[Evaluation of the effectiveness of a universal pneumatic stimulating system as new therapeutic and rehabilitative means for flying personnel]. / Issledovanie éffektivnosti universal'noi pnevmostimuliruiushchei sistemy kak novogo lechebnogo i reabilitatsionnogo sredstva u letnogo sostova.

Therapeutic and prophylactic efficacy of UPS-1600 was evaluated in relation to various types of diseases. The work involved 86 in-patients who were examined and treated in the Central Military Scientific Research Aviation Hospital. 66% of the patients exhibited a positive therapeutic effect of pneumo-massage combined with the routine methods of treatment. The best results of pneumo-stimulation were observed in patients with varicosity in subcutaneous veins of the lower extremities, hypotonic neurocirculatory dystonia, and in the presence of fatigue. In the running wave mode, UPS-1600 accelerates the process of blood evacuation out of the venous and lymphatic beds in lower extremities, intensifies blood circulation in these regions thus in-loading partly the "peripheral heart". The method of pneumo-stimulation and pneumo-massage of lower extremities was recommended as a therapeutic and preventive means of as medical rehabilitation of flying personnel, so treatment of various nosological forms of diseases.