25 days in early postoperative period. Dravaric D.M., Feldkampm M, Denke R (1989) speak in favor of tenotomy for cerebral palsy.

Bouchard S., (1991) - elimination of adduction and intrarotatory contractures in the hip joints.

Functional neurosurgery methods used in the treatment of spastic forms of cerebral palsy include selective dorsal rhizotomy, chronic epidural electrical stimulation spinal cord, chronic intrathecal administration of baclofen, selective denervation, etc. Selective dorsal rhizotomy was developed by Peacock W.G. in 1982. The method is based on interrupting the arc of the stretch reflex by turning off the afferent link, dividing the dorsal roots L2-S1 into fascicular groups at the level of the cauda equina. In this operation, intraoperative needle electroneuromyography is used according to the method of Fasanoetal (1976), Park T.S. et al. (1993).

One of the promising methods currently is chronic epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord Waltz G.M., Andersen W.H. (1975). At the level of the lumbar enlargement of the spinal cord there are interneuronal structures, “spinal generators of locomotion”, providing coordinated muscle activity, which are stimulated (Braun (1911, 1913), Serington (1910), M.L. Schick (1976), K.V. Baev (1981), Y. T. Shpakov, E. Y. Shpakova (1995), V. S. Gurfinkel (1998), E. G. Sologubov, I. S. Perkhurova (1996)).

Worthy of attention, according to Penn, Kroin (1987), Penn et. al. (1989), and chronic intrathecal administration of baclofen is actively used. Being a GABA derivative, baclofen suppresses the presynaptic release of the excitatory transmitter by the terminals of primary afferent fibers. It is administered into the intrathecal space using an infusion system, including a pump and catheter. The pump is programmed to continuously infuse medication directly into the cerebrospinal fluid, which gives

an undeniable advantage. However, this technique is expensive because Requires pump refill every 3 months.

It should be noted that neurosurgical methods do not affect fixed limb deformities. According to Xu L. et.al. (1993) functional improvement was more than 80%.

The hyperkinetic form of cerebral palsy is one of the most resistant forms to conservative treatment. Visible positive dynamics can be noted after stereotactic operations. Options and combinations have been developed: extended thalamotomy with additional destruction of the central thalamic nucleus and ventro-caudal nuclei; modification of sagittal thalamotomy, which involves destruction of the entire nucleus in the sagittal plane (R. Heimburger 1965, G. Cooper et. al. 1973, L.N. Nesterova 1976, E.I. Kandelya 1981); combined thalamodentitomy (G.S. Cooper et. al. 1977, R.M. Davis, G.V. Gesink 1979); chronic stimulation of the cerebellar cortex (L.A. Whittaker 1980, R.D. Perm, M. Etzel 1982). At the same time, scientists concluded that these methods are not highly effective. So I.E. Kandel (1981) noted the effectiveness in the immediate period after surgery in only 50% of cases, he also said: “... among many dozens of patients who were unable to walk before the operation, stereotactic destruction of the subcortical nuclei, I did not observe a single one who, after the operation, independently went."

Neurosurgical methods are used, as a rule, in children over 8 years of age (Jankovik J.K. 1994). Despite the improved capabilities of the central part of the reflex ring, it is difficult to create new mechanisms for regulating motor functions, which naturally develop in the first years.

When habilitation of patients with cerebral palsy, methods of physical therapy are used. M.R. Mogendovich presents provisions on viscero-motor reflexes as the basis therapeutic effects during therapeutic

physical education. The essence of these ideas comes down to the fact that proprioceptive impulses that arise when the patient performs physical exercises independently or the patient’s targeted movements carried out by the instructor cause viscero-motor reflexes of varying complexity. In this case, the leading element of reflex regulation is the neurohumoral apparatus, which implements reflex effects on the autonomic sphere of the body, as well as the impact on proprioception, ensuring the functional tonic activity of the brain and, accordingly, the state of its regulatory mechanisms.

