Actuality January 19, 2008

Russian “space” physicians are ready to share their developments with “earth” colleagues.

“We began the batch production of Regent loadings suits that can help the rehabilitation of hundreds of thousands patients after an ischemic stroke, and wait orders from neurological clinics and other potential consumers”, reported Irina Saenko, deputy general director of Aerospace Medicine Center, senior research assistant of Institute of Medical and Biological Problems (IMBP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). According to the data of clinical trials, Regent application increases efficiency of patients’ rehabilitation after an ischemic stroke and cranial cerebral traumas almost twice, she marked.

Block frame – separate shorts, vest and knee pads – allows physicians-educators to apply a suit by indications on different stages of patients’ recovery. The main elements of Regent suit, which is created on the basis of regular product for ISS crews – Penguin suit, are power tractions, loading the certain ground of muscles. Suit carrier has to overcome efforts, created by these tractions, to work in space, and that promotes the increase of the muscle loading at motions performance. This, in return, enhances regulation of metabolic processes and activation of muscle receptors that result in normal activity of mechanisms that provide erect posture and walking. Patients after a stroke are the same “astronauts in weightlessness”, therefore Regent application allows them to keep the correct posture and gives necessary dosed loading on different ground of muscles, Saenko explained.

According to her, the new complex non-medicated method of recovery treatment at the heart of which is Regent application was developed for 10 years of clinical trials. Medical suit provides inclusion of all muscle grounds; moreover a physician can regulate loadings that should be given on a certain part of body. But the most important, in scientist opinion, is “Regent unique influence” on psychological and emotional state of patients. “They have more motivation to physical exercises, mood for recovery, they overcome dread of fall”, Saenko marked.

In 2008 IMBP specialists also plan to put in production plantar simulators of supporting load (PION) that will be used together with Regent for maximum effect achievement.

On the 55th World Salon of innovations, scientific researches and new technologies “Brussel-Eureka 2006″ that passed in Belgium capital, IMBP developments – Regent and “PION” – got gold medals.