[Self-evaluation of health state in athletes].

The article covers scientific basis and elaboration of system concerning self-evaluation of athletes' health state. The study comprised 2 steps. During the first step, a group of 62 athletes (45 males and 17 females) performed methods of self-evaluation of health state through a list of changes, tests and stress testing. The second step included processing and generalization of the data obtained and specification of an integral scale of self-evaluation of athletes health state.

[Extracorporeal shock wave therapy in athletes with degenerative and dystrophic disorders of locomotory system].

Degenerative and dystrophic changes of joints and ligaments are among the most prevalent disorders in professional athletes. Specification of a complex system for these diseases is an important task in sports medicine. Extracorporeal shock wave therapy is a modern and highly effective method of rehabilitation.

[Certain features of the speech of patients with parkinsonism]. / Nekotorye osobennosti rechi u bol'nykh s parkinsonizm.

The speech of patients suffering from parkinsonism is usually described on the basis of merely clinical criteria. The author for the first time uses K. M. Steingart's polygraphic method for examining the speech in patients with various clinical forms of parkinsonism. As a result, regularities of the temporal characteristics of the speech were revealed, these regularities being a proof of the fact, that in patients with parkinsonism there are no pronounced disturbances of the higher integrative levels. Intense irradiation on the part of motor functions and changes of vegetative reaction confirm the important role of the functional state of the subcortical structures (of the limboreticular complex) in the pathogenesis of the speech disturbances characteristic of parkinsonism. The study has made it possible to ascertain a number of functional changes in the activity of the brain structures including the speech system.

[Attention disorders in Parkinson disease patients]. / Rasstroistva vnimaniia u bol'nykh parkinsonizmom.

An examination of 100 patients with parkinsonism and 30 control healthy individuals carried out with the use of Hentschel's test revealed a statistically significant lowering of such characteristics as concentration and activity of attention in parkinsonian patients. There were no substantial differences in the degree of those disturbances in patients with different forms of parkinsonism. These changes are, probably, due to disintegration of the activity of various brain systems in the presence of dopamine deficiency.

[Clinico-psychological study of the functions of attention and memory in patients in the early recovery period after reconstructive surgery on the cerebral vessels and their dynamics during treatment with oxygen baths]. / Kliniko-psikhologicheskoe issledovanie funktsii vnimaniia i pamiati u bol'nykh v rannem vosstanovitel'nom periode posle rekonstruktivnykh operatsii na sosudakh golovnogo mozga i ikh dinamika pod vliianiem lecheniia kislorodnymi vannami.

Using psychological methods memory and attention were examined in a control group (normal subjects) and in patients at the early rehabilitation period following reconstructive surgery on cerebral vessels before and after therapy with oxygen baths. The psychological methods of examination were found to be valuable in terms of both diagnosis and assessment of the time-course of the studied parameters at various stages of the treatment. The use of oxygen baths was shown to be effective in disorders of memory and attention.

[Cerebral hemodynamics in the early recovery period after reconstructive surgery on the cerebral vessels during decimeter-wave therapy]. / Tserebral'naia gemodinamika v rannem vosstanovitel'nom periode posle rekonstruktivnykh operatsii na sosudakh golovnogo mozga pod vliianiem detsimetrovolnovoi terapii.

Using REG data, the effect of decimeter electromagnetic wave therapy (DEMWT) on the cerebral hemodynamics was studied in patients in the early recovery period following reconstructive surgery on the cerebral vessels. The results of the study suggest that the use of DEMWT increases considerably the compensatory-adaptive functions of the body and improves significantly the cerebral hemodynamics which is paralleled by the regression of neurologic symptomatology. DEMWT represents a physiological and pathologically-substantiated method for treating the given category of patients.

[Role of ultrasonic dopplerography in monitoring the effectiveness of treatment of patients who have sustained a stroke with decimeter-range electromagnetic waves]. / Znachenie ul'trazvukovoi dopplerografii v kontrole za éffektivnost'iu lecheniia élektromagnitnymi volnami detsimetrovogo diapazona bol'nykh, perenesshikh mozgovoi insul't.

The data on the high therapeutic efficiency of the local use of decimeter electromagnetic waves (DEMW) in stroke survivors are presented (a course of therapy consisted of 10-12 procedures). Doppler sonography proved to be a highly effective method of monitoring the treatment results. The technique makes it possible to ascertain some aspects of the mechanism of DEMW therapeutic action and provides the researcher with complete information on the intensity and the rate of the collateral circulation development.

[Mental functions (memory and attention) and their dynamics during the use of sinusoidal modulated currents by the electrosleep method on patients in the early recovery period following operations on the intracranial arteries]. / Sostoianie nekotorykh psikhicheskikh funktsii (pamiati i vnimaniia) i ikh dinamika pri primenenii sinusoidal'nykh modulirovannykh tokov po metodu élektrosna u bol'nykh v rannem vosstanovitel'nom periode posle operatsii na intrakranial'nykh arterii.

Clinicopsychological studies on memory and attention functions with the help of psychological tests in 34 patients in an early rehabilitation period after operations on cerebral vessels have shown the efficacy of a new method of therapy with sinusoidal modulated currents based on electric sleep methods contributing to the regression of focal neurological symptomatology and improvement of memory and attention functions.

[Cerebral hemodynamics according to the results of REG when using sinusoidally modulated currents in accordance with the electrosleep method during the early recovery period after surgery on intracranial arteries]. / Tserebral'naia gemodinamika po dannym REG pri primenenii sinusoidal'nykh modulirovannykh tokov po metodu élektrosna v rannem vosstanovitel'nom periode posle operatsii na vnutricherepnykh arteriiakh.

On the basis of clinical observations and REG recorded in 50 patients in the early restorative period after operations on intracranial cerebral arteries the author recommends a new effective and pathogenetically substantiated method of treatment--sinusoidal modulated currents (SMC) after the method of electric sleep. SMC promotes regression of the focal neurological symptomatology and increases the intensity of cerebral blood flow, evidence of which is the positive time course of REG values.