Dr. Alex Popelansky M.T., M.D.(Russia), Ph.D. - President of Orthopedic Neurology Research Fund, Vice-President of Global Vertebroneurology Association. Dr. Popelansky pioneered scientific collaboration and professional schooling of the Manual Medicine for physicians in the former U.S.S.R. at the first ever in the history of medicine Department of Vertebrogenic Diseases of Nervous System at Kazan Medical Advanced Academy. Dr. Popelansky was on a faculty of this department as a Professor of Neurology and Spinal Neurology between 1980 and 1999 when he immigrated to the U.S. For two decades, Dr. Popelansky instructed countless numbers of generalists and specialists in the fields of surgery, internal medicine, ob/gyn, and other fields from around the former Soviet Union. Besides Russia, Dr. Popelansky’s disciples are currently practicing medicine in Europe, United States, Canada, and Israel.

After completing his medical training and neurology residency at the Medical University of Kazan in 1973, Dr. Popelansky joined the neurology faculty at the Regional Hospital and at the University Hospital of the Republic of Tatarstan. In 1979, he received a Ph.D in Neurology from the Federal Spinal Neurology Medical Center of Science, Kazan, Russia. From 1973 until present, Dr. A. Popelansky has published more than 140 articles, methodical and instructional reviews, monographs and textbooks. He is an inventor of 15 Modern Methods of Efficiency. Many of his publications have a foreground status in clinical syndrommology, physical examination methodics, and treatment.

Dr. Alex Popelansky has worked out the “Vibrating Electrophysiological Vertebrogenic Encephalopathy Test" Three Cervical Spinal Levels Symptom Complexes have been distinguished and scrutinized in detail by the author. He has also brought out and diagrammatically formalized Cervical Vertebral All Segment Sclerotome Innervations Intercommunity between disk and circumjacent structures. He was first to describe the new disease process, Intervertebral Periartrosis, as one of the causes of headache, neck and back pain, as well as myodystonic and autonomic vascular reactions. The author has pointed out the Entrapment Iliopsoas Myogenesis of the Femoral and Obturative Neuropathies. He has also clinically discerned Suprascapular, Latero-thoracal, Cocso-Femoral, Abdominal, Medio-Gluteal Locomotor Patterns, and the Thoracogenic variant of Brachial Paraesthesia. He has drawn around frames of Anomaly Kimmerle neuropathological manifestation. Doctor A. Popelansky has elaborated majority of Quantitative Indexes that make many spinal neurology symptoms objective. He has performed the Forward Differential Diagnosis on the basis of Fixing – Algesic Dissociations of the Vertebral Syndrome Components.

Voluntary article about Independent Manual Therapist Working Complications had tuned out to be vanguard and became the motive and example for subsequent route of similar scientific observations in the country. His publications about the use of Manual Therapy in the cases of tumors, fractures, inflammatory processes, anchiloses, and fusions have opened alternative scope of the well-known grandiose method. Dr. Popelansky completed proceedings towards perfecting the accepted and establishing the own unorthodox Manual Tractional Technique and Self-Therapy. Giving plenty of attention to physical therapy, infiltrations, blockades, injections, fasciotomy, applications, Stretch and Spray, and other efficiency increasing manipulative techniques, A. Popelansky constantly has been using these methods in practice – his main scientific exploratory resource. With co-authors, Vertebrogenic Peroneal Neuropathy, Toxic Stenosolia Syndrome have been described, Vertebral Artery Syndrome experimentally modeled. Dr. Alex Popelansky is an initiator of the idea, evidence, and verification of the Emotional – Olfactory Integration.

After immigration, Dr. Popelansky has been developing and approving the Original Manual Correction Help of the Myotonic Syndrome in the abstinent period of narcomania. While in the United States, Dr. A. Popelansky learned a special set of Spine and Posture Pathology Diagnostic and Treatment Methods in Pettibon Spinal Biomechanics Institute in Tacoma, WA while he was working in Spinal Rehabilitation Clinic in Kent, WA.