THEM. Sechenov pointed out in 1905 that in order to carry out brain activity, a certain minimum of irritation from the external environment is necessary. Noting in particular the role of muscular action through which the suffering organism contacts the outside world, he, on the other hand, pointed to the regulating significance of muscle feeling: “a person’s gait is upset incomparably more from the loss of muscle feeling, darker, barely reaching consciousness, than from paralysis of tangible sensations." In 1906, C. Sherrington formulated the concept of the leading role of muscle reception in the motor regulation system. In 1911 N.I. Krasnogorsky established the afferent composition of the motor cortex, which is the area of ​​receipt of all proprioceptive signals, the paths of which to the central nervous system are determined morphological studies. The connection between proprioceptive impulses and various parts of the central nervous system is especially clearly manifested in connection with the establishment important role reticular formation as a kind of collector and distributor of activating afferent flows into various brain structures.

In the rehabilitation treatment of children suffering from cerebral palsy, S.A. massage is widely used. Bortfeld (1956, 1962), M.N.

Goncharova (1961,1962), A.E. Sternhertz (1989). The authors emphasize that massage allows for the restoration of motor function. R.B. Bezarbekova et al. (1978), U.M. Lyubashevskaya et al. (1978), S. Levitt (1977), N. Knupfer et F. Rathke (1986) confirmed this point of view. According to K.A. Semenova (1988), K. Bobathet V. Bobath (1983), when using active massage techniques, activation of trophic processes occurs and increased deprivation of pathological afferentation. In addition to segmental massage, which reflexively acts through the Zakharyin-Ged zones, classical massage techniques, A.M. Tyurin (1986), N.N. White (1981), in addition generally accepted methods, use a relaxing massage aimed at reducing muscle tone in individual spasmodic groups, and strengthening weakened, hypotonic muscle groups stimulated by massage (A.D. Burychkova 1978, T.G. Shamarin 1989, N. Philhs 1969).

We should agree with the opinion of the authors that the same technique, depending on the intensity of the impact, can cause an increase in muscle tone and muscle relaxation, and, therefore, the need to very accurately dose the intensity of the impact (A.F. Koptelin 1969, I.M. Makhmudova 1978, N.E. Molskaya 1967, S.S. Severinov 1970). In 1989 A.E. Shterengerts expressed the opinion that to a large extent the effectiveness of acupressure depends on the qualifications of the massage therapist. Kolesnikov O.V. (1990) concluded that, despite the generally accepted view of the effectiveness various types massage in the rehabilitation treatment of patients with cerebral palsy, there is no clear understanding of the mechanisms of action of these techniques in cerebral palsy. According to foreign authors Koman-La, Mooney S.F-3rd (1996). and in recent years we have Spivak, E.N. Afanasyev (2002) use botulinum-anataxin (Botox) to correct spastic tone. Botox blocks neuromuscular transmission in striated muscles by inhibiting the release of acetylcholine from

presynaptic endings. As a result, reversible chemical denervation and weakness of the injected muscles occurs. Arens L.S., Goldschmidt R.B. write about the effectiveness of intramuscular administration of botulinum toxoid. 1997, Zelnik N., Giladi N., Goikhman L., Keren G., Moris R., Honigman S. 1998.

The physiotherapeutic method of correcting movement disorders using the biofeedback method on the devices “Miton”, “Myotsimulator”, “Bio-Bitman”, “Elita” is described in their works by Chernikova A.L., Nerasova E.M., 1988. Tetrash V.V., Smetankin A.A., Bekshaev S.S. 1988; Pinchuk D.Yu., Mikhalenok E.L., O.V. Bogdanov, V.M. Shaytor 1989, Binder S.A., Moll C.W., S.L. Wolf 1981, W. Petterson, K. Nelson, L. Watson 1993; I.D. Moreland, D.S. Coudrey, S.R. Scholes 1998. The sustainability of the clinical results obtained is also controversial. Muscle disorders of the lower extremities respond better to treatment and require fewer sessions than disorders upper limbs(Moreland I.D. 1998, Fuoso A.R. 1998, Basmagian S.V. 1983., Bogdanov O.B., Pinchuk D.Yu., Chernina H.C. 1987).

