The Kuznetsov Iplicator is a means of reflexotherapeutic influence on the human body. Most often, many “roses” with spikes are attached to a flexible/fabric backing, which apply pressure to the area.
Firstly, the creator himself (Ivan Ivanovich Kuznetsov) called it an applicator (needle applicator), and later people spat on the authorship and began to call it an Applicator.
Secondly, it was not he who invented it, but before him. After looking at Chinese acupuncture, he decided to make something similar from needles for his own treatment after a lung burn.
And third , the author of the applicator was not a doctor.
However, the copy turned out to be very successful and allowed him to patent his invention.
Based on the degree of impact, they are divided into 4 types:
- Green – has the most delicate effect and is suitable for people with sensitive skin, does not have magnetic inserts;
- Blue – has sharper needles, the effect on the skin is less gentle, but due to this the effect is more pronounced, does not have magnetic inserts;
- Yellow - the sharpness of the needles is similar to the blue version, but in addition to this there is a magnetic insert that enhances the effect of the applicator;
- Red - completely repeats the green version and, just like the yellow type of applicator, has a magnetic insert in the middle;
Kuznetsov applicators: how to use?
First, let's understand the basic concept. Applicator or Kuznetsov applicator? The author himself, the developer of this product, Ivan Ivanovich Kuznetsov, called it “applicator”, but the people stuck with “applicator”. Therefore, you can call it an applicator or an applicator - they are the same thing. Kuznetsov's applicator is a massage mat with small plastic spikes for influencing biologically active points of the body. Aimed at relaxing muscles and improving blood circulation. The effect of use is similar to acupuncture and reflexology.
The Kuznetsov applicator is used to massage the head, back, neck, feet, palms and other parts of the body.
TYPES OF KUZNETSOV APPLICATOR
- Fabric mat with spikes
- Roller – the shape is perfect for the neck, for example, for cervical osteochondrosis or headaches (it is worth noting that the Salamat network of orthopedic salons offers an acupuncture massage roller with a memory effect)
It is recommended to use the “mat and roller” complex - together they provide the best therapeutic and preventive results.
BENEFITS OF KUZNETSOV APPLICATOR
- Has a rejuvenating effect, the skin becomes firmer and more elastic, helps relieve muscle tension
- Restores impaired metabolism
- Well-being improves, sleep normalizes, insomnia disappears, immunity increases
- Wound healing and restoration processes are accelerated
- The functioning of the circulatory system is restored
- Helps relieve various types of pain
APPLICATION OF THE KUZNETSOV APPLICATOR
The Kuznetsov mat can be used for good rest after a busy day, as a relaxation after sports and fitness, as well as for relieving pain in the following diseases (during treatment or as their prevention):
- Osteochondrosis
- Radiculitis
- Arthritis and arthrosis
- Neuralgic diseases
- Headache
- Varicose veins
- Stomach or intestinal colic
- Gynecological diseases
- Flat feet and many other diseases
HOW TO USE THE KUZNETSOV APPLICATOR
When using the Kuznetsov applicator, hygiene must be observed. It is advisable that one person use one product. Otherwise, treatment with an alcohol solution after each session is recommended. The massage mat can be used in various ways: lying, standing and sitting. The method of use depends on the area of the body that needs to be affected.
The most common way to use it is to lie on the mat with your whole body, changing position after some time (for example, first your back, then your legs), you can do slow rolls from one side to the other. For headaches and general fatigue, it is recommended to use the applicator on the neck, back of the head, palms, and feet.
If there are a large number of moles or warts, it is recommended to cover them with a band-aid.
HOW LONG TO LYE ON THE KUZNETSOV APPLICATOR
- The time for one-time use of the Kuznetsov applicator is individual for each person, be guided by your own feelings.
- The approximate duration of the procedure is from 10 to 20 minutes, twice a day (morning and evening).
ANALOGUE OF THE KUZNETSOV APPLICATOR
A modern analogue of the Kuznetsov applicator is the Doctor Redox bed, made of high-quality medical steel. This is the only massage product in the world that promotes the production of electric vitamins.
The resulting electric vitamins stimulate the natural process of stretching, which in turn stretches the spine and protects the entire body from aging. Doctor Redox's lounger is guaranteed to relieve back pain.
WHERE TO BUY KUZNETSOV APPLICATOR
Kuznetsov's applicator is relatively affordable in price, an excellent useful gift for any occasion for your loved ones and colleagues.
You can buy Kuznetsov’s applicator on the Salamat website or in the Salamat network of orthopedic salons.
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The effect of the Kuznetsov applicator on the body. The effect of the rug?
The main function of the Kuznetsov applicator is to influence special points of the body, improve blood circulation, tonify the functioning of all organs and functions of the body, as well as a relaxation effect.
Positive effects include:
- Helps relieve muscle tension from the upper layer of muscles
- Tightens the skin and has a toning effect
- Acceleration of blood and lymph flow in the area of application and, as a result, the ability to recover and wound healing improves, the circulatory system is restored, relieves pain, improves metabolism
How does it affect the body and well-being?
