FEATURES OF PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH EPILEPSY AND CORRESPONDING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/sports-education/2025-2-9Keywords:
epilepsy, ataxia, dystonia, hypertension, disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system.Abstract
Epilepsy is characterized as chronical neurological disorder, which creates electrical predisposition in the brain to generate seizure activity, dystonic posturing and generalized seizures. Epilepsy creates general abnormalities and dysfunctions in the work of neurological system and musculoskeletal system. The most pronounced consequences or clinical manifestations of the disease are impaired gait and deterioration of postural control, loss of muscle tone with possible formation of paresis. In temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), tonic or clonic motor behavior (TCB) is associated with automatisms of dystonic manifestation, i.e. deviation of the head and torso in the direction opposite to the localization of the nervous outburst in the corresponding temporal region.Aim: Critical analysis of moderns approaches to treatment of epilepsy with comorbid neurological disorders.Materials and research methods. Analysis and assessment of current scientific and methodological literature on the topic of practical implementation of the selection of the most effective methods and methods of physical therapy for patients with epilepsy and associated neurological disorders.Results. Analysis of the available literature on this topic concluded that there are studies about the effectiveness of physical therapy in patients with epilepsy and associated neurological disorders, but there is a lack of comparison between different approaches to treatment, therefore there is a necessity to generalise curent methods of rehabilitation in order to create more precise methodology of physical therapy of patients with epilepsy. Analyzing the research on the effectiveness of therapy, it is possible to establish the fact that there are many controversial and insufficient studies of nutrition, sleep, the terms and obligations of therapy. The study found that the use of physical therapy methods and tools, as well as the use of therapeutic exercises for patients with epilepsy and concomitant neurological disorders, create positive dynamics in the functional features of the patient’s clinical condition. At the same time, it has been found that the process of physical therapy has an impact on all groups of patients with different clinical cases through nervous and trophic action, thus restoring damaged or lost motor functions.
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