[Predicting the development of vibration disease in coal miners exposed to local vibration combined with noise and dust]. / Prognozirovanie vibratsionnoi bolezni u gornorabochikhpri vozdeistvii lokal'noi vibratsii v sochetanii s shumom i pyl'iu.

The contributors proposed a differentiated diagnostic technique which included 10 most informative physiologic, anthropometric and biochemical+ indices to provide the most reliable data (95% reliability) on the adaptation and compensatory mechanisms under local vibration and in combination with noise and dust, and with due account of the individual sensitivity to local vibration. Testing of the technique demonstrated its high accuracy in determining the levels of "exhaustion", and of "the normal state" of the adaptation-compensatory mechanisms, and its applicability for vibration disease prognosis in individual++ workers, thus establishing corresponding in preventive medical examinations, occupational selection, preventive measures' planning, and in expert solutions requiring precise diagnostic techniques.

[The comparative efficacy of different therapeutic complexes in vibration disease]. / Sravnitel'naia éffektivnost' razlichnykh terapevticheskikh kompleksov pri vibratsionnoi bolezni.

Treatment efficacy was analyzed in 150 miners suffering of vibration disease (stage I). Different treatment complexes were used. Treatment proved most effective in the group where drug therapy was combined with acupuncture, vacuum massage, photoenergotherapy. The authors make a trial to explain the mechanism of action of the preferred method of treatment.