[Use of vibrostimulating footgear in the complex treatment of stroke patients]

Under observation there were 95 patients with a history of a cerebral stroke. The therapeutic combination given to 65 of them included vibrostimulation of the bearing zones of the soles of both feet. The stimulation was effected inthe rhythm of man's walk with the use of special footwear developed at the Institute of Engineering Science, the USSR Academy of Sciences. The control group consisted of 30 patients with analogous pathology who did not receive the vibrotherapy. In all patients electroencephalographic, echo-encephalographic, rheoencephalographic and thermometric examinations were carried out. External respiration function was examined too. As a result it was found that the use of local vibrostimulation of the feet contributed to earlier (than in the control) activation of the patients with motor defects caused by the cerebral accident.