[Use of manual reflexotherapy for correcting biomechanical changes in the chest and the functional status of the diaphragmatic neuromuscular complex in patients with tuberculosis].

Abnormal biomechanical changes of the osteoarticular and muscular apparatus of the chest were revealed by the method of manual diagnosis in all 72 examined patients in a tuberculosis clinic. They appeared as various functional blocks in the vertebral motor segments and regional postural muscle imbalance which was attended by lower lung ventilation capacity and dysfunction of the diaphragmatic neuromuscular complex. After the course of manual reflex therapy comprising mobilization, manipulations and postisometric relaxation, 80% of the patients felt easier respiration, lower chest stiffness. There was a significant increase of functional capacities of the external respiratory apparatus in all the patients.