[Use of a low-frequency magnetic field in the combined treatment of middle-aged and elderly patients with ischemic heart disease and osteochondrosis of the cervico-thoracic spine]. / Primenenie nizkochastotnogo magnitnogo polia v kompleksnom lechenii bol'nykh ishemicheskoi bolezn'iu serdtsa i osteokhondrozom sheino-grudnogo otdela pozvonochnika v pozhilom i starcheskom vozraste.

The study performed by the authors into the effect of low-frequency magnetic field on coronary heart disease, cervical and thoracic osteochondrosis arising in senile and presenile patients showed the treatment to promote improvement of the heart autonomic regulation and attenuation of ischemic and vertebrogenic pain, to augment response to antiarrhythmic treatment in coronary patients with extrasystoles, to compensate for negatively inotropic effect of propranolol hydrochloride, to increase exercise tolerance.