Relationships between changes in parameters of the manual function and electroencephalogram, heart rate variability as well as gas discharge visualization in children with spastic cerebral palsy caused by the Kozyavkin method

Abstract

Introduction. It was reported earlier that after two-week course of Intensive Neurophysiological Rehabilitation System (INRS) officially recognized as the Kozyavkin method [18-20], the parameters of the functional tests of hands in 108 children with spastic forms of cerebral palsy (SFCP) have been significantly improved. The increase has been detected in Box and Block Test by 22,9 ± 2,2% right and by 19,1 ± 1,3% left, in Nine Hole Peg Test by 16,7±1,9% right and by 18,8 ± 1,8% left, in Dynamometry by 30,6 ± 5,0% right and by 31,6 ± 6,1% left. In total the effectiveness of the restoration of functional parameters of hands by the Kozyavkin method makes on average 23,3 ± 1,6% versus 3,5 ± 1,4% in control. However, the average indicators obscure the significant differences between individual children. In particular, in 58% of patients, changes are very tangible, in 22% moderate, while in 20% are minor [21]. In another group of 29 children it was found out that reducing of the neural component of muscle tone (NCMT) was stated in 79,3% cases from 7,6 ±1,0 N to 1,6 ± 0,5 N (direct difference: -6,0 ± 0,8 N), while in 13,8% cases changes were not detected and in 2 children only NCMT increased from 1,6 to 3,4 and from 4,6 to 6,1 N respectively [13, 22]. It is known about abnormalities in the autonomous nervous system (ANS) in patients with CP [1, 14, 29]. Obviously, these abnormalities are associated with CNS damage. We have recently discovered the relationships between the parameters of heart rate variability (HRV) as markers of ANS activity and the background of EEG activity [31, 32]. Proceeding from this we hypothesized that such a variety of changes in NCMT is due to ambiguous changes in the background activity of the nerve centers. For their evaluation the following HRV and Electroencephalography (EEG) methods (about Neuroimaging in the conditions of Ukraine we can only dream) are available. Since such children are not always able to register EEG and HRV due to uncontrolled movements, the search for other methods for evaluating neural activity remains relevant. Back in 1880 Nikola Tesla demonstrated that when placing the man in the high-frequency field around the body there is a bright glow. In 1892 Y.O. Nardkevych-Yodko recorded a glow of human hands on a photographic plate. However, a well-known method of ‘high-frequency photography’ was due to the married couple S.D. and V.H. Kirlian who in 1939 independently