Training sessions aimed at increasing muscle tone are more successful than sessions aimed at reducing spastic tone. Basmagian G.V. are unanimous in this observation. 1982, Wolf S.L. 1979, 1987, Schleehaken R.E. 1993, Thompson M.A. 1998. Balneotherapy, heat therapy, mud applications, electrophoresis using drugs, electrical stimulation of muscles and nerves, electrosleep, magnetic therapy, ultrasound treatment were proposed by A.E. Shterengerts, I.V. Galina 1977, E.V. Shukhova 1979, N.G. Krivobokova et al. 1983, G.I. Belova, K.A. Semenova et al. 1985. In addition, sinusoidally modulated currents are used in the treatment of cerebral palsy. Electrophoresis with adrenaline affects the peripheral part of the kinesthetic analyzer, according to I.M. Mishina. (1968), leads to normalization of the motor sphere. O.V.

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Stepanchenko (1990) applies sinusoidally modulated currents to weakened antagonists in combination with the method of artificial local hypothermia of spasmodic synergists. According to the author, by depriving the chaotic ascending proprioceptive flow, hypothermia, acting on the muscular-ligamentous apparatus, contributes to the formation of adequate functional restructuring at various levels of the motor analyzer.

Many scientists suggest following the path of accelerating the development of normative skills, as well as catching up with what has been lost. The difficulty of eliminating already automated functions and dystonic attacks is due to the completion of the formation of an abnormally developed functional system, which is responsible for the development of pathological automatisms. In case of impaired motor development, simple proprioceptive stimulation is carried out through scleromeric, myomeric massage, therapeutic exercises, simulated vertical walking with support at the waist and crawling, carried out by a team consisting of a doctor, a massage therapist and a mother (T.N. Osipenko, 1997).

The K.A. complex is used. Semenova (2002), which includes simulated gaits, crawling in the Adele suit (modernized Gravistat), using a ball and other restorative means in combination with massage and physiotherapeutic procedures.

The Institute of Medical Rehabilitation Problems proposed a complex in 2002, which includes biomechanical correction of the spine, mobilization of joints, a massage system, reflexology, and apitherapy.

limbs), articular puncture techniques, blockades, vacuum massage, as well as acupuncture, electrophoresis.

I. A. Skvortsov (2002) uses hippotherapy in treatment: it involves riding a horse for 20-30 minutes 2-3 times a week. In Georgia N.I. Ionatashvili, D.M. Tsverava (2002) suggests right therapy for the development of motor skills in cerebral palsy. It is intended to master horse riding, while achieving synchronization of the patient's movements with the movements of the horse. The duration of the course is 40-60 procedures 3-5 times a week for 3-5 minutes.

Thus, we see that there are many methods of restorative treatment of cerebral palsy, including complex ones, but the effectiveness of most of them is insufficient. Of the listed methods, only the purpose of massage cannot be approached in a pathogenetically justified and differentiated manner.

Therapeutic physical education (PT)– a natural-biological method of treatment using means physical culture with therapeutic, preventive and rehabilitation purposes to restore the health and ability to work of a patient or disabled person.

Exercise therapy is the main link in medical rehabilitation; the method of exercise therapy is based on the use of the main biological function of the body - movement. Movement is the main stimulator of growth, development and formation of the body. The exercise therapy method is physiological and adequate for a sick person. The use of physical exercise creates conditions for the patient’s active participation in the treatment and recovery process at all stages of medical rehabilitation. Physical exercises have a tonic, trophic, compensatory and normalizing effect on the body for functional disorders. When teaching patients physical exercise, the following principles must be observed: systematic, consistent, conscious, active, visual, and accessible.

