The use of the osteopathic correction for the combined treatment and rehabilitation of the patients presenting with the vertebral artery syndrome. The osteopathic manipulative treatment included in the combined therapy of patients with VAS based on the personified approach to the management of individual cases, detection and correction of each clinically significant functional disorder accompanying the pathological process greatly contributes to the regression of the neurological symptoms, elimination of somatic dysfunctions at different levels of the body, normalization of the blood flow in the vessels of the vertebral-basilar system. Taken together, these effects prolong the beneficial results of the combined rehabilitative treatment of the patients with the vertebral artery syndrome based on the application of standard pharmacotherapy and correction of the functional disorders with the use of the osteopathic methods.

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