Ballistocardiography in sanatorial and health resort rehabilitation of patients after myocardial infarction.

A sanatorial and health resort rehabilitation was carried out in patients after myocardial infarction. The rehabilitation program included exercise therapy and carbonic acid baths. The ballistocardiographic studies conducted with a diagnostic purpose indicate that carbonic acid balneotherapy may be used in patients after the third month following the onset of myocardial infarction. Clinico-physiological investigations indicate that ballistocardiography may serve to control the effectiveness of sanatorial and health resort rehabilitation and to determine the mechanism of action of the physical factors involved.

Gammacardiographic and ballistocardiographic comparison of indices of central haemodynamics and the myocardial contractile functional state in patients with coronary heart disease.

A complex ballistocardiographic and gammacardiographic investigation was carried out in 62 patients with coronary heart disease; ballistocardiographic and gammacardiographic indices have been compared. We established pathologic ballistocardiographic changes, which indicate a disturbance of the myocardial contractile function. Considerable changes of central haemodynamics, studied by means of gammacardiography, were recorded. There is a relationship between ballistocardiographic indices of the myocardial contractile function and radiocardiographic indices of central haemodynamics.