[Manual therapy in complex treatment of patients with secondary osteochondrosis after sustained tuberculosis spondylitis].

The treatment results relating to 57 patients with neurological signs of osteochondrosis secondary to sustained tuberculous spondylitis with the pain syndrome prevailing in the clinical picture were studied. The majority of the patients (50) had limited affections of 1 or 2-3 adjoining vertebrae and 7 patients had extended processes (4-6 adjoining vertebrae). The treatment procedure was based on manual therapy: hand strength applied to the vertebral column, joints and muscles for eliminating pain and other neurological signs of the disease. The treatment should be complex and differential in regard to the clinical signs, the disease process and stage, the degree of functional disorders and of the pain syndrome. The manual therapy was the most efficient in patients with osteochondrosis secondary to sustained tuberculous spondylitis or the muscular tonic syndrome and moderate deformations of the vertebral column, as well as in those operated on for the main disease at the early stages.