The applicator stimulates increased blood circulation, having a beneficial effect on metabolic processes and tissue regeneration. The therapeutic effect is on the nervous system, which switches to the pain signal from contact of the needles with the skin. Using a massager allows you to achieve the following:
- Improve sleep quality.
- Stimulate blood flow.
- Reduce pain from intervertebral hernias, osteochondrosis, muscle spasms.
- Increase brain performance.
- Increase skin tone.
- Get rid of migraines and other headache symptoms.
- Boost immunity.
Speaking about the benefits and harms of the Kuznetsov applicator, most users note only a positive effect. Negative manifestations from the massager can only occur if the conditions of use are violated - exposure to affected skin, excessive pressing of needles.
Prices for the Kuznetsov Applicator:
They vary from 100 rubles and end at tens of thousands.
It is important to understand that the effect of an applicator for 500 rubles and an expensive pranamat for 10,000 rubles is identical in essence. It’s just that there is still a markup on the quality of materials, additional things (like a foam layer that is not necessary), more beautiful needles and other rubbish that has no effect on the effect.
Sometimes magnets and other effects not confirmed by medicine are added. But people believe in ALMAG, which means some will buy it here too.
Types of applicators
What does the simplest Kuznetsov applicator look like? This is a rug on which plastic spines are glued or sewn. Previously, in Soviet times, the Kuznetsov applicator was sold in boxes, “in bulk.” You had to sew the spines yourself onto a thick fabric, such as flannel or calico. Currently, rugs can already be purchased in any shape and size. Also, Kuznetsov’s applicator is glued to orthopedic pillows for massage of the cervical spine.
The length and configuration of the spikes, as well as their number, the pitch between them are selected in such a way as not to injure the skin or make the painful effect too intense.
A significant difference between Kuznetsov’s applicator and Lyapko’s is that there is no potential difference, or electrochemical gradient. Lyapko applicators are made of various metals, between which weak direct currents can flow. A very thin film of water and sweat covering human skin can be used as an electrolyte. Kuznetsov's applicator is deprived of this part of the effect. The massager is available not only in the form of a mat or pad. It can be made in the form of a roller or cylinder, on which spines are also attached.
There is a Kuznetsov magnetic applicator, where magnets are attached between plastic spines. The ability to create a magnetic field is very small. About the same tension is created by a magnet hanging on your refrigerator. Such mild tension does not affect the body, this is confirmed by numerous scientific studies. Let us remember that when undergoing magnetic resonance imaging, a person is exposed to a thousand times stronger magnetic field, up to values of 2-3 Tesla. However, there is no therapeutic effect from MRI. It can be performed even on pregnant women.
Analogues of the Kuznetsov applicator:
- The Lyapko applicator is almost the same. Only a different type of needle and material (but at least Lyapko was a doctor by training)
- The Sadhu board with nails is the most effective but also the most painful way to solve your health problems (to the best of your ability). Most people are not able to lie down on a board with their backs even for a couple of seconds or stand with their bare feet.
- Chinese acupuncture is an imperishable original. It is extremely difficult to find specialists in Russia. And if you find them, they will be expensive. It is much cheaper to save up for a trip to China (even if you wanted a cheap plane) and undergo a course of procedures in a Chinese clinic.
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Causes of back pain
There are many human health conditions that lead to pain in the spine (back and lower back). Some of them are congenital, like spina bifida, others develop with age (osteochondrosis, spondylosis, spondyloarthrosis, osteoporosis, etc.). However, most of the causes of pain in the spine (back and lower back) in the working population are associated in origin with the same type of physical activity at work (sitting behind the wheel in a car or sedentary work at a computer) and spinal injuries.
Back pain is a kind of retribution of humanity for upright walking, when the greatest load falls on the lumbar spine, which bears the main burden of the weight of the human body. Physical inactivity, poor nutrition, obesity, and stress also have a detrimental effect on the spine.
Back pain can be divided into primary and secondary.
The causes of primary pain are pathologies of the spinal column - dystrophic and functional changes in the joints of the vertebrae, intervertebral discs, muscles, tendons, ligaments.
Secondary pain is associated with traumatic lesions of the spine, tumor and infectious processes, diseases of internal organs, including the pelvic organs, osteoporosis and other pathologies. This is a kind of alarm signal about problems in the body. Low back pain has many causes, not necessarily related to spinal pathology. Particularly common causes of constant lower back pain are benign and malignant diseases of the pelvic organs in women and men (endometriosis, uterine fibroids, dysmenorrhea, inflammatory diseases of the ovaries, lesions of large vessels, kidneys, chronic prostatitis, some diseases of the nervous system).
Common causes of spinal (back and lower back) pain include:
- muscle spasm (acute or chronic);
- protrusion or herniation of the intervertebral disc (with possible pinched nerve);
- degenerative processes of the spine (osteochondrosis, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis);
- Scheerman-Mau disease;
- Bekhterev's disease;
- spinal canal stenosis;
- sacroiliitis (inflammation of the sacroiliac joint);
- arthrosis of the sacroiliac joint;
- arthrosis of the intervertebral joint (spondyloarthrosis), etc.
