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The causes and treatment of vibration sickness.

Mechanical vibrations of a certain frequency is not a harmless physical phenomenon. With the constant presence of a person in a vibrational field, the work of the nervous system, cardiovascular activity, and musculoskeletal functions change. When working with moving or rotating mechanisms, vibrations are transmitted to a person when in contact with such mechanisms. The transmission of vibrational vibrations occurs through skin receptors, nerve endings to nerve trunks.

At the same time, the rate of transmission of impulses in synapses changes, the hormonal background changes, and this, in turn, affects the work of the vascular wall, forcing it to increase the tone inappropriately. Vibrational vibrations are transmitted to every cell of the body, which disrupts its usual state and the rate of metabolic processes. The neurons of the spinal cord, muscle fibers suffer especially strongly during vibration, the sensitivity of receptors decreases, dystrophic phenomena occur in the nervous tissue, autonomic disorders that affect the work of the gastrointestinal tract, muscle dysfunction. Disorder of functions in almost all body systems leads to the development vibration disease.

People of a number of professions are predisposed to the development of vibration disease: drivers of transport, excavators, forklifts, combines, as well as those working with vibration tools (drills, chippers, drilling machines and other rotating or moving mechanisms), polishers, cutters and similar specialists.

Signs of vibration disease.

Vibration disease is manifested by a number of symptoms and general poor health:

Dizziness,
Headaches of unknown etiology,
Impaired receptor sensitivity,
Reducing the threshold of pain sensitivity,
Surges in blood pressure,
Tachycardias,
Depression of the function of reflex movements,
Loss of hearing and vision,
myalgia,
Disorder of the vestibular apparatus,
Dyskinesias of the gastrointestinal tract,
Neurological pain (especially in the lumbosacral region).

A person feels constant nervous tension, feels a feeling of lack of air, general weakness, a decrease in the intellectual activity of the brain. A person suffering from vibration sickness may experience сonvulsions, numbness of certain areas of the skin or limbs, fainting, sleep process upset, thermoregulation, signs of neurasthenia appear.

Diagnostics of the vibration disease.

The diagnosis of "vibration disease" is made on the basis of a number of studies performed: polycardiographic, electromyographic. Cold tests, thermometry are carried out, pain sensitivity is measured. Explore the work of the cardiovascular system, musculoskeletal functions, the state of bones, joints and muscles.

Vibration disease – treatment.

Treatment of vibration disease is carried out in a comprehensive manner. First of all, the question arises of changing the profession as a possibility of excluding vibration effects from the victim's life. A prerequisite for successful treatment is to reduce the physical and nervous stress on the patient's body.

Then they switch to drug therapy, which involves taking antispasmodics, anticholinergics, ganglion blockers, drugs that improve blood microcirculation. Therapy is carried out with fortifying agents (vitamins of group B, ascorbic acid, a course of taking microelements ). Physiotherapeutic procedures are added to the main treatment: electrophoresis and reflexology, massage, spa treatments, air baths.