[The comprehensive approach to the rehabilitative treatment of junior athletes]. / Kompleksnyi podkhod k vosstanovitel'nomu lecheniyu sportsmenov-yuniorov.

AIM: The objective of the present study was the development of the comprehensive program for the medico-psychological follow-up of the male and female junior athletes (rhythmic gymnastics) with the purpose of stabilizing their hormonal and emotional status, as well as improving sport performances based on the use of modern hardware-software technologies. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The comprehensive examination of 72 female athletes at the mean age of 11.5±0.6 years attending R. Kuznetsov specialized school of rhythmic gymnastics of the Olympic reserve in the city of Seversk has been undertaken on the basis of Tomsk Research Institute of Balneology and Physiotherapy, the branch of Siberian Federal Research and Clinical Centre. RESULTS: The program of comprehensive medical psychological rehabilitation for the junior athletes of either sex engaged in sportive activities requiring precise technical actions has been elaborated. The method of the combined therapeutic treatment included physical exercises therapy, manual massage, dry carbonic bathtubs, psychological activities with the application of biological feedback trainings and cognitive trainings; it was intended for the correction of the hormonal status and the improvement of the psycho-emotional conditions of the athletes. The combined treatment based on the use of the modern hardware-software technologies was shown to promote the restoration and development of the psychophysical and psychological qualities of the male and female junior athletes indispensable for the maintenance of their high readiness for the efficient sports activities at the subsequent stages of the training cycle. In addition, such treatment enhances the adaptation resources of the athletes.

[The clinical and functional rationale for the application of the baths containing the Siberian Stag velvet antler extracts in the rehabilitative treatment of the patients presenting with arterial hypertension and concomitant chronic psychoemothional overtension].

We have developed the method for the treatment of the patients presenting with arterial hypertension and concomitant chronic psychoemothional overtension. The method consists of the application of the baths containing the Siberian Stag velvet antler extracts in combination with exercise therapy and massage. A total of 35 patients with arterial hypertension and concomitant chronic psychoemothional overtension were enrolled in the study. It was shown that inclusion of the baths containing the Siberian Stag velvet antler extracts in the combined treatment of arterial hypertension and concomitant chronic psychoemothional overtension has positive effect on the parameters of the main homeostatic systems, enhances the working capacity of the patients, promotes their psychological stability, and increases the adaptive potential of the organism.

[Electromagnetic fields of extremely high frequency and radon baths in the treatment of Lyme disease with nervous system lesions]. / Elektromagnitnye polia kraine vysokoi chastoty i radonovye vanny v lechenii bolezni Laima s porazheniem nervnoi sistemy.

Patients with borreliosis caused by exodic tick infestation running with affection of the nervous system were exposed to scanning EHF-therapy (59-63 GHz) on biologically active zones of the upper third of the chest, right brachial joint, biologically active points GI4, E36. Also, they took radon baths. The treatment was planned with consideration of the principles of chronotherapy. This therapeutic approach produced stimulation of general adaptive reactions and reparative processes in the peripheral nervous system.

[Application of natural and preformed physical factors during medical rehabilitation in participants of military conflicts]. / Primenenie prirodnykh i preformirovannykh fizicheskikh faktorov u uchastnikov vooruzhennykh konfliktov v protsesse meditsinskoi reabilitatsii.

The authors have performed individually adjusted complexes of balneophysiotherapeutic procedures in soldiers and officers who had taken part in local military conflicts. Functional and biochemical investigations show that in those military who had no wounds but had a weak posttraumatic stress reaction the above complexes are rather effective.