[The effectiveness of comprehensive rehabilitation of the patients presenting with coronary heart disease with the application of underwater shower massage and electrical stimulation].

The underwater shower massage and electrical stimulation were applied to treat 120 patients presenting with coronary heart disease. The estimation of the effectiveness of this treatment with the use of functional diagnostic methods revealed its psychocorrective effect manifested in the form of reduced frequency and duration of painful and painless angina seizures, restricted sympathetic influences on the heart as well as normalized sympathovagal balance, lipid status, antioxidative system, central and peripheral hemodynamics, improved systolic and diastolic function of the myocardium, enhanced tolerability of mental, emotional, and physical workload. The study allowed the predictors of the effectiveness of therapeutic and health-promoting measures to be identified.

[Spa-based water procedures and complications in the course of their performance].

The scope of applications of spa-based water procedures have become considerably extended during the recent years; accordingly, the frequency of complications and accidents has increased. The present review considers the possible mechanisms underlying such complications and various factors promoting their development, such as the patients' age and chronic diseases, the use of pharmaceutical products affecting thermoregulation and cardiovascular function. Special attention is given to the influence of alcohol consumption on the frequency of complications, accidents, and sudden death associated with hyperthermal procedures, the possibility of infectious diseases and measures necessary for their prevention.

[Effect of peloid applications of different temperatures on the function of the cardiovascular system in patients with osteoarthrosis and concomitant hypertensive disease and ischemic heart disease].

This study investigated changes of systemic and intracardiac hemodynamics under effect of mud application at different temparatures (10, 20-24, and 36 degrees C) in patients with osteoarthrosis and concomitant hypertensive disease and coronary heart disease. It is concluded that combined treatment of this condition should include low-temperature peloidotherapy as a major component since it has the most beneficial effect on general and intracardiac hemodynamics.