The Role of Autonomic Nervous System in Microcirculatory Disorders in Adolescents with Osteoarthritis

Abstract

A group of 44 adolescents at the age of 15–18 years with osteoarthrosis has been examined. It has been established that most of them were diagnosed with vegetative imbalance, mostly towards sympathicotonia. It was determined that dominance of vegetative nervous system activity has been accompanied by lower parameters of total spectrum power, mostly due to its parasympathetic component, which indicates a low adaptation capacity to disease. Imbalance in vegetative regulation mostly consist of microcirculatory deviations, in particular capillary branches convolution, deviations in diameter of arterial capillaries.

Keywords

• osteoarthrosis
• adolescents
• vegetative support
• microcirculation