Eastern medicine in management of chronic disk disease

The way in which chronic disc disease runs nowadays is turning it into a socially significant disease, which starts to spread among younger people. The consequences are connected with physical and psychological disorders, which limit the working capacity and lead to a serious economic loss for society. This state requires the participation of a multidisciplinary team, applying methods of unconventional and conventional medicine with an individual holistic approach. A similar management gives an opportunity to consider the body as a macro system in order to apply better healing to patients with chronic disk disease. The aim of this article is to investigate the role of unconventional methods with patients having chronic disk disease and the opportunities to improve their completely physical, mental and social health. Our tasks are: 1. To apply a complex of unconventional methods: acupuncture, meridian massage and reflexotherapy on feet with patients having chronic disk disease. 2. To investigate the efficiency of the combination between unconventional methods and the conventional method “healing gymnastics“. 3. To educate the patients with chronic disk disease how to prevent themselves from future recurrences. The object of our research is chronic disk disease and the subject is the possibility to increase the efficiency of treatment through the combination of unconventional and conventional methods of healing. The results of the research show that unconventional methods take an important part in the complex treatment of chronic disk disease and they are a necessary factor in increasing the efficiency of therapy with such patients. The whole perspective of the University Centre of East medicine at the Medical University of Varna is to expand the competences of the professional health workers in the field of unconventional medicine in help of healing chronic disease.