[Equipment for electrostimulation of the nervous and muscular systems: investigations, design, and application]. / Apparatura dlia élektrostimuliatsii nervnoi i myshechnoi sistem: issledovaniia, sozdanie i primenenie.

The paper considers the history, the state-of-the-art, and prospects for development of electrostimulation and appropriate equipment. The results of Russian studies and developments in this field are presented.

[Some possibilities of using multi-program electro-stimulators of the functional series Omnistim]. / Nekotorye vozmozhnosti primeneniia mnogoprogrammnykh élektrostimuliatorov funktsional'nogo riada "Omnistim".

The paper presents data on multiprogram microprocess neuromyostimulators of the series Omnistim wherein the time course of changes in the parameters of action is determined by the pattern of changes in the lability of stimulated structures, such as skeletal muscles, smooth muscle organs, sensory conductors, etc. A great deal of programmes (over 100) open up a wide field uses for these stimulators and provide their high efficiency.

[Correction of the breathing in the treatment of bronchial asthma by means of biological feedback]. / Korrektsiia dykhaniia pri lechenii bronkhial'noi astmy metodom biologicheskoi obratnoi sviazi.

The development of nondrug therapies for bronchial asthma (BA) is highly pressing. The application of respiration-correcting methods and means that implement a principle of biological feedback (BFB) is one of the promising lines. To polish procedures for practical work and to evaluate their efficiency, a respiration corrector has been devised, which visualizes a patient's external respiration rhythm and synchronizes it with the reference rhythm whose parameters are set by a physician or by a patient himself. The efficiency of BFB technique was evaluated in the treatment of BA in children. Studies using the device were done 2-3 times a day with 15-20 min in each session. The treatment regime averaged a fortnight. Its application relieved the occurred episode without drugs in most children with mild and moderate BA, prevented attacks and made them fewer, prolonged remission, and reduced the amount of bronchodilatating agents to be used. BFB correction made under the polyclinic setting is indicated for patients with mild and moderate atopic BA in the episode, postepisode, and interepisode periods and contraindicated for patients with severe BA when they have an episode. Treating BA via BFB correction diminishes psychosomatic disorders: anxiety, bronchodilator dependence, fear of a recurrent episode, whining, irritability, and insomnia.

[Methodologic aspects of combined physiotherapeutic effect]. / Metodologicheskie aspekty problemy kombinirovannogo fizioterapevticheskogo vozdeistviia.

The paper describes a conceptually logic and mathematical model of the body's responses to the combined exposure to several physiotherapeutical factors. The model has been developed by transforming the basic differential equation of Volterra's survival theory and realizing as a computer program. The model enables one to find the optimal combinations of the parameters of the influencing factors which produce the maximum therapeutical effect without exhausting the compensatory abilities of the body's physiological systems.