The principle of systematicity and sequence of physical activity in exercise therapy requires adherence to the following rules: from simple to complex, from easy to difficult. Regular dosed physical exercises stimulate, train and adapt individual systems and the body as a whole to increasing physical activity and its functional adaptation.

The main means of exercise therapy are physical exercises and natural factors, additional ones are mechanotherapy (exercises on simulators, block installations), massage and occupational therapy.

Basic forms of exercise therapy:

· morning hygiene exercises

· therapeutic gymnastics complexes are carried out in the form of gymnastic exercises for small, medium, large muscle groups

· walks can be walking, skiing, cycling, etc.

breathing exercises general and special, dynamic and static

· positional treatment (postural exercises)

· health path, excursions, short-range tourism.

Massage– a method of treatment and prevention of diseases, representing a set of techniques of dosed mechanical impact on various parts of the surface of the human body, which is performed by the hands of a massage therapist or (less often) with special devices. Massage improves trophic processes in the skin, stimulates the functions of the sweat and sebaceous glands, promotes the resorption of infiltrates, activates metabolism, increases gas exchange in organs and tissues, strengthens joints and ligaments. Massage as part of a comprehensive rehabilitation treatment of diseases of the internal organs, nervous system, diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system allows you to reduce the intensity of drug therapy, especially painkillers, antispasmodics and antiallergic drugs. The main requirement for all types of massage is maximum relaxation of the patient’s muscles and giving his body an average physiological position. Massage goes well with physical exercise, reflexology, physiotherapy and manual therapy.

Types of massage:

· hygienic (general and local),

· therapeutic (general and local),

· sporty,

· cosmetic

· self-massage.

Massage methods: manual and hardware. According to the area of ​​influence, massage is divided into general, local and segmental reflex. Segmental reflex massage can be therapeutic, hygienic, or sports. When it is carried out, it is not parts of the body that are subjected to mechanical action, but areas of the skin that are connected to certain segments of the spinal cord, and through them to internal organs innervated by these segments.

Acupressure is a type of segmental reflex massage, in which narrowly limited areas of tissue are massaged.

To the varieties hardware massage include: vibration massage, hydromassage, vacuum massage, baromassage, etc. The most common is vibration massage. Vibration devices are divided into general vibration devices that cause a shock to the whole body (vibrating “chair”, “bed”, “platform”, Goff bicycle workbench, etc.) and devices of local vibration influence - “Vibromassage”, “Tone”, etc.

Physiotherapy – a method of prevention and treatment based on the influence of natural and artificially created physical factors on the body.

General principles of physiotherapy:

· Principle individual treatment physical factors, taking into account age, gender, body reactivity, the presence of concomitant diseases, individual contraindications for the use of a specific physical factor

· The principle of course treatment with physical factors. The duration of the course of treatment may vary.

· Principle optimal treatment physical factors. The choice of therapeutic factor and method of application should correspond as closely as possible to the nature and phase of the pathological process.

· The principle of dynamic treatment using physical factors. Constant correction of the parameters of the used physical factors is necessary throughout the entire treatment period.

· Principle complex treatment physical factors. The high effectiveness of complex treatment is based on their synergism, potentiation of action, and the manifestation of new therapeutic effects.

Physical treatments:

Aeroheliotherapy (air and sun therapy) – air and sun baths

· Hydrotherapy – rubdowns, douses, general and local baths, showers, wet wraps

· Balneotherapy – natural and artificial mineral baths, natural and artificial gas baths (carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur, radon, etc.)

· Treatment with mud and mud-like substances - mineral silt, sapropel silt, peat, clay, paraffin, ozokerite, sand, etc.

· Electrotherapy – the use of electric current of various shapes, directions, frequencies; electric and electromagnetic fields (galvanic current, low-frequency pulsed currents, high-voltage constant electric field, UHF electric field, inductothermy, etc.)

· Light therapy – the use of radiation from artificial light sources (visible, infrared, ultraviolet radiation)

· Aeroion therapy – the use of unipolar atmospheric ions-aeroions obtained artificially.

