EUROMEDICA  Hanover 1-2  Juni 2007	Advanced methods of diagnosis, treatment and prophylactics
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow

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Stabilometrics – is the method to estimate the dynamics of a foot’s pressure centre against foothold. Nowadays one can distinguish between two existing trends of stabilometric diagnostics: the postural tone’s exposure of asymmetry and the study of a human stability in the vertical position.

The first task can be solved only on conditions of a proper placing of patient’s feet. Generally accepted European and American feet placing does not meet the requirements of the basic human upright position. The basic upright position must be habitual, natural and individual. The main condition for the stabilometric definition of the body tone is the accurate feet vectoring in relation to the frontal and saggital axis of stabilometric platform in the basic upright position. We propose to implement the basic feet placing in upright position, using the reference point of Barre – tuberosity of V metatarsus for the vertical and equal distance between heels for the saggital. In such feet placing it is possible to define stabilometrically the global balancing of a body in a vertical position.

The dynamic stabilization of the upright position of the body and its stability are studied according to different stabilometric indices. The most common and clear of them is the square of statokinesigramma – trajectory of the shift of pressure centre. The less square of statokinesigramma we have, the better is the stability. Nevertheless, having one and the same square of statokinesigramma, we can have different process of stabilization of upright position of the body. In order to study the body’s stabilization in the vertical position it is necessary to study the speed dynamics of the shift of pressure centre, both linear and angle. It is possible only due to the analysis of speed vectors of statokinesigramma. (Usachyov V.I., 1999, 2006).

The condition of the global balancing of the body in a vertical position, as well as its stability and stabilization are undoubtedly important elements of postural and osteopathic diagnostics. One can judge about the initial asymmetry of postural tone and evaluate the effectiveness of osteopathic treatment. But with the help of stabilometrics it seems possible to study biorhythms of a body which also lie in the field of osteopath’s interests.

Given the person’s prolonged standing on a stabilometric platform (3 to 10 min.) it is possible to define two rhythms by means of spectral analysis of a body vibration in a saggital plane. The first one with the period of about 100 sec (0,01 Gz), corresponding to the slow waves, perceived by osteopaths, and the second one – of about one minute (0,015 Gz), which is called slow postural vibrations by posturologists.

In the horizontal body position, having the patient’s head and shoulders on two stabilometric platforms, in the specter of integral stabilogrammes both in the frontal and saggital position, one can definitely register high-amplitude breathing peak, on the low-frequency slope of which one can identify the peak, corresponding to the craniosacral rhythm (8-12 per minute). This peak comprises 50% of the breathing excursions according to the amplitude. The third peak in this situation corresponds to the osteopathic rhythm of a motility of a tissue.

Stabilometric diagnostics, reflