Contra-indications to the method are rheumatic affections of spine joints (collagenopathies), any oncologic pathologies, cardiovascular diseases in the decompensation period, organic diseases of the spinal cord, pregnancy, serious forms of ostheoporosis with risk of spontaneous vertebral fracture.
Prof. Dzhalaludin Saidbegov
Studio Treviso
Via Treviso, 21 Roma
ph: (0039)06.44231001
ph: (0039)06.4404318
mob: (0039)335.387224
e-mail: d.saidbegov@libero.it
Dott. Ramazan Saidbegov
Clinica di Chirurgia Addominale dell’Eur
Viale Africa, 32 Roma
ph: (0039)06.54991
Studio Treviso
Via Treviso, 21 Roma
ph: (0039)06.44231001
ph: (0039)06.4404318
mob: (0039)333.5644981
e-mail: anacarsi@libero.it
For a long time now, spine and joint diseases have been among the most spread pathologies world-wide. This is due to specific and environmental factors of the different countries as well as to individual reasons in the subjects involved. It is furthermore linked, as denominator common to developed countries, to sedentary habits and to frequent laziness or impossibility to walk considerable distances daily, regularly and systematically; not occasionally as it usually happens (if it does). Statistics show that once reached their 30s, 7 per cent of world population suffers from what is generically called “backache” while 25 per cent reports subclinical manifestations of it.
Among those patients suffering from “backache” and following secondary neurological manifestations, young and middle-aged (40-50) people are the most prevailing cases; patients belonging to working age are usually oriented towards pharmacological therapies in order to achieve the pain syndrome regression as fast as possible.
But not always, and not with everyone do medicines work with the efficacy expected, while it is clear how the prolonged and intensive use of medicines implies not welcome, and at times dangerous side effects, always and for everyone.
Side effects are objective limits of all pharmacological treatments. However, if these limits must be accepted (always under medical examination) in those cases where no alternatives are available, they can be avoided, so becoming virtual, when an alternative exists and the strong need of medicines ceases.
That is the case of “backache” that can be healed through a manual treatment of the spine, without turning to any kind of medicine.
A centuries-old method, originated in Russia and Ukraine, and recently set by the Ukraine academician Nikolaj Andreevich Kassian is particularly famous among many others in spine manual treatment. In the last few years, the so called Kassian Method has been worked out and revised by Prof. Saidbegov. By him defined Non Invasive Articular and Vertebral Replacement (RAVNI), this technique differentiates from the others for these two main reasons:
1) It can be applied by specialists only; long-experienced neurologists, orthopaedics and doctors. Not less than 5-7 years of daily training are needed to master the methodology.
2) The use of so-called “short levers”, vertebral apophyses, in the manipulation of the back.
RAVNI method allows the practitioner to operate on the focus of the pathology since the first day of treatment and to heal at the same time the whole spine and the different suffering joints.
This method is successfully applied to the following pathologies:
Scoliosis, kyphosis, upper and lower limbs arthrosis, cervical, lumbosacral and thoracic arthrosis and their secondary emergence (cephalalgia, cervicalgy, dorsalgy, lombalgy, lombo-sciatalgy, vertebrobasical vascular flux disorder, vertebral artery syndrome, etc.), discopaties, protruded and slipped disc (expelled also), limbs periarthritis, scapulo-homeral periarthritis, epicondylitis, styloiditis, etc.
The treatment starts with an in-depth analysis of the instrumental enquiries results, a full neurological-orthopaedic examination and a diagnosis on the pathological state of the spine or the joint, operating with extreme tactile sensitivity thanks to years of experience.
Main goal of those manipulations is first to release the vertebral segment – focus of the disease – and the whole spine, and secondly to normalize intervertebral relations eliminating the deformity of intervertebral joints capsules and their “subluxation” so to restore the motion of the vertebro-motory segment and the removal of inflammation and pain. The therapy’s result is a muscular and tendinous relaxation along with the restoration of the spine biomechanical function. Thanks to manipulation, blood and lymphatic circulation is improved together with cells metabolism of the painful segment and of the whole spine: this improving the metabolic processes of cartilaginous tissues, around discs and joints as well. As acknowledged, it is by intervertebral discs pathologies due to radicular disc conflict that structural metabolic in adjacent tissues occur: tendons, ligaments, neurosteophibrosi muscles. On these formations the methods operates as well.
Slipped disc can be repositioned through the method only in its acute phase (early hours, sometimes first days from the slipping event). If a long time from the disc emergence has elapsed, manipulation can eliminate the inflaming process around the hernia, freeing the edema and promoting the reabsorption of the liquid part; with subsequent calcification of the hernia and liberation of the compressed nerve root. It will result in the elimination of the lumbosciatalgic syndrome and the re-establishment of the functions of the vertebral segments and of the whole spine.
