ABSTRACT
Extracorporeal exposure to LG-79 He-Ne laser of 12 mWt power was used in 57 patients hospitalized at the intoxication reanimation department with acute poisonings with psychotropic drugs. The clinical result was a decrease of the incidence of pneumonia in the patients with x-ray signs of venous congestion from 52% among those administered to physiochemotherapy to 24% after this treatment modality. Laser hemotherapy brought about a temporary normalization of the erythrocyte membrane permeability, which was changed biophysically by means of a diffractometer. Red cell aggregation was approximating the norm, decreasing by 20%, and platelet aggregation decreased by 17%. Analysis of the results brought as to a conclusion that He-Ne laser exposure is an effective source of singlet stimulation of molecular O2 evenly dissolved in the blood, which causes resonance oscillations of water difields. This leads to membrane depolarization, which is probably responsible for purification of polarized membranes from toxic agents fixed by them.
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Blood Transfusion, Autologous , Blood/radiation effects , Extracorporeal Circulation , Laser Therapy , Psychotropic Drugs/poisoning , Acute Disease , Biophysical Phenomena , Biophysics , Cell Membrane Permeability/radiation effects , Combined Modality Therapy , Erythrocyte Membrane/radiation effects , Humans , Pneumonia/blood , Pneumonia/etiology , Pneumonia/therapy , Poisoning/blood , Poisoning/complications , Poisoning/therapy , Pulmonary Edema/blood , Pulmonary Edema/etiology , Pulmonary Edema/therapyABSTRACT
The authors review primary mechanisms of action of low-intensity laser radiation used in physiotherapy. The hypothesis suggested by the authors allows one to compare efficacy of bioenergetic action of electromagnetic radiation varying in ranges, of therapeutic lasers, in particular. However, animal experiments have shown greater than bioenergetic action efficacy of the mechanism used by the nervous system in response to laser radiation.
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Lasers , Animals , Biophysical Phenomena , Biophysics , Blood/metabolism , Blood/radiation effects , Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation , Energy Metabolism/radiation effects , Humans , Laser Therapy , Physical Therapy ModalitiesABSTRACT
Interference currents used in early treatment of patients with crural fractures accelarated recovery of the limb functions as a result of stimulation of involuntary muscular activity, reduced tissue adema and increased mobility of the ankle joint.
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Electric Stimulation Therapy/methods , Fractures, Bone/rehabilitation , Leg Injuries/rehabilitation , Casts, Surgical , Combined Modality Therapy , Electric Stimulation Therapy/instrumentation , Electromyography , Exercise Therapy , Fractures, Bone/physiopathology , Humans , Leg Injuries/physiopathology , Time FactorsABSTRACT
60 patients surgically treated for acute pancreatitis received postoperative physiotherapy which combined transcutaneous electroneurostimulation with exposure to low-energy laser. The results support the effectiveness of combined physiotherapeutic methods of general and reflex action in severe forms of acute pancreatitis because such physiotherapy early after severe forms of acute pancreatitis because such physiotherapy early after severe pancreatitis surgery promotes the decline of pathological symptoms.
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Pancreatitis/rehabilitation , Physical Therapy Modalities/methods , Postoperative Care/methods , Acute Disease , Cholecystitis/rehabilitation , Combined Modality Therapy , Humans , Necrosis , Pancreas/pathologyABSTRACT
The authors generalized the experience of interference current apparatus application for the treatment of acute disease and trauma in the N.V. Sklifosovsky Scientific and Research Institute for Emergency Medicine (Moscow). A kind of recorder for reading the interfinger electric resistance of patient skin was offered as a biologic feedback to this apparatus aimed at individualized treatment. The values of the "resonance" frequencies shown by the recorder of the biological feedback to the interference current apparatus allow to determine the duration of the refractivity of excitable membranes in patients in the process of the complex treatment.
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Biofeedback, Psychology , Membrane Potentials , Acute Disease , Humans , Skin Physiological Phenomena , Stress, Psychological/physiopathology , Stress, Psychological/therapy , Wounds and Injuries/physiopathologyABSTRACT
An effectiveness of treatment and prevention of ischemic heart disease (IHD) using laser rays and transcutaneous electroneurostimulation (TENS) in 144 patients who underwent myocardial infarction and in whose clinical characteristics of a disease there prevailed chronic painful syndrome, was studied. An analgesic effect of TENS was achieved by an application of TENS to cardiac area and Zakharin-Head's zones. Low-intensity laser rays were applied for both irradiating projections of the heart and the large vessels and irradiating the biologically active points using unique procedure. All patients had a positive clinical effect resulted from applying laser and TENS which appeared as a decreased number of stenocardia attacks, an increased tolerance to exercise and as positive ECG dynamics. Duration of remission in the main group of patients exceeded the remission length in the control group in 2.7 times which is indicative of the effectiveness of using laser therapy and TENS as a tool of urgent medical aid under stresses induced by the development of life-threatening states. Small-size laser and TENS apparatuses are proposed for use as an onboard medical equipment.
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Laser Therapy , Myocardial Ischemia/therapy , Stress, Physiological/therapy , Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Combined Modality Therapy , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Myocardial Infarction/complications , Myocardial Infarction/therapy , Myocardial Ischemia/etiology , Myocardial Ischemia/prevention & control , Remission Induction , Stress, Physiological/complications , Stress, Physiological/prevention & controlABSTRACT
High resolution measurements of helium-neon laser spectra have been conducted about 0.64 mm wavelength. The singlet oxygen photo-generation was demonstrated to be responsible for the bioeffects of this spectral interval. Helium-neon radiation with 0.633 mm wavelength was used for medical rehabilitation of 15 patients with muscular atrophy as a result of wearing immobilizing plaster arm-bends on lower extremity fractures. 50-day hypokinesia of a damaged extremity induced differences in functional indices between damaged and healthy extremities in the same patient. This difference was diminishing more rapidly after laser therapy than in the control group though all patients had adequate rehabilitative treatment. Due to the likelihood of hypokinesia- and weightlessness-induced atrophies, helium-neon laser may be recommended for atrophy prophylaxis and treatment in both cases.
