Physiological mechanisms in Vojta physiotherapy for MS-patients

Author(s): Poltz, W., Reimann, G., Seitz, S.

Journal/Book: Physikalische Medizin Rehabilitationsmedizin Kurortmedizin. 1994; 4/1: 1-4.

Abstract: In Vojta-physiotherapy, a congenital pattern of trot motion is produced. The corresponding muscular reactions are examined concerning zone-specific effects, spatial and temporal summation.86 MS-patients were treated beginning an the right and then an the left side using 6 pressure phases: successively two different individual zones, then pressure combination of both zones and vice versa in reverse order. During the pressure phases electromyographic activity (EA) is recorded at selected muscles.About half of the patients react under these conditions clearly with a spatial or temporal summation or a zone specific reaction. Such unequivocal reaction types increase significantly with the frequency of treatment. The greater the EA in the first pressure phase the larger is its increase in the final pressure phases (time effect, p < 0,05). As a rule, pressure combinations of two pressure points lead to a larger EA when one point is in the shoulder-arm-Segments and the other in the hip-leg-Segments.The results indicate which pressure point combinations - particularly in the beginning of therapy - lead to larger amplification effects; only among persons who react well to the therapy temporal summation effects are produced.

Keyword(s): Multiple Sklerose

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