[Dependence of medical rehabilitation effectiveness of patients with somatic diseases and meteopathology on features of weather-forming factors of the Moscow region].

Unlabelled: Climate change and formation of regional weather features increase both direct (immediate effects of extremal temperature and other weather and climatic anomalies) and indirect (environmental deterioration, etc.) consequences of global climate change. The development of investigations of medical weather assessment, medical and meteorological forecasting system, the use of treatment and preventive measures give the opportunity to prepare for weather biotropic conditions and reduce weather-conditioned exacerbations.

[Modern medical and meteorological assessment of Moscow weather and the effectiveness of non-drug methods of increased meteosensitivity correction in patients with joint diseases].

Unlabelled: Weather is one of the leading negatively acting on the human body factors. Abnormal regimes and extreme hydrometeorological and geophysical phenomena form the most biotropic external conditions that can have a negative effect and provoke weather-related exacerbations in people with chronic non-infectious diseases. Today, the problem of the climatic and weather factors influence acquires a new content and becomes relevant in connection with the global climate change and its regional manifestations.

[The non-medicamentous methods for the prevention and treatment of the patients presenting with neurocirculatory asthenia and concomitant enhanced meteosensitivity].

Objective: The relevance of the problem stated in the title of this article comes from the significant increase in the prevalence of the functional cardiovascular disorders having been documented during the past years especially such as circulatory asthenia that most frequently affects the young people of the working age suffering from the systemic neurogenic imbalance in the organism and can be seriously aggravated by the influence of biotropic weather conditions and be responsible for enhanced meteosensitivity that has negative effect on the quality of life and impairs the effectiveness of the therapeutic interventions.

Aim:  The objective of the present study was to provide the scientifically sound substantiation of the feasibility of the application of the non-medicamentous methods (including the interval hypoxic training and «dry» carbonic baths) for the prevention and treatment of neurocirculatory asthenia complicated by enhanced meteosensitivity and evaluate the therapeutic effectiveness of these approach.

Material And Methods:  A total of 50 patients with the verified diagnosis of neurocirculatory asthenia were recruited to participate in the study.

[The role of climatic therapy in the combined spa and health resort-based treatment of the patients presenting with nonspecific respiratory diseases].

This article deals with the issues related to the role of climatic therapy in the combined spa and health resort-based treatment of the patients presenting with pathology of the respiratory system. The characteristics of climatic health resorts, the effects of various weather factors on the patients with nonspecific diseases of the respiratory organs, and the methods of climatic therapy are discussed with special reference to the physical factors influencing acclimatization and re-acclimatization as well as the prevention of meteopathic reactions. Much attention is given to the indications and contraindications for the referral of the patients with the above health problems to the local spa and health resorts facilities.

[The role of physiobalneotherapy in the prevention of weather-dependent exacerbations in the patients presenting with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

The present publication presents the available data concerning the mechanisms of the development of enhanced meteosensitivity in the patients presenting with chronic broncho-obstructive pulmonary pathology with special reference to the characteristics of the most important biotropic weather factors acting on the population of the Moscow region. The possibility is substantiated for the introduction of non-medicamental methods (such as gas-air sodium dioxide bathtubs, whole body bathtubs with the use of mitofen preparations, and interval hypoxic trainings) into the prophylactic programs designed to prevent weather-dependent exacerbations of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.