Lower back pain may occur if you:
- Spend a lot of time driving a car or using a computer.
- Do dynamic physical labor with sudden changes in body position (especially if your specialty involves heavy physical activity).
- You overload yourself in the gym or fitness club. Be extremely careful if you have recently started training!
- Lead a predominantly sedentary or standing lifestyle.
- Are you interested in gardening work?
- You are overweight.
Additional risks for women:
- You are pregnant or have recently given birth.
- Have reached postmenopause, which is predisposing to the development of osteoporosis.
The most common cause of lower back pain is spinal osteochondrosis, which manifests itself as a result of pinching of the nerve roots extending from the spinal cord at one level or another.
Physiotherapy for back pain
Physiotherapy for back pain is a key step in the relief and treatment of pain. It is a necessary component in the prevention of complications, tissue restoration, and inflammation relief. The treatment regimen can use either one technique or several at once to enhance the therapeutic effect.
The use of physiotherapy enhances the effect of almost any medicinal substance, can help shorten the treatment time for acute diseases, reduce the duration of periods of exacerbation of chronic diseases and increase periods of remission.
There are a number of physiotherapeutic procedures used to treat back pain: ultraviolet irradiation, electrophoresis, laser therapy, acupuncture, Lyapko application therapy, physical therapy, massage, balneotherapy, mud therapy and others.
The use of physiotherapeutic treatment for acute pain is contraindicated, since with increased blood circulation, tissue swelling will increase, which will contribute to the severity of the pain syndrome. It is necessary to improve blood circulation after the acute pain has passed and the swelling begins to decrease. This is usually 2-3 days after anti-inflammatory, anti-edematous, analgesic drug treatment has been started.
The use of Lyapko application therapy in the acute period is permitted, but the individual characteristics of the patient must be taken into account. If the pain intensifies, then you need to wait 2-3 days, if it becomes easier, then continue treatment with the applicator.
Treatment of back pain
Considering that the same symptom can be a consequence of various diseases, any treatment should begin with a visit to the doctor and an accurate diagnosis. The insidiousness of back pain is that if you do not consult a doctor and do not eliminate the factor causing it, then it returns again and eventually becomes chronic.
There are acute (lasting up to 10 days) and chronic (lasting more than 3 months) pain, the mechanisms of development of which are fundamentally different. If the basis of acute pain is, most often, real damage to body tissues (trauma, inflammation, infectious process), then in the pathogenesis of chronic pain, changes in the central nervous system, caused by a long-term continuous flow of pain impulses from the damaged organ, come to the fore. With chronic pain, a situation is often observed when there is no real tissue damage, but the pain continues, as if “breaking away” from the original cause of the disease, and becoming an independent disease.
Drug therapy.
To improve the patient’s condition and quickly relieve pain, medications are prescribed in the form of tablets and injections: NSAIDs, painkillers, antihistamines, muscle relaxants, antispasmodics, B vitamins; for severe pain, blockades are prescribed.
Psychosomatics of back pain
Sometimes back pain can be of a psychogenic nature, occurring not after lifting weights, but after suffering emotional stress or a nervous breakdown. Psychogenic pain, unlike neuralgia and myofascial pain syndrome, often intensifies at rest after intense emotional activity and occurs as a result of changes in the functional state of the nervous system.
The spine is an internal core that helps to withstand the blows of fate, the basis of the process of transmitting information that occurs in the human life system. Problems with the spine reflect a lack of support in life from family and friends. You have taken everything upon yourself, you perceive life as an unbearable burden, a constant enduring of hardships.
Each part of the back has its own psychosomatic meaning.
The upper back is responsible for the energy of love. A person feels unloved and tries with all his might to achieve favor and recognition, to earn attention and love. Dislike causes feelings of guilt, resentment, and anger. A person cannot express negativity, so an additional burden falls on his back.
The middle part of the back is hit by grievances and unresolved conflicts. A person is fixated on the past, lives with old grievances.
The lower back is the area that bears the maximum emotional load. Fear about money, how to earn it, how to improve your financial situation, leads to problems with the lower back. People with back pain can often hear the following phrases in conversation: “This is an unbearable burden for me. He put everything on his shoulders. This is my “cross” and I must carry it throughout my life.”
How to help yourself? Before you take on other people's problems, figure out your own life first. We need to restore harmony within ourselves and between ourselves and the world. You need to learn to live for today and enjoy life. Change your worldview, learn to see how the Universe supports and takes care of you throughout your life.
You can practice self-hypnosis. Write yourself a list of affirmations - short phrases containing a verbal formula that, when repeated many times, reinforce the required image or attitude in a person’s subconscious, helping to improve his psycho-emotional background and stimulating positive changes in life. For example: “I get joy from communicating with relatives”, “Every year I become healthier, I love my body, my health”, “Day and night I receive support in all matters”, etc. Only our attitude towards life turns it into a burden. You need to treat life as a game, learn to take care of your loved ones with a feeling of joy and love.
