[Interference therapy in children with birth injuries of the brachial plexus].

The effect of interference waves on natal injuries of the brachial plexus was studied in 31 patients. Positive trends were observed in muscular tone and performance, motor activity of the affected joints. Effectiveness of a course interference therapy reached 84.

[The organizational status and tasks of sanatorium-health resort treatment and health promotion for children suffering as a result of the Chernobyl catastrophe].

Al the Ukrainian Research Institute of Childhood Health-Resortology and Physiotherapy, more than 1000 children who became victims of the Chernobyl disaster were studied for their health status and time-related indices of same under the influence of the chief health-resort factors with the aid of the present-day clinical-and-laboratory, immunobiochemical, neurophysiological and radioimmunoassay techniques. The efficacies of the instituted therapies (87.9%) suggest that the above children may derive benefit from treatment at the Yevpatoriya health resort, with improvement of their health being consequent upon it.

[A spectral analysis of the cardiac rhythm in children with cardiovascular diseases living in areas under radiation control].

Spectral analysis of cardiac rhythm has determined characteristics of humoral, sympathetic and parasympathetic regulation in children with cardiac abnormalities and thyroid hyperplasia. The examinees demonstrated low activity of humoral immunity, high sympathetic influences, slight variability of frequency-amplitude characteristics. Sanatorium treatment improved regulation of cardiac activity.