[The social role of intergenerational sports: the formation of norms, citizenship and the value of a healthy lifestyle].

The article discusses issues reflecting the importance of intergenerational sports as an institution influencing the formation of social values, civic identity, health-saving attitudes, etc. The paper defines the main and specific functions of sport as a social institution. Based on the author's sociological research, the results are presented reflecting the attitude of participants of intergenerational sports groups to certain types of social impact that sports activities and events held in mixed age groups have.

[Debatable issues in the diagnosis of angiotrophic neuropathies of the limbs].

On the basis of their rich personal material and the data in the literature, the authors point out the tendency to relate many types of angiotrophic neuroses to Raynaud's phenomenon disregarding their etiological and pathogenetic factors. Diagnostic errors occur particularly frequently in chronic chilblain of the limbs and its sequelae which are manifested by a characteristic complex of symptoms, successively changing vasomotor reactions in the distal parts of the limbs, the development of vegetative polyneuritis, and in severe cases also by affection of the motor apparatus of the hands. The disease is encountered mostly in workers working in the open air in subnormal temperature of the surroundings.

[Surgical treatment of large and giant postoperative abdominal hernias].

The author suggests a new method for operation in large and giant median abdominal hernias by correction of the disturbed anatomical relations of the rectus muscles by restoring their normal position and creating new sheaths for them from the cicatricial-aponeuritic sheets. The operation was conducted on 17 patients with a good outcome.