The therapy is organized in courses of 10 sittings each, daily.
During each course of manipulation, patients must suspend all other current therapies like physiotherapy and medical gymnastics. It is appropriate furthermore to stop practicing sports and hard works. At the end of each sitting it is recommended to relax 20-30 minutes on a small bed.
Rules to keep after each therapeutic course
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* RAVNI – technique based on the Kassian method, updated thanks to the experience of Vietnamese medicine and other sources, and improved by Prof. Saidbegov with his 25 years of experience in this field.
1) Treatments are physiologic and do not involve the use of medicines or surgery;
2) Compared to traditional methods, the period of treatment is dramatically reduced;
3) The method corrects the function of the whole spine stimulating the normalization and the running of internal organs and body;
4) The treatment can be done anywhere at any time;
5) The method (in case of emergency) does not require complicated analyses or expensive instruments. Just a raised and quite rigid surface is needed;
6) Complete recovery or improvement happens in 95% of cases. Complications of any kind are to be excluded.
Work standing up
Anyone who works standing up, such as painters, surgeons, dentists, engineers, shop assistants or housewives at a kitchen table or sink, must be careful in holding their back upright. The load on lumbar section could be reduced by putting alternatively our feet on a stool or pedestal every 15-20 minutes (picture 1 showing woman at the sink). Pretending to be walking without moving and inspiring with the arms upward, bending our back a couple of times can also be good (see picture 2).
picture 1
picture 2
Work sitting down
Anyone who works sitting down, such as tailors, secretaries, drivers, air-line pilots, programmers, etc. should keep the lumbar curve (lordosis) while putting the back firmly on a thin under blanket (8-10 cm) or on a small cushion. Sit down with our back upright without bending the head forward or flexing the trunk so to avoid many muscles, being outstretched, to get quickly tired or numb. Those short of stature must use footstools. The chair must not be higher than the length of the shin-bone and its depth not bigger than 2/3 of the hip. Elbows must rest on the main surface of the table. In case of long reading, reading-desks must be used to avoid flexing the trunk forward (pictures).
Weight-lifting
If you happen to lift or move a weight, avoid sharp movements with trunk twisting. Never hold the weight outstretching your arms forward. Do not lift it with legs upright and back bended (picture 3). Try to arrange the weight on both hands equally (picture). Also babies should be held properly (picture). Those young people carrying heavy shoulder-belt bags run the risk of a curvature of the dorsal spine (scoliosis).
picture 3
Dr. Ramazan Saidbegov was born on October 10, 1972 in Vladicaucase, capital city of North Ossetia (Russian Federation). He spends his childhood in the Caucasus where he starts his studies, later completed in Moscow. During his education he attends an elective course in Nursing Sciences and obtains a certificate in “Ill patients care nursing” passing the final exam with full marks. In 1989 he is admitted to the Faculty of Medicine of Dagestan Republic, where he attends the first academic year. From 1990 he continues medicine studies at Third Medical Institute of Moscow.
In 1993 he interrupts medicine studies to enrol at the University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy) where he obtains a degree certificate in Italian Language and Culture in 1994.
The same year he passes the entrance examination at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at “La Sapienza” University of Rome where most of his previous exams are validated. During this period he takes voluntary service by the Mental Illness ward at “S.Spirito” Hospital-Rome. He graduates in 1999 with a dissertation on “Psychic comorbidity in alcoholism”. He obtains that year the licence to practise medical surgery.
Between 2000 and 2002 he works as doctor at the “Parsec” Day Hospital for drug addicted.
In 2001 he attends the Course of Drug Addiction Awareness at “Villa Maraini” Foundation.
After attending a course at the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (Europe) and obtaining the Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist certificate, he uses the Acupuncture Detoxification Protocol (ACUDETOX) at Coop Parsec in the street unit for the reduction of drug addiction.
He attends, between 2001 and 2004, a three year Master degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Traditional Medicine at “Fatebenefratelli” International Foundation-Rome (Isola Tiberina) obtaining his Diploma with a dissertation on “Strange Meridians. Embryological origins, topography, functions”.
He investigates, on his own and in seminars, the therapeutic methods of ACUPUNCTURE, AURICOLOMEDICINE, MOXIBUSTION and PHYTOPHARMACOLOGY, parts of the Traditional Chinese Medicine.
On October 20, 2005, he is put on the Acupuncturers Register at the Rome Provincial Order of Surgeons and Dentists.
Between 2002 and 2005 he works for the Dialysis Centre of Villa Pia Clinic, and for the Dialysis Centre of Clinica Nuova ITOR-Rome between 2004 and 2007.
