Ortopediia travmatologiia i protezirovanie
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Ortop Travmatol Protez · May 1991
[Effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia in the treatment of chronic post-traumatic pain syndromes].
The present work is dedicated to the study of the acupuncture analgesia efficiency in ambulatory practice in treatment of chronic post-traumatic pain syndrome as well as the comparative characteristics of the acupuncture analgesia and electric analgesia in treatment of this pathology. There have been analyzed the results of treatment of the pain syndrome after the traumata of the lower limbs by the IRT method (106 patients), compared the terms and the results of the treatment by the above mentioned methods as well as by the separate acupuncture analgesia and electro-analgesia methods. As a result, it should be noted that the IRT method is more effective in treatment of the chronic pain syndrome as compared with the common traditional methods. The electroanalgesia method, in turn, contributes to more rapid pain soothing and restoration of the vegetative and trophic functions than acupuncture.
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Ortop Travmatol Protez · Apr 1990
[The system of evaluation of the severity of injuries (status and prospects of the problem)].
The authors have substantiated the necessity of elaboration and introduction of a single all-state++ system of objective quantitative evaluation of the severity of the injuries. A brief comparative characteristic of the most popular Soviet and foreign systems of the severity of the injuries is presented. The synthesized scales (elaborated at the prognosis laboratory of the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics ) for a quantitative evaluation of the character and the localization of the fractures are presented.