Biography Anatoly Epifanov

Anton Vyacheslavovich Epifanov - neurologist, doctor of sports medicine. Always at first the question of where you come from and how you decided to become a doctor. Epifanov: I was born in St. Petersburg, the school was finishing in Togliatti, my military father, so the family often moved around the country. My mother is from Khabarovsk, my grandmother from Kostroma, father from Tatarstan, but I turned out from St.

Petersburg laughs. At school, I always liked biology, we can say about me that interest in ants won my interest in girls. I often participated in biology Olympiads and thought that I would act on the biofac, but I always dreamed of entering a medical one. It was not easy with medical, because there was a big competition there, and now it was also necessary to make some small cash contribution, but there was no money in my family even for this small contribution.

Therefore, I submitted documents for the biofac and for any fireman submitted documents to the medical. Representative of the BTL: And there were doctors among relatives? Epifanov: There were some orderlies along the paternal line, but there are no doctors. In general, I was overwhelmed on the biofac, and I could not go there. Imagine, I have a silver medal about graduation and victory at the Olympiads, and I do not enter the biofac.

Now, of course, I think this happiness, thank God that I did not go there, but then it was a tragedy. I remember that my answer was told to me that I am answering incorrectly, but I tell them, how is it from such and such a textbook, I call them to the page, but they tell me that this is the wrong textbook. In general, they ask me where I submitted the original documents, I say that in the medical, well, I was sent there from this biofac.

In general, I pass exams and go to the healing of the Samara Medical University. I began to study and since there was little money, I got a job as a cleaner and a loader to the store where I rented an apartment, but it quickly dawned on me that you could work immediately by profile, for example, a orderlies. I got a job as a orderly at the clinic of traumatology and orthopedics and began to dream of becoming a traumatologist-surgeon.

In the second year, I thought that you can take massage courses and work as a masseur, we went through these courses with my friend and began to work immediately to masseurs. There was a year in the yard, it turns out I have an experience of massage 21 years. So I began to do a massage at home, at first not rich people, then rich, from there there was already an interest to do not just massage, but to lose weight of people, and this also began to turn out, of course, the patients were different who was sitting on beer with crayfish, laughing.

The massage began to turn out at a high level, so you are already doing not just massage, but you begin to dig in, find trigger points, study what it is and how to eliminate them, then I started the YouTube channel, where I began to tell about it, and in the comments they wrote to me that I did not know anything about the same triggers, although I seemed to study this topic thoroughly.

But it was already later. At the university, I managed, in addition to the massage therapist, to work with a nurse, an ambulance paramedic and was still on duty in intensive care, where I, in fact, was disappointed in surgery and began to lean towards neurology. Then, in neurology, I was also disappointed, because people who come with neurological diseases, to the regret, have been led by a very pernicious way of life, did not follow health at all and what happened to them, these are severe consequences of a neglected state of health, and we cannot cure the consequences without changing their lifestyle, and it is very difficult, then it is terribly more expensive and even terribly that a person is expensive that a person No one will support these changes.

Therefore, in a sense, neurology is a dead end. Yes, we have rehabilitation of various kinds, including after a stroke, but it proceeds extremely poorly. Especially a lot of such patients for the New Year, it happens to such that people are scolding their elderly relatives for holidays in any rehabilitation centers, and they themselves go somewhere to hang out.

Therefore, for myself, I chose the direction of neurology, which is still engaged in recovering people. This is orthopedic neurology, neuropathy, well, rehabilitation. When the patient is up to 40 years old, then it is time to change the lifestyle and then carefully monitor your actions in relation to our own body and then we will have no complaints by the age of years, and we will retain the quality of life.

Representative of the BTL: As far as I know, you are actively involved in and playing sports. Epifanov: I must say that I have been involved in sports since childhood, I have been engaged in ballet, choreography for 8 years, and after that I began to spend a lot of time in the gym. Power lifting has already begun to seriously engage in the institute because I was called to the institute team.

And it was there that I have acquired enough injuries that I still tell people about how they are being treated. You know, probably, this story that I recently torn off triceps, well, this was another 2 year of the university, I weighed 57 kilograms then and at the same time I pulled a triceps 60 kilograms.I had an injury to the thoracic region, shoulder injury when squeezing on the bars, that is, I collected all my injuries then and all my injuries today, these are the consequences of that way of life laughs.

In general, we need to pay less attention to various changes in the body, because it is inevitable, we are aging. Worst of all, when the hypocenomy is observed, it is of course scary, that is, the body, so it is aging, and we also do not function as it should, it is bad, very bad. Grandfather is 75 years old and tells me how he plays hockey with summer, manages to push everyone on the box there.

What do you think he has no arthrosis? That's how it should. Epifanov: There was a desire to share the finds, I made blockade, did a lot. Then he worked with Professor Kruglov Valery Nikolayevich, he was strongly tuned in this matter and noticed that doctors did not do this in other clinics, did not do at all, neither pear -shaped, nor sacred, nor rookies.

I thought that you need to record the video so that people would watch and also start to do it. So I shot the first videos and found that the number of views exceeded the thousand today on the YouTube channel I have a little more than a million subscribers, on Instagram thousand. The production of content occupies a significant part of my working time: it is important to constantly study the material, select, structure, analyze what others do.

Here I will say such a thought, frank that I, of course, are smart in the topic that I am talking about, about the spine, for example, but I should get into a society where they talk about other topics, for example, about classical literature, I understand that I am completely stupid here, I can devote so little time to read something else, I read only medical literature, in general, I’m such a somewhat narrow-minded person, I think this is terribly laughing.

