Evaluation of psycho-vegetative disorders in cervical pain syndromes during treatment using manual therapy

Psychovegetal disturbances resulted in the aggravation of blood supply of highest vegetal centers due to involvement of pathologic process in a. vertebralis and its sympathic plexus significantly affected the manifestation of cervical pain syndromes. Complex examination of 124 patients with cervical pain syndrome was performed to study the influence of manual therapy. Clinical, neuro- orthopaedic, radiologic, miotonometric and rheographic methods were used. Manifestation and dynamics of psychovegetal disturbances were studied using pulsometry, psychologic tests and questionnaires. Manual therapy as well as correction of biomechanic disorders were detected to relieve psychovegetal changes and to be a pathogenetic curative method.