Ultrasound treatment

· Inhalation treatment– wet and aerosol inhalations

X-ray therapy

The significant prevalence of diseases and injuries, the complexity and persistence of dysfunction, accompanied by long-term and often permanent loss of ability to work, place the problem of medical rehabilitation of patients among the most important medical and social health problems.

The authors' long-term development of rehabilitation problems for various pathologies allowed them to present their ideas about restorative treatment, justify the need for comprehensive rehabilitation measures aimed at stimulating restorative and regenerative processes, strengthening compensatory mechanisms, and also propose new technological approaches to restorative treatment of patients with various injuries and diseases .

Based on modern physiological and clinical concepts, we created theoretical basis therapeutic physical education, physical exercises are systematized and methodological provisions for their use are determined. Thus, the necessary prerequisites have been created for methodological development of specific issues in the field practical application means of physical therapy (physical exercises, massage, occupational therapy, etc.). All this taken together contributed to the formation of the domestic school of physical therapy.

Modern physiotherapy has solid clinical and physiological foundations and continues to develop. As a result of numerous experimental and clinical studies and observations, it has been shown high efficiency method of physical therapy for various diseases and injuries, the indications for the use of various means of physical therapy have been significantly expanded, the mechanisms of their therapeutic effect on various functions of organs and systems of the body have been identified. The basis of the positive effect obtained from the use of physical therapy is the process of dosed training, leading to an increase in the functional abilities of the whole organism and its individual systems and organs.

The manual we bring to your attention was created by leading experts working in the field of rehabilitation treatment of sick and disabled people. While working on this book, we sought to present in it a systematic presentation of modern ideas about the role of physical therapy in complex therapy diseases and injuries. Literary sources and the Internet were widely used, while we were guided by the latest publications on these sections in the domestic and foreign literature and my own experience of observing patients. The book is intended as a guide to help the doctor determine the algorithm for diagnostic actions, provide an opportunity to imagine the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying the disease, and based on this prescribe rational therapeutic measures means of physical therapy.

The first chapters reveal the features of the use of physical therapy in the clinic of internal diseases. Submitted methods of therapeutic physical culture (PT) are original and tested in a significant number of patients, some of them are protected by copyright certificates and patents.

In the chapter dedicated to methods of exercise therapy, used for diseases of the nervous system, provides the necessary information about the structure of the vascular system of the brain and the patterns of cerebral circulation, the mechanisms of its autoregulation. The issues of rehabilitation treatment and prevention are presented in detail, and a section of the work of the interdisciplinary medical team in the neurological department is covered.

For the first time, the inclusion of means of exercise therapy in the treatment of patients after infectious diseases. The basic principles of rehabilitation of these patients are given.

The chapters devoted to diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system provide specific exercise therapy techniques, the mechanisms of the beneficial action of various means of exercise therapy for injuries and illnesses.

Making an attempt at the initial, currently possible generalization of the literature and the clinical experience accumulated by the authors and the scientific substantiation of methods of treating patients by means of exercise therapy, we are aware of the inevitable costs, inaccuracies, and sometimes subjectivity. Hence the structure of this publication, sometimes approaching the type of a manual, sometimes close to a monograph.

Restorative treatment methods presented in this manual by means of exercise therapy were formed on the basis of observations made together with students (a number of whom were involved as co-authors), communication with colleagues in related specialties.

I express my sincere gratitude to all the specialists who were directly involved in the preparation of this manual.

Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation,
Professor V.A.Epifanov

Rehabilitation is a complex of medical, pedagogical, professional and legal measures aimed at restoring (or compensating for) impaired body functions and the ability to work of sick and disabled people. The Law “On Rehabilitation after Illnesses and Injuries” in our country provides for state-guaranteed payment for first-level medical rehabilitation and payment for outpatient observation and long-term hospitalization for patients who require long-term observation for an illness that causes a high social risk. The Law “On Compulsory Social Insurance against Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases” determines that the rights to social compensation of a socially insured person come into force if there is temporary loss of ability to work, its partial or total loss or death of this person occur under the following circumstances:

• accident at work;
• an accident on the way to or from work in the employer’s transport;
• Occupational Illness.