Since 2007 he has permanently worked with Prof. Saidbegov in the treatment of osteoarticular pathologies, through the application of MANUAL THERAPY – Non Invasive Articular and Vertebral Replacement that, thanks to years of practice, he now masters along with treatments from Traditional Chinese Medicine.
He receives by appointment at Clinica di Chirurgia Addominale – Eur.
Dr. Ramazan Saidbegov practises Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture, Auricolomedicine, Moxibustion and Phytopharmacology treatments)
Surgery pathologies:
Bronchial asthma: in patients with no concurrent pathologies, along with “western” treatments;
Oral cavity diseases: toothache, pain following dental extraction, gingivitis, acute and chronic pharyngitis, etc.);
Gastrointestinal diseases: acute and chronic gastritis, gastric hyperacidity, pain management in chronic duodenal ulcer, chronic duodenal ulcer with no complications, chronic and acute colitis, constipation, diarrhoea, etc.);
Cephalalgia;
Hemicrania;
Ictus Outcomes Rehabilitation;
Neuropathies and Myopathies;
Pain Syndromes of Osteoarticular System (intercoastal neuralgias, neck and arm syndromes, Frozen Shoulder, Tennis Elbow, sciatica, lombalgy, osteoarthritis, etc.);
Elderly diseases: asthenia, shivering and Fear of cold, lumbar weakness, gonalgia, memory dysfunction, etc.);
Psychic imbalance pathologies: alterations in sleep-wake behaviour, stress disorder, anxious-depressive syndromes, generalized anxiety disorder, somatization disorder, sexual asthenia, etc.);
Reproductive System pathologies: premenstrual syndrome, painful or irregular menstrual periods, semen loss syndrome, erectile dysfunctions not due to somatic pathologies, etc.);
Addictions: (to tobacco, alcohol, drugs) in patients showing explicit will, along with psychotherapeutic methods.
M.D. Prof. Dzhalaludin G. Saidbegov was born on November 6, 1948 in Dagestan Republic (Russian Federation).
In 1955 he enrolled in secondary school. After classifying first at the provincial Physics and Mathematics Olympiad, at the end of the eighth grade, he was accepted in a class specializing in physics and mathematics for gifted children of the Republic of Dagestan at Makhachkala. He completed his studies as external student in 1965. In the same year he entered the faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the Dagestan State Medical Institute (University equivalent) and graduated in 1971.
He specializes the following year in neuropathology from Postgraduate Medical Institute of Leningrad. Later, he works in Buinaksk (Dagestan Republic) at the Inter-regional Occupational Health Board and operates as neuropathologist in Moscow region between 1975 and 1977.
In 1977 he is admitted to Ph.D. at the Central Institute for Occupational Health Research, where in 1981, he obtains a Science Candidate degree (Ph.D.) with specialization in neurological diseases.
Between 1978 and 1982 he works as scientific collaborator for the Central Institute for Occupational Health. In 1982 he is appointed manager for the neurology ward of the Moscow university hospital n.40 and neuropathology head in Babushkinski town council-Moscow.
His passion for so-called “alternative medicine” for the treatment of patients with vertebral diseases springs from the mid 80s. Gathering the experiences of several Russian “healers”, he starts adopting techniques of “folk medicine” for those pathologies.
In 1984 he specializes in reflexotherapy in Russia. He continues researching at the Institute of Research in Traditional Medicine of the Republic of Vietnam on behalf of the USSR Ministry of Health.
In 1986 Prof. Saidbegov meets for the first time the pioneer of the scientific approach to manual therapy in Soviet Union, Nicolai A. Kassian. Friendship and professional cooperation have been going on since then.
Prof. Dzhalaludin Saidbegov becomes one of the most consistent disciples of the Kassian manual therapy, adopted in the hospital ward he runs. The remarkable success in the cure of various vertebral diseases and the growing fame of the therapy brings an increase in the number of patients from the Soviet Union and from abroad alike, together with attention from the media.
Professor Saidbegov spreads the Kassian treatment in scientific-professional fields at medical conferences and through scientific articles and interviews; while researching in a pharmacological therapy for vertebral diseases. In 1986 he is granted by the URSS State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries, a patent for a “mixture” of medicines for the treatment of slipped discs. That chemical compound (with or without reference to him) is still used in many clinics in the former USSR.
Prof. Saidbegov is author of more than 60 scientific articles, methodological recommendations for G.P.s and monographs.
In 1990 he organizes, with the support of Head of the General Health of Moscow, a specialized ward of neurovertebrology, the first in the city to adopt “alternative” methodologies of treatment. That same year he is invited for scientific cooperation by the Italian Institute for the Quality of Life of Rome, where he had previously consulted in support for patients affected by spine pathologies.
