[A new method physical loading tests in the evaluation of functional status and the development of rehabilitation...

The authors studied the potentialities of employment of a new method of exercise tests (cyclic bicycle ergometry) for the assessment of convalescents' function and working capacity following acute communicable diseases. The above method showed the relationship of convalescents' function and working capacity with a nosological form and stage of convalescence. It was established that some indices of patients' function did not return to normal by discharge. Different mechanisms were shown to lie in the basis of disturbances in various infections. A conclusion was made that convalescents were in need of differentiated pathogenetically founded and purpose-oriented recovery therapeutic measures which should be taken into account in drawing up programs for their rehabilitation and follow-up after acute communicable diseases.