Rehabilitation therapy effect on state of hemodynamic of the head and neck vessels in children with cervicogenic headache

Korolenko N. V., Gorsha O. V. Rehabilitation therapy effect on state of hemodynamic of the head and neck vessels in children with cervicogenic headache. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2017;7(1):649-662. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1313794 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5676 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Author (s) 2017; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 27.03.2017. Revised 28.03.2017. Accepted: 27.01.2017. REHABILITATION THERAPY EFFECT ON STATE OF HEMODYNAMIC OF THE HEAD AND NECK VESSELS IN CHILDREN WITH CERVICOGENIC HEADACHE N. V. Korolenko, O. V. Gorsha Odessa Regional Charitable Foundation Rehabilitation of Disabled Children "The Future", Odessa Ukrainian Scientific and Research Institute of Transport Medicine, Odessa Abstract The purpose of research was follow-up studying (before the treatment course, after the course and 1 and 6 months after the treatment course) of clinical effect of single and combined usage of kinesio taping and physical therapy exercises and their influence on the state of vertebrobasilar basin vascular hemodynamics in the children of younger school age suffering from cervicogenic headache against a background of cervical spine instability. Each of the esamined methods of rehabilitation therapy results in positive dynamics of almost all the values of examination and improves the clinical state (reduction of frequency and intensity of headache), verterobasilar basin vascular hemodynamics (blood flow, vascular elasticity, reaction to the negative extravasal influencing of surrounding structures, venous outflow). The combined usage of kinesio taping and physical therapy exercises renders the best and more long-term clinical effect (such as reduction of frequency and intensity of headache) in children suffering from cervicogenic headache. The comparison of values of vertebrobasilar basin vascular hemodynamics revealed that all the suggested complexes of rehabilitation treatment improved blood flow of both intracranial and extracranial departments of both spine arteries of child patients, however, usage of only physical therapy exercises resulted in the less pronounced dynamics of values as compared with the usage of only kinesio taping and the combined usage of kinesio taping and physical therapy exercises. In case of the combined usage of kinesio taping and physical therapy exercises the reached immediately after the treatment of reduction of asymmetry of intracranial bloodflow persisted for a month, which was not observed in case of usage of other methods of rehabilitation therapy. The examined methods of rehabilitation treatment also resulted in the identical outflow of blood in both eye veins and the better blood outflow by straight sinus in case of the combined usage of kinesio taping and physical therapy exercises in the child patients. Keywords: children, cervicogenic headache, hemodynaics of vertebrobasilar basin, rehabilitation therapy, kinesio taping, physical therapy exercises