[The role of therapeutic exercises in the correction of the static component of the motor stereotype in the patients presenting with cervical myofascial pain syndrome].

The present study was designed to estimate the influence of various modalities of therapeutic exercises on the static component of the motor stereotype in 200 patients presenting with cervical myofascial pain syndrome. The study was performed with the use of computed optical topography. The course of therapeutic exercises included 10 sessions of the total duration of 14 days. It is concluded based on the data obtained in this study that remedial gymnastics based on the understanding of the internal body model ("body scheme") with the use of static symmetric exercises is 2.7 times as effective as the traditional approach.

[Possibilities of correcting adverse effects of anti-arrhythmia agents]. / Vozmozhnosti korrektsiii neblagopriiatnykh éffektov antiaritmicheskikh preparatov.

A hundred and twenty two patients with premature ventricular contractions and paroxysmal tachycardias were comprehensively studied prior to and following treatment regimen with ethacizin, befol, sodium succinate and their combinations. Besides its significant antiarrhythmic activity, ethacizin displayed a number of adverse cardiac effects, such as excessive negative inotropic and dromotropic ones. Befol and sodium succinate in combination with ethacizin can reduce or even eliminate these side effects in rest and during simulated mental stress and graded exercise. The antiarrhythmic effect of the combined therapy preserved or even became stronger. This therapy may be long performed for arrhythmias even in patients with circulatory insufficiency and cardiac conduction disturbances caused or redoubled by ethacizin.