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A A Ovnanian

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PubMed1987

[Sanatorium-health resort treatment of children with hereditary diseases of the neuromuscular system].

The study was aimed at determining the efficacy of sanatorium treatment of patients with hereditary neuromuscular abnormalities. Sanatorium methods of treatment combined with drug therapy were found to be more effective as compared with outpatient or hospital treatment. The sanatorium treatment proved most effective in children with congenital myopathy, Charcot-Marie neural amyotrophy, and Roussy-Levy polyneuropathy. Improvement in the general status and motor functions was correlated with certain improvement in dynamometric findings, locomotor tests, stabilization of a number of parameters of electroneuromyographic examination, and biochemical findings. The results point to the necessity of setting up specialized departments in childhood neurologic sanatoria or sanatoria specializing in the treatment of children with individual forms of neuromuscular diseases at health resorts which can provide treatment with sulphide waters or therapeutic mud.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1982

[Sanatorium-health resort treatment of patients with progressive neuromuscular diseases].

The efficacy of balneo- and peloidotherapy of 280 children suffering from various forms of progressing myodystrophies was evaluated. A marked improvement was registered in 64%, and an insignificant improvement in 10.5% of the children. To determine the optimal therapeutic combination for one or another from the disease and its gravity the results obtained in children who received combinations to different balneofactors (radon or sulfur baths) were compared. As control, fresh-water baths were taken, the other factors of the therapeutic complex being equal. The time course of the clinical, biochemical, and electrophysiological findings has shown that is is quite expedient to treat children suffering from Kugelberg-Welander amyotrophy with sulfur and radon baths. As to children with initial forms of Duchenne's myopathy it was found preferable to treat them with sulfur waters. The treatment complex should include, besides the baths, therapeutic exercises, oxygen therapy, mud or ozokerite applications, as well as general roborant therapy.

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PubMed1981

[Nervous system pathology in children with scleroderma].

An examination of 50 children suffering from various forms of scleroderma revealed clinical signs of nervous system involvement. The data of the skin functional parameters pointed to symptoms of irritation of the sympathetic nervous system. Electroencephalographic and electromyographic changes were observed. On being involved into the pathological process the nervous system begins to participate in the further development of the disease.

Adolescent↗
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[The rehabilitative treatment of polyneuropathies in children].

Two hundred children with hereditary polyneuropathy have been examined. A positive time course of clinical manifestations, the status of peripheral blood circulation and neuromuscular system after the exposure to sinusoidal modulated current and electrical stimulation provides evidence for higher efficacy of this method in comparison with inductothermy and local whirlpools.

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