Alexithymia in women after myocardial infarction: the role of neurophysiological correction method in complex sanatorium rehabilitation
D'iachkova-Rekhtina, N.N.; Rekhtina, L.V.; Bondareva, Z.G.; Korolenko, T.P.
Klinicheskaia Meditsina 85(4): 52-55
2007
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2149 PMID: 17564040 Document Number: 610082
The article is dedicated to analysis of psychological features of 152 women with coronary artery disease (CAD), who had had acute myocardial infarction and had begun sanatorium rehabilitation in Belokurikha sanatorium. The role of the neurophysiological method of bioadaptive regulation in improvement of the efficacy of early post-infarction rehabilitation and secondary CAD prophylaxis in women with alexithymia was evaluated. The authors make their conclusion on the basis of clinico-functional and psychological studies and statistical evaluation of the data received in the course of the study. The study demonstrated full reestablishment of functional reserve, the presence of psychoemotional relaxation, compensation of complications, and mobilization of psychological resourse in patients with alexithymia whose sanatorium rehabilitation program included psychotherapy with biological feedback trainings.