KINESIO TAPING AND EXERCISE THERAPY FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY OF HEADACHE, AGAINST DYSPLASTIC INSTABILITY OF CERVICAL SPINE IN CHILDREN

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Headache (HA) is one of the most common symptoms in modern clinical medicine, as more than 70% of the population of developed countries suffer from intermittent or systematically HA 1 . As a rule, the secondary nature of HA determines the importance of revealing a leading etiological factor, which the way and efficiency of treatment depend on 2 . One of the most common forms of the secondary cephalgia is “cervicogenic headache” (CHA). The pathophysiology of this type of headache requires further studying, although the assumption of a possibility of provoking headache pathology by the cervical spine (CS) has been discussed since 1925. The term CHA combines different mechanism types of headache associated with diseases and pathological condition of the cervical spine and other structures of the neck. The vertebral arteries (VA) locate at the narrow bone canal, created in the openings in the transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae, so even a relatively minor problem in the cervical spine affects their hemodynamics 3 . Among children and adolescents, according to disaggregated data, more than 40% suffer from headache 4 . But despite a great number of researches,