He receives offers for professional cooperation from many countries, Israel, Canada, the USA, and in 1991 he decides to move to Italy where he still lives and works while also travelling around and abroad. After completing exams and a dissertation, he obtains the Italian (European) Masters degree from “La Sapienza” University of Rome. In 1994 he launches a scientific cooperation project with the Major Specialization Institute for WHO G.P.s and in 1997 he is appointed Professor.
In same year Prof. Saidbegov becomes member of the Italian Doctors Association. In 2001 he is invited to attend a course on “Physical medicine and rehabilitation” at the First Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of “La Sapienza” University of Rome. Since then he has given lessons on “Neurological semiotics and rehabilitation” in the university. In 2001 he is appointed member of the Italian Scientific Association of Vertebrologists, part of the European Association of Traumatologists and Orthopedists.
In 1997, he is awarded, among the several prizes for his professional career, the first prize of the Kassian Academic Foundation at the Ukraine Academy of Sciences for National Progress.
Prof. Saidbegov is a strong supporter of scientific research applied to folk methods of treatment – developed by our forefathers – focused on vertebral articular diseases and their treatment. He reported on the subject at a conference at the Italian Senate in 1997. Many articles in magazines and newspaper have been written on his work, in Russia, Italy and other countries.
In 1995 he is appointed academic correspondent for the Natural Sciences Academy of the Russian Federation and academician of the Ukraine Academy of Sciences for National Progress.
In 2004, after completing exams, he obtains an Italian Ph.D. in neurology.
He is a member of the Spine Society of Europe (EUROSPINE). Initially founded at a European leavel, the organization has grown today to a World association specialized in different fields (neurosurgery, orthopedics, neurology and physiotherapy), involved in the study and treatment of the pathologies of the spine. Among the members of this Association there are about 500 of the world’s leading specialists in this field of medicine.
On December 15, 2010 he was elected member of the North American Spine Society (NASS), leading organization in the research and treatment of spinal pathologies.
During his long scientific and medical career, Prof. Saidbegov has met patients from all over the world including artists, intellectuals, politicians and common people.
He is married, with a son and a grandson.
Lavorando in piedi
Chiunque faccia un lavoro in piedi, sia esso pittore, chirurgo, dentista, ingegnere, commesso o una casalinga davanti al tavolo di cucina o al lavello, deve stare attento affinché la sua schiena rimanga dritta. Il carico sulla parte lombare potrà essere diminuito se ogni 15-20 minuti i piedi, alternati, vengono poggiati su un piccolo sgabello o piedistallo (foto 1). Fa bene anche fingere ogni tanto di camminare pur senza muoversi dal posto, inspirare con le braccia tese verso l’alto, inarcando un paio di volte la schiena (foto 2).
foto 1: donna che lava i piatti con poggia piedi
foto 2: donna che alza le braccia di fronte a lavello
Lavorando seduti
Chi svolge un lavoro sedentario come sarta, segretaria, autista, pilota d’aereo, programmatore etc. deve fare in modo che venga mantenuta la curva lombare (lordosi) mentre la schiena deve poggiare bene su una sottile (circa 8-10 cm) traversa dello schienale o cuscinetto. Bisogna sedere con la schiena dritta senza inclinare la testa in avanti o flettere il tronco perché altrimenti molti muscoli, rimanendo tesi, si stancano rapidamente o si intorpidiscono. Chi è di piccola statura deve usare un poggiapiedi. L’altezza della sedia non deve essere superiore alla lunghezza della tibia, mentre la sua profondità non deve superare i due terzi dell’anca. I gomiti devono trovarsi a livello della superficie principale del tavolo. Qualora si debba leggere a lungo bisogna mettere un poggialibro per non dover flettere il tronco in avanti (vedi disegni).
Sollevando pesi
Se dovete alzare o spostare un peso evitate movimenti bruschi con torsione del tronco. Non tenete il peso a braccia tese inclinate in avanti. Non alzatelo stando con le gambe dritte e la schiena flessa (vedi foto 3). Possibilmente distribuitelo equamente tra le due mani (vedi disegni). Anche il bambino va tenuto in braccio in maniera giusta (vedi disegni). Chi porta da giovane delle borse a tracolla pesanti corre il rischio di subire una deviazione della colonna vertebrale dorsale (scoliosi).
foto 3: donna che solleva peso in maniera errata
Le controindicazioni per il metodo sono le affezioni reumatiche (collagenopatie) delle articolazioni della colonna vertebrale, qualsiasi patologia oncologica, le malattie cardiovascolari nel periodo di scompenso, le malattie organiche del midollo spinale, la gravidanza, gravi forme di osteoporosi con rischio di frattura spontanea delle vertebre.
