[The medical and psychological support for the child athletes during different periods of the training cycle].

Objective: To study dynamics of the indicators of the hormonal and psychological status as well as psychological features of significance for the sportive performance under conditions of rehabilitative treatment during training and post-training periods in the child athlete engaged in rhythmic gymnastics.

Material And Methods: The study included 42 child athletes at the age from 8 to 15 years engaged in rhythmic gymnastics. The children of the study group (group 1, n=17) received the combined restorative treatment under conditions of regular training while those comprising group 2 group (n=25) were given a similar treatment in the absence of the training load.

[The prognosis for the development of gestoses taking into account the psychophysiological individuality of pregnant women].

Psychophysiological predictors of gestosis have been determined in pregnant women followed up at an antenatal clinic. They typically exhibited anxiety states with increased neuroticism, an introverted personality, impairment of brainstem-subcortical relations due to dysfunctions of nonspecific units of the visceral brain and their activating effects on the normal cortex, exaggerated cutaneous galvanic reflexes. A clinical follow-up of women at an increased risk showed the onset of edematous nephrotic gestosis in 62.