Rehabilitation is the restoration of body functions impaired as a result of an injury or congenital disease, operations, injuries. Rehabilitation is usually carried out in special centers.

Types of rehabilitation

Rehabilitation measures can be aimed at restoring the patient’s physical or mental health. Social rehabilitation, including social, everyday and socio-professional adaptation, is also important. Some patients require longer and more intensive rehabilitation, this is due to the severity of the disease.

Physical rehabilitation

The patient is prescribed special exercises and training programs to restore lost movements in the limbs. Therapeutic gymnastics is carried out under the mandatory guidance of an experienced kinesiotherapist. Some patients have to learn to walk again. They are prescribed various physiotherapeutic procedures that activate muscle metabolism (for example, electrophysiotherapeutic procedures). Doctors determine whether there is a need for aids to make the patient's life easier.

Mental rehabilitation

Speech therapists teach the patient to speak. In the absence of a larynx, the patient is taught the so-called. esophageal speech, the sounds of which are formed in the esophagus. It is also possible to use various technical means to facilitate the patient’s communication with others.

Social rehabilitation

Social rehabilitation is provided to persons who cannot take care of themselves independently and do not receive assistance from anyone else. necessary help. Social rehabilitation is available to persons after serving a prison sentence, persons with addiction problems, homeless people, as well as persons with mental disabilities and the unemployed. Social rehabilitation measures are necessary to return a person to normal life. They help a person find a job or retrain. Social rehabilitation also includes organizing the patient’s recreation and assistance in everyday life situations.

Who needs rehabilitation?

Rehabilitation is necessary for patients with rheumatism, arthritis or chronic lung diseases, as well as after myocardial infarction, heart surgery, and intervertebral discs, after a stroke, severe injuries, etc. In addition, rehabilitation can help the patient overcome painful cravings (for example, alcohol, sleeping pills, or drugs).

Ways and methods of rehabilitation

Depending on the illness or injury suffered, various rehabilitation measures are used.

Kinesiotherapy

Kinesiotherapy is the use of movement to recover from illness. Therapeutic exercise is used for patients with various disorders of the musculoskeletal system. For example, for arthrosis, diseases of the intervertebral discs, rheumatism, spastic paralysis, as well as spinal injuries. The use of isometric exercises is used to overcome muscle atrophy resulting from disorders of the musculoskeletal system. The main goal of kinesiotherapy is to stop further progression of the disease. There are special physical therapy exercises designed to restore mobility of certain joints. The kinesiotherapist teaches these exercises to the patient, who then regularly performs them independently. Some patients have to relearn how to walk, pick up things, and sit.

Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy - treatment various diseases using physical methods of influence that help speed up the healing process. These methods include the use of light, infrared and ultraviolet rays, heat, electric current, as well as massage and physical therapy. In addition, they also use water procedures. Medicinal substances are also used in baths with massage showers. Mud baths are also used.

Daily work

The patient must relearn many movements: sometimes he cannot normally use various household items, do housework or handle work tools. The social and occupational rehabilitation therapist shows how the patient, despite his weakness, can eat, cook, and work independently. If the patient requires a prosthesis, the doctor teaches how to use it. During occupational therapy, a patient who has lost the ability to perform his usual work works in special workshops and acquires new skills.

Speech therapy

After a stroke, traumatic brain injury, meningitis and other diseases, memory and speech center are often impaired. The patient is taught to speak again. In some cases, a speech therapist conducts training using pictures, and the patient must express the associations they evoke in words, so they gradually learn to speak. Sometimes the patient is unable to speak normally. In this case, the speech therapist at the rehabilitation clinic teaches him other means of communication. For example, when the larynx is removed, the patient is taught esophageal speech or sign language.

