The use of information process indices for the prediction of sympathectomy efficiency in complex regional pain syndrome

Abstract

The key role of information processes for ensuring the optimal sanogenesis in humans was shown by the wavelet-analysis of skin microvascular blood flow oscillations in 64 patients with complex regional pain syndrome after sympathectomy. The early reorganization of information in the trophotropic direction at the level of microvascular tissue systems, and its predominance and preservation along the microvascular networks facilitate optimal adaptive reactions and, as a result, are conducive to maximum treatment efficiency. In these cases, the complete elimination of disease and the achievement of excellent treatment results are possible. The maximum treatment efficiency could not be reached without the above-mentioned informational changes. On the contrary, the predominance and preservation of ergotropic information in the early periods after surgery were unfavorable for the prediction of the clinical outcome of sympathectomy. Tissue sympathectomy is not required for the formation of the trophotropic type of information exchange in microvascular networks; it is enough to achieve a certain threshold of a sympathetic activity decrease. The results obtained may be useful for investigating the physiological mechanisms of informational treatment technologies (homeopathy etc.).