An example of such synthesis is the fruitful collaboration between manual medicine and different forms of acupuncture. The methodological union of the diagnostic and treatment approaches of these two disciplines with reference to vertebrosegmental problems is very powerful. Vertebrosegmental medicine employs visual, manual, instrumental and active motion procedures for the purpose of diagnosis. These procedures are used to demonstrate afferent, efferent and meridian symptoms of disturbances, which are caused by vertebrosegmental conflict. The above listed procedures have high diagnostic effectiveness during combined use because they cover the full pathogenetic spectrum of the basic unit of the integral homeostatic model, thus allowing objective evaluation of the state of biomechanical and neurophysiological factors with respect to segmental regulation of homeostasis.
Treatment effect is based on common use of listed methods.
It is also conditioned by purposeful correction of structural and biodynamic factors of vertebrosegmental conflict, as well as normalization of segmental neurophysiological and humoral mechanisms of homeostatic regulation. They are natural and physiological, and they exclude the use of expensive drugs and complex equipment for exhaustive correction of a number of health disturbances. Acknowledgement I wish to thank Dr. Ashley Cleveland for her assistance with the preparation of this manuscript. Physiology of Vegetative Nervous System. Anatomo-clinical Atlas of Neuropathology, 3rd edition.