Help from a psychologist

Particularly big problems arise in patients with painful desires, because they often lack the will and desire to recover. With strict monitoring of such a patient, physical dependence often disappears quite quickly, but without further monitoring, alcoholics, drug addicts or substance abusers are not protected from the rapid progression of the disease. Often, consultation with a psychologist is necessary not only for the patient, but also for his family members. Working in self-help groups where people share experiences and help each other is effective. If the patient avoids or is afraid of contact with other people, professional help from a psychologist or psychiatrist is necessary. The help of a social worker is also extremely important, who will help a person adapt and find a job within his capabilities. In addition, the social worker will tell you about the benefits provided and the possibilities for receiving them.

Rehabilitation is especially effective if the patient himself takes an active part in it, thus helping himself.

Recovery after accidents

Rehabilitation measures are applied after an accident or when occupational disease. Occupational rehabilitation includes the acquisition of a new specialty.

Preventive rehabilitation course

The rehabilitation center uses many treatment methods, for example, therapeutic baths, inhalations, mineral water treatment, etc. You can learn about treatment conditions, various sanatoriums and services provided from your attending physician.

Who pays for rehabilitation?

Social insurance institutions pay disability benefits, compensation in case of loss of ability to work, or a one-time benefit if the loss of ability to work is determined to be 10-24% for life. Treatment, care, medical and vocational rehabilitation and aids for rehabilitation.

Where is rehabilitation carried out?

Various clinics and medical rehabilitation centers provide the patient with the development or restoration of his physical, psychological, social and professional potential or the person’s adaptation to life in society.

Rehabilitation of patients with serious illnesses

Rehabilitation is a set of measures aimed at restoring impaired body functions and the ability to work of sick and disabled people. Rehabilitation is also carried out to prevent the development residual effects. For this purpose, the necessary rehabilitation measures are applied, including specific ones, carried out only for certain diseases.

While still in the hospital, a social service worker contacts the patient. He answers all the patient’s questions. First of all, the doctor, social worker and patient decide on the most suitable rehabilitation center for the latter. After this, the doctor writes a referral. There are special centers that provide rehabilitation for patients with almost any disease. In them, an individual treatment plan is drawn up for each patient, the components of which may include gymnastics, diets, drug treatment, consultations with a psychologist, etc. The patient’s stay in the rehabilitation center is 3-4 weeks. If during the last examination the doctor concludes that the patient is not yet healthy, then the treatment is extended. The doctor determines the patient’s ability to work after rehabilitation. If the patient has suffered a serious illness, he is immediately sent to rehabilitation center. Later, treatment continues at home. The local doctor can annually refer the patient for rehabilitation treatment to a sanatorium.

Returning to work

Insurance companies operate on the principle “rehabilitation is better than retirement.” This means that after an injury or serious illness, a person must begin to perform his professional duties. If, due to an injury, he cannot perform the same amount of work, then the load is increased gradually: at first the person works only a couple of hours a day, after a few weeks the work time is increased.

If, after suffering an illness or injury, a person’s ability to work is restored, but, for example, due to an allergy or disability, he cannot perform his previous job, then in this case he is given the opportunity to acquire a new profession (they select the field of activity that he is capable of).

Salaries are paid based on a certificate of incapacity for work, but only until a certain period. Before the expiration of this period, a person must undergo a medical commission, which will decide the issue of his ability to work. If a person is disabled (temporarily or even for life), then he is assigned disability. The patient must be constantly under the supervision of a family doctor, who monitors his condition and performance.

It doesn’t matter whether a person wants to go to a rehabilitation center, retrain or receive a disability pension, an application to the appropriate social service he must write with his own hand. No matter how severe the case, doctors will not look for the patient. True, there is one exception to the rule. If an accident occurs at work, the employer must report it to the appropriate authority, which will take care of the victim and take the necessary measures.