The development of up-to-date health promotion programs for the enhancement of the functional reserves of the body in the students engaged in active sports activities

The present study was designed to evaluate the possibility of health protection in the students engaged in active sports activities laying emphasis on the application of the non-medicamental technologies for the optimization and enhancement of the functional reserves of physical health. The study involved 320 students at the age from 18 to 21 years. At the first stage, the students engaged and unengaged in active sports activities were compared in terms of their functional conditions with the control healthy subjects. At the second stage, the students involved in active sports activities were included in the complex health promotion program to undergo reflex-segmental, vacuum-interference, and general treatment, such as combined application of a pulsed low-frequency electrostatic field, baths containing biologically active compounds of plant origin (components of horse chestnut) and monotherapy. Comparative analysis of the results of these investigations has demonstrated the advantages of the complex health promotion program confirmed by normalization of the vitality index, Robinson’s index, and Martine-Kushelevsky test as well as integral index dynamics to the respective reference values. The results of the study give evidence that the methods of general treatment cause a more apparent increase of the studied parameters than reflexo-segmental ones.

functional reserves, students engaged in active sports activities, reflexo-segmental treatment, vacuum-interference therapy, pulsed low-frequency electrostatic field, baths containing biologically active compounds