[The effect of physical fitness training with winter seawater swimming on the functional status of the body].

Shifts in thermoregulation of the body leading to increased resistance to diseases were recorded in persons active in winter swimming in sea water. The shifts also involved cardiorespiratory function producing occasional unwanted effects in persons with cardiovascular diseases.

[The physiotherapy of patients with chronic bronchitis].

The efficacy of physiotherapy (induction therapy, microwave irradiation, acupuncture) for chronic bronchitis with obstructive syndrome (254 patients) was evaluated in relation to the disease genesis and the nature of bronchial obstruction by clinical, functional and biochemical evidence. The best results in restoration of the bronchial patency were obtained in patients with transient obstruction of allergic origin. This fact can be attributed to enhancement of the activity of proteinase alpha 1-inhibitor and kininogenase inactivation.

[Various problems in the diagnosis and treatment of the broncho-obstructive syndrome].

Clinico-x-ray-laboratory investigation, bronchoscopy were performed, respiratory function and ECG were studied in 212 patients with different forms of chronic bronchitis. Six groups of patients were defined with relation to the presence or absence of obstruction, its nature (permanent, transient), prevalence (small, medium and large bronchi), genesis of disease (inflammatory, allergic). The characteristics of the groups and their clinico-x-ray, functional and immunological features were presented.

[Non-pharmacological therapy of pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases].

The authors described experience of the use of nonmedicinal therapeutic-rehabilitation methods and complexes on the basis of summarized data on therapy and rehabilitation of patients with nonspecific pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. The main emphasis was placed on physical factors, their peculiarities and general mechanisms of action. Various aspects in the use of physical factors were described: their earliest use in active forms of diseases, an opportunity to prevent negative reactions during therapy and a differentiated use with account of the pathogenetic mechanisms of disease.