[Comparative analysis of EEG characteristics in patients with acute phase of ischemic stroke (according to data of computer electroencephalography)].

A complex clinical and computer-assisted EEG study was carried out. 97 patients with acute ischemic cerebral hemisphere and 27 patients with acute ischemic brain stem stroke have been observed. A computer-assisted EEG was found to improve considerably diagnostic quality of stroke patients. It enables to determine the degree of functional lesions of the brain. Local changes of EEG-pattern prevail in patients with acute ischemic cerebral hemisphere stroke. Patients with acute ischemic brain stem stroke developed diffuse changes of EEG-pattern. Background EEG is the most representative technique to reflect bioelectric activity of the brain and it enables to assess the plasticity and reactivity of processes of the brain.

[Pathological aspects of post-stroke muscle tone disorder: clinical-neuro-visual study]. / Patogeneticheskie aspekty postinsul'tnykh narushenii myshechnogo tonusa: kliniko-neirovisualizatsionnye issledovaniia.

We studied how different patterns of muscle tone disorders depend upon lesion site using CT. 111 patients not earlier 3 months after hemispheric stroke were studied. We showed the degree of spasticity to be determined by depth of hemispheric damage in relation to posterior limb of capsula intema. It also correlates with the degree of corticoreticular pathway damage. Even or irregular damage to this pathway which accompany pyramidal tract stipulates different patterns of spasticity, distribution and its interaction with structure of hemiparesis. Degree and structure of post-stroke muscle tone disorders after 3 months from the onset of stroke is depend on hemispheric damage but do not depend on the duration of recreative or residual period of the disease. It can be applied in medical expertise that pattern and prominence of post-stroke muscle tone disorders 3 months after stroke onset depend on lesion location, but not on the length of recovery period or period of residual changes.

[Complex treatment of lumbosacral radiculoischemia using manual therapy]. / Kompleksnoe lechenie poiasnichnokrestsovykh radikuloishemii s primeneniem manua'lnoi terapii.

A total of 200 patients with discogenic lumbosacral radiculoischemias were investigated and treated. The radiculoischemia was most common in the 5th lumbar radiculus with less frequent involvement of the 1st sacral radiculus. The isolate affliction of the latter was seldom. This is the first experience of treating these patients with manual therapy and postisometric myorelaxation. Besides, the therapy comprised a number of other interventions: drugs (vasodilators, anticholinesterase, dehydrating, group B vitamins), balneo- and fangotherapy, electrostimulation using "Myoton-2" device. The therapy yielded positive results which were verified electroneuromyographically.