METHOD OF TREATING PROXIMAL HUMERAL INJURIES

FIELD: medicine.SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to traumatology and orthopaedics, and can be used for treating proximal humeral injuries. That is ensured by three-staged complex therapeutic actions. At the first stage, setting of fracture and reduction of humeral head dislocation is followed by immobilising an extremity by continuous twenty-four hour brace fixation of the proximal humerus with Desault's bandage for the period of 4 weeks. From the first therapeutic day, the patient does daily 30-minute therapeutic exercises, including isometric, static and ideomotor exercises to strengthen his/her arm muscles and to improve the circulation. That is combined with a complex reparative drug therapy. At the first stage, the anti-inflammatory preparation Arthrofoon is administered orally, while vasodilators improving nicotinic acid, trental or complamin microcirculation are injected intramuscularly daily for 10 days. The enzymatic preparations Wobenzyme or Flogenzyme are also administered in a dose of 3 tablets three times a day for 3-4 weeks. The second stage starting two weeks after the beginning of the treatment involves electric stimulation (ES) by exposing the collar and shoulder muscles from the involved side for 30 minutes to electric signals generated by an electric myostimulation device. The ES procedure requires the patient to perform 15-minute active motions by a healthy arm, and for the following 15 minutes the patient is expected to tense and relax alternatively the muscles from involved side. The therapeutic exercises are also done. The drug treatment regimen of the second stage implies administering the preparations Calcemin or Calcemin Advance for six months. That is combined with 10 daily intramuscular injections of the preparation Milgamma 2 ml. At the third stage 4 weeks after the beginning of the treatment, control X-ray imaging is followed by removing the brace. Accompanied by the reparative drug therapy continued, the complex therapeutic actions provide local injection therapy in number of 8-10 daily procedures. The biologically active reflex areas nearby the involved joint are pre-exposed to focused red laser light, and the mixed preparations Alflutop, or other chondroprotector, vitamin B12, Contrykal or Lidase, Lidocaine are injected in the same areas. Two weeks after the brace has been taken off, the patient keeps doing the therapeutic exercises twice a week continuously. The drug therapy and local injections are repeated