[The effectiveness of complex medical and psychological rehabilitation of women in the menopausal period].

Unlabelled: Methods enhancing of women health restoration in the menopausal period is constrained by insufficient knowledge and, therefore, poor consideration of psychological factors in rehabilitation programs. The role of psychophysiological and psychotherapeutic methods for building a personalized program of health improvement for women in the climacteric period and increasing the effectiveness of rehabilitation treatment remains underestimated.

Objective: Study of the complex medical methods' effectiveness and psychological rehabilitation of patients during menopause with the use of psychophysiological programs and certain psychotherapy techniques.

Experience of the implementation of felt therapy classes (using of non-spun wool in the art therapy process) while working with the emotional state of patients of the FSBSI "National Medical Research Center for Rehabilitation and Balneology".

The article describes some psychological peculiarities of the work with the emotional state of patients and one of the possible ways to correct it using art therapy - felt therapy, (the use of non-spun wool in an art therapy process). In the article are described the possibilities of this material and the effects of its use. The main tasks of the work are the formation of a conscious attitude to the disease, the recognition of the "secondary benefits" of having a "symptom", the actualization, awareness and replenishment of the spectrum of internal resources, the evolution of the ability to gain the access to them, as well as the integration, acceptance of the "symptom" and the suffering part of the personality, the acceptance of the diversity of one's own "I".

[The use of an electrosleep method for restoring the performance capacity and relieving the psychoemotional stress of athletes in cyclic sports].

44 boat-racing sportsmen entered the study which aimed at elucidation of electric sleep action on restoration of muscular performance and relief of psychoemotional stress. The electric sleep procedures were found to stimulate regeneration processes, improve cardiovascular function and myocardial contractility, normalise arterial and capillary tonicity, to potentiate muscular performance and aerobic power of the body.

[The use of apparatus-supported physiotherapy for the accelerated recovery and enhancement of sports performance].

The effects of physiotherapeutic factors such as electric sleep, sinusoidal modulated currents. UV radiation, interference currents, decimeter waves, laser radiation were studied in 600 sportsmen active in cyclic and acyclic sports. Recommended are both single and course procedures because the above factors are found to diminish immunodeficiency and to increase muscular performance in sportsmen.

[The use of balneological factors to accelerate the recovery of physical work capacity in athletes].

The effects of balneological factors on cardiovascular system, external respiration, muscular performance, neuromuscular system and blood biochemistry give grounds to believe that inclusion of these factors in one-year training cycle extends the armery of effective tools recovering and improving muscular performance, preventing diseases and traumas in sportsmen.

[The differential use of electrosleep for restoring the work capacity of athletes].

A comparative study has been made of the effects which might be produced on body functions of athletes by electric sleep. The induction of the sleep was conducted using square electric pulses with 10 and 100 Hz frequencies. The latter frequency (8-10 sleep procedures) stimulated the examinees somatically and psychologically, whereas electrotherapeutic sleep procedures at 10 Hz displayed sedative effects and thus were indicated for overstrained sportsmen and in some diseases.

[The effect of interference currents on the functional status and physical work capacity of athletes].

The authors studied 90 patients going in for cyclic and acyclic sports. All of them were exposed to interference currents given according to the segmentary technique. It was established that such treatment promoted cardiovascular recovery as well as that of neuromuscular system, enhanced physical performance, corrected impaired levels of catecholamines.