SU JOK THERAPY IN COMPLEX TREATMENT OF CHRONIC MIGRAINE
This article results the data from prospective controlled randomized research of efficiency of reflex-therapeutic techniques of chronic daily headache according to an actual problem of therapy. Relevance of this problem is confirmed by the prevalence of chronic daily headache in general population, including chronic migraine as the more popular. Chronic migraine is the main cause of a chronic daily headache in 55-87% of all cases. Prevalence of this disease among the working-age population, and also significant social and economic damage, sets aims to improve treatment of chronic daily headache both, pharmacological and non-pharmacological. The reflexotherapy takes the special place in treatment of this group of patients, as the drugs uses in prevention of migraine: beta-blockers, anticonvulsant, antidepressants, etc., causes a wide range of adverse effects, and must be assigned for long term period. During this study the authors evaluated the effectiveness of Su Jok therapy in complex treatment of chronic migraine, defined influence to chronic migraine of comorbid disorders, identified a group of patients for which this type of reflexology is the method of choice, defined clinically meaningful interval for Su Jok course therapy.