ABSTRACT
This manual for physicians describes a system for the treatment of primary and secondary vibration disease in mining workers optimized for the duration of therapy including the application of preformed and natural factors. The efficacy of the proposed complex of therapeutic and preventive measures in this category of patients has been estimated based on the results of retrospective and prospective studies.
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Balneology/methods , Health Resorts , Mining , Occupational Diseases/prevention & control , Primary Prevention/methods , Secondary Prevention/methods , Humans , Russia , Time FactorsABSTRACT
Multi-year follow-up of 358 workers of aluminum pot rooms, including 165 individuals suffering from fluorosis, has shown significant changes in the clinical picture of the chronic occupational fluorine intoxication, developed under modern conditions of production, at lower concentrations of fluorine compounds in the air of working area. In this connection, the pathology of the musculoskeletal system plays the dominating role in this clinical picture and has the large variability of combinations of the individual sections destructions of the bone tissue. The main criterion to establish the phase of the disease is still the number and severity of the signs of this destruction. The visceral pathology in contemporary production circumstances is registered with less frequency and loses a number of the previously described clinical manifestations, however, is still of some importance to identify the early signs of the disease and to prevent the dental fluorosis on time.
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Bone Diseases , Fluoride Poisoning , Fluorine Compounds/toxicity , Occupational Diseases , Occupational Exposure/prevention & control , Adult , Air Pollutants, Occupational/toxicity , Aluminum , Bone Diseases/diagnosis , Bone Diseases/epidemiology , Bone Diseases/etiology , Bone Diseases/physiopathology , Bone Diseases/prevention & control , Chemical Industry , Early Diagnosis , Electrolysis/adverse effects , Electrolysis/methods , Female , Fluoride Poisoning/diagnosis , Fluoride Poisoning/epidemiology , Fluoride Poisoning/etiology , Fluoride Poisoning/physiopathology , Fluoride Poisoning/prevention & control , Fluorosis, Dental/etiology , Fluorosis, Dental/prevention & control , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Occupational Diseases/diagnosis , Occupational Diseases/epidemiology , Occupational Diseases/etiology , Occupational Diseases/physiopathology , Occupational Diseases/prevention & control , Retrospective Studies , Russia/epidemiology , Severity of Illness IndexABSTRACT
The present study included 67 patients who had been exposed to the impact of inorganic fluoride compounds. It demonstrated beneficial effect of magnetolaser therapy in combination with whole body iodine-bromide-sodium chlorine baths, physical exercises, and massage on clinical manifestations of the primary disease and concomitant pathologies. Simultaneously, metabolic processes in the articular cartilage and bone tissue were normalized, lipid peroxidation was improved and optimization of antioxidative protection achieved. These changes are indicative of high therapeutic efficiency of the combined treatment employed in this study and its favourable influence on the quality of life of the patients.
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Air Pollutants, Occupational/toxicity , Fluorides/toxicity , Low-Level Light Therapy/methods , Magnetic Field Therapy/methods , Occupational Diseases/therapy , Occupational Exposure/adverse effects , Osteoarthritis/therapy , Humans , Lipid Peroxidation/radiation effects , Male , Middle Aged , Occupational Diseases/chemically induced , Occupational Diseases/radiotherapy , Osteoarthritis/chemically induced , Osteoarthritis/radiotherapy , Quality of Life , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
The study in 727 workers exposed to inorganic fluorine compounds revealed through ultrasound densitometry changes in fluorine excretion and bone tissue density in accordance with the length of service, through markers of bone destruction and synthesis features of bone remodelling were specified.