Representative of the BTL: How did your acquaintance with physiotherapy happen? Epifanov: Well, when I started working in the hospital, there was a simple Soviet physiotherapy: stream-1, amplipuls and other similar devices. So we regularly used them, then in the Samara sanatorium, we also used a lot of physical methods, so I understood that physi -equipment is able to transmit energy no worse than a massage therapist, if it is expressed in Joules, it will be equal, or even more in favor of physiotherapy.

Moreover, physiotherapy can have a very directed and deeper effect than can be achieved with hands.

And I'm not even talking about pharmacology, when people constantly drink some pills and physiotherapy can well replace many of them. Recently, there was a case of a young patient of 35 years old kidney cancer, it turned out that he simply constantly took anti -inflammatory drugs with migraines. It should not be frivolous to the tablets, I have a friend a little falls asleep, begins to prick antibiotics, well, this is what tremendous harm to the body, these are serious drugs.

So physiotherapy can seriously reduce the pharmacon, it can anesthetize, and change tissues, the structure of tissues. Moreover, this effect can be both at once and having a delayed action, after a few months. Representative of the BTL: And with all this, there are quite a few skeptics of physiotherapy, what would you tell them in defense of physiotherapy? Epifanov: Now there is such a paradigm among doctors that when they read evidence -based medicine, research, they relate to this not as a recommendation, but as an axiom.

Evidence medicine follows the path of clinical practice and, leaving the best, rejects everything unnecessary, however, it is impossible to disclose the experience of individual doctors and our own, when we see that some things are very effective. Suppose I work with the trigger point of the pure muscle, the patient barely suffers pain, here there are tears, but there is ultrasound, there is a TR TRAR device from them not at discomfort, and the effect will be even better.

Another example, an elderly person, he has a pathology in a knee, prone to a edematous syndrome, a little touch, the vessel will burst at once, a laser may come to our aid. Another example, the problem is in the neck or lower back, the pathology lies at a depth of see. Here is such a story. And the pills are already in an extreme case, when the pain is 9 out of 10 points, when it is impossible to fall asleep at night.

Another important idea, we want to change the tissue, improve it, for example, I have arthrosis of the thumb, because I rubbed other people's trapezoidal muscles for 8 hours, and there the tissue has changed in the joint, there is clearly there is a subchondral sclerosis, there is an uneven cartilage, most likely there are spur and nearby tendons are also changed, and so to return the fabric at least distinctly approximately close to the original The state, the first thing you can do is mechanical exercises, from this it will be functionally strong and the fabric will be ready to withstand the load, which can be done more, I will say that the fabric pills do not change, like massage, it turns out only physiotherapy is possible that can produce directed inflammation and microtraumatic with the effect of superpolation, for example, focused or radial wave.After mild inflammation, there will be good healing, so I force these fabrics to rebuild for the better or, for example, the TR apparatus changes the structure of collagen fibers and so any physii -apparatus.

And the pills, in fact, remove the acute condition, but do not treat anything. As one of the greats said: while nature treats, the doctor dances for the patient. Conference BTL, Synergy of Technologies. Report A. immediately an example, until they have gone. Then a nurse worked for us and she had a sick knee, she came to me to stab Diprospan because she needed a quick effect: patients, reports, etc.

I immediately told her that with this approach the knee could completely destroy, suggested making a laser. Literally 2 sessions and she began to say that the pain was gone, everything passed. A striking and simple example when drugs are not needed. Representative of the BTL: What happened then? Epifanov: And then I opened my clinic in Samara, the order of apt. I immediately had physiotherapy, I no longer imagined my medical practice.

First of all, it is of course shock-wave therapy, because it is super-efficient, I think it is impossible not to see its effectiveness. For a masseur, I think UVT is needed first of all, so as not to break your hands, and the effect is much higher. But, I’ll say right away that physiotherapy should not stand, so they buy it when they have already learned to treat people laugh when there is a stream of patients.

Separately, I want to say, about the focused UVT BTL FSWT, it is just an incredible device: it beats deeply, it does not cause tinnitus and this allows me to treat my neck, hip joint and facetal syndrome of the lumbosacral muscle. I really like the laser, because this is a focused flow of energy at the right point to the desired depth, I find an optical window and a candle right into the joint - this is a biological catalyst.

This device perfectly treats headaches, pain between the shoulder blades, sports injuries, and in general trigger syndrome, that is, it is a restructuring of connective tissue, which is now written in many studies. I really like the Emsella chair, I think we are now actively engaged in chronic pelvic pain syndrome, together with gynecologists. I can say about BTL SIS that we have many patients for massage: articular pain, royshold syndrome, impaired muscle balance and hypodynamia, but it happens, quite often, massage to the patient is contraindicated: Bursis, a hernia, a tendency to edematous syndrome in the joint, you never know what it can go wrong.

Therefore, SIS is an acute phase and any risky conditions where massage is contraindicated, that is, the effect of a high intensity magnet we get exactly the same. I also really like electrotherapy, I hope that in the very near future I will have your BTL Premium device. Today you have many followers, doctors are trying to copy your methods. Epifanov: Thank you for saying that it laughs about it.

In general, we are cool guys - this is true. The word resorption itself was before us, but it was we who introduced it in the form of practice, in the form of a method, so much that the whole Internet is buzzing about this today. At conferences, sometimes I come across people who say that they were engaged in this very resorption 20 years ago. Of course, this is not so, there was nothing like this 20 years ago.

We changed the paradigm itself, because everyone is accustomed to treat the spine with anti -inflammatory tablets and blockade, but the fact is that the process of resorption itself is very slow, and the drugs slow down even more and it is completely impossible to get a full result. I have repeatedly watched as a person does not pass in the anti -inflammatory treatment of a hernia.