Healing Fitness. Tutorial. 5th edition, processed and supplemented. Epifanov A.V., Epifanov V.A.

The textbook describes the technologies of the therapeutic use of a wide range of functional tools: physical exercises, walking, outdoor games, elements of sports exercises, exercises in the aquatic environment, various types of massage, exercises on simulators and suspended systems, as well as labor therapy. This allows you to most fully and comprehensively use the patient’s physical training to achieve the best results of medical rehabilitation not only in hospitals, but also in clinics, sanatoriums, as well as at home. A special place among recovery therapy technologies is occupied by methods that include C1-therapy, robotherapy based on virtual reality, etc.

The textbook takes into account modern achievements of medical science, which led to a change in views on the methodology recovery treatment. The clinical and physiological substantiation of the use of therapeutic physical culture in the complex therapy of patients and disabled people is presented in sufficient detail. The basis of the book is the modern principles of prescribing various means of therapeutic physical culture using the motor regime, massage, manual and psychotherapy, ergotherapy, hippotherapy, kinesiotherapy, etc. various diseases and damage to the central and peripheral nervous, cardiovascular and bone muscular systems, respiratory organs, metabolism and other metabolic diseases. Each chapter includes clinical symptoms and diagnosis of the underlying disease (damage), which allows you to individualize rehabilitation programs.

The publication contains a large number of drawings and tables, some sections show complexes or a list of special physical exercises, which allows you to better learn the studied Material.

The study guide is intended for students of medical universities studying in the specialties "Treatment" and "Pediatrics" in the discipline "Medical Realization", students of the faculties of postgraduate, graduate students, and will also be useful to specialists working in practical health care.