[Use of low dose lasers in physiatry]

The prospective study comprised 105 patients treated for six months in the out-patient and in-patient institutions suffering from the syndrome manifested in pain and disturbed functions due to the diseases of the nerve-muscle and bone-connective tissue systems. The group of patients with the vertebro-basilar syndrome was selected by a single-blind controlled trial while the rest constituted the group whose results were preliminary presented. Two modes of laser photobiostimulation were applied: local stimulation and stimulation of acupuncture points. Evaluation of effects were performed by following up subjective troubles, clinical examinations, laboratory analyses and in patients with the vertebro-basilar syndrome by rheoencephalography in addition. The application of the mentioned methods in different pathological states have shown positive results in 78% of patients with analgesic, spasmolytic and antiadematous effects. In patients with the vertebro-basilar syndrome disappearance of subjective troubles was followed by the improved perfusion in the vertebro-basilar system with the mean increase of the amplitude of the rheoencephalographic curve of 0.063 +/- 0.018 oms and the mean shortening of the anacrotic phase of 0.048 +/- 0.019 seconds.