“Republican Theoretical and Practical Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery”
of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus (in 2010–2015),
Andrei L. Tanin developed and implemented into medical practice clinical and
diagnostic complex, which includes neurologic, electrophysiological and thermal
imaging methods, laser speckle-optical methods of studies that made it possible to
derive more complete and objective information about the character of damage and
the flow of regenerative innervations process in surgically restored nerve trunks and
tissues, which are innervated by them. Due to these studies, speckle-optical method
became widely used on the early stage of diagnostics of such diseases of nervous
system as compressive–ischemic and traumatic damages of peripheral nerves and
also for the observation of the dynamics of the restoration of the functions lost as a
result of damage of peripheral nervous system during the treatment.
Laser microhematomyograph (laser specklometer) has been effectively used in
the Institute of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Physiotherapy of the Ministry of
Health of the Republic of Belarus for the diagnostics of the diseases of central and
peripheral nervous systems, but its possibilities still have not been fully discovered.
It is necessary to highlight that the sphere of its application extends not only the
measurements of skin blood flow and muscle tonic state but also on the studies of
other organs and tissues.
In the course of the studies, in charge of which was Leonid V. Tanin and in
which he actively participated, for the first time there was created series of contactless coherent-optical methods on the basis of optical holography, holographic
and speckle-interferometry, holographic microscopy, speckle-photography, laser
diffractometry with simultaneous electrophysiological control for the diagnostics
and treatment of different neurologic diseases, control over the process of the
development of which can be quantitatively estimated both on the cellular level and
on the whole organism that allows studying the mechanisms of appearing and
development of the diseases of this type was created. With the help of these
methods and specially developed devices, pulsation activity of nerve cells was
studied, water wave properties of nerve fibers were observed for the first time, the
dependence of the speed of muscle contraction on the time, the field of deformations of epithelial tissue were defined.
Starting from 1978 with the participation of Leonid V. Tanin methods of laser
puncture (LP), methods of combined usage of LP, hyperbaric oxygenation, LP and
classical acupuncture and also intravenous laser blood irradiation (ILBI) for the
treatment of diseases of peripheral nervous system (PNS) were developed and
implemented in the Institute of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Physiotherapy of the
BSSR. These studies allowed maintaining and organizing at qualitatively new level
physical therapy, reasonably and actively attracting laser radiation of different
intensity, length, spectral composition and other physical and pharmacological
means. On the basis of the profound studies of the mechanisms of influence of laser
radiation on the manifestation of atherosclerotic process depending on the degree of
its manifestation certain techniques were developed that allow determining the
regimes of radiation of whole blood and vessels walls: the intensity and duration of
laser radiation, frequency and time of influence that provide the best treatment effect.
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of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus (in 2010–2015),
Andrei L. Tanin developed and implemented into medical practice clinical and
diagnostic complex, which includes neurologic, electrophysiological and thermal
imaging methods, laser speckle-optical methods of studies that made it possible to
derive more complete and objective information about the character of damage and
the flow of regenerative innervations process in surgically restored nerve trunks and
tissues, which are innervated by them. Due to these studies, speckle-optical method
became widely used on the early stage of diagnostics of such diseases of nervous
system as compressive–ischemic and traumatic damages of peripheral nerves and
also for the observation of the dynamics of the restoration of the functions lost as a
result of damage of peripheral nervous system during the treatment.
Laser microhematomyograph (laser specklometer) has been effectively used in
the Institute of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Physiotherapy of the Ministry of
Health of the Republic of Belarus for the diagnostics of the diseases of central and
peripheral nervous systems, but its possibilities still have not been fully discovered.
It is necessary to highlight that the sphere of its application extends not only the
measurements of skin blood flow and muscle tonic state but also on the studies of
other organs and tissues.
In the course of the studies, in charge of which was Leonid V. Tanin and in
which he actively participated, for the first time there was created series of contactless coherent-optical methods on the basis of optical holography, holographic
and speckle-interferometry, holographic microscopy, speckle-photography, laser
diffractometry with simultaneous electrophysiological control for the diagnostics
and treatment of different neurologic diseases, control over the process of the
development of which can be quantitatively estimated both on the cellular level and
on the whole organism that allows studying the mechanisms of appearing and
development of the diseases of this type was created. With the help of these
methods and specially developed devices, pulsation activity of nerve cells was
studied, water wave properties of nerve fibers were observed for the first time, the
dependence of the speed of muscle contraction on the time, the field of deformations of epithelial tissue were defined.
Starting from 1978 with the participation of Leonid V. Tanin methods of laser
puncture (LP), methods of combined usage of LP, hyperbaric oxygenation, LP and
classical acupuncture and also intravenous laser blood irradiation (ILBI) for the
treatment of diseases of peripheral nervous system (PNS) were developed and
implemented in the Institute of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Physiotherapy of the
BSSR. These studies allowed maintaining and organizing at qualitatively new level
physical therapy, reasonably and actively attracting laser radiation of different
intensity, length, spectral composition and other physical and pharmacological
means. On the basis of the profound studies of the mechanisms of influence of laser
radiation on the manifestation of atherosclerotic process depending on the degree of
its manifestation certain techniques were developed that allow determining the
regimes of radiation of whole blood and vessels walls: the intensity and duration of
laser radiation, frequency and time of influence that provide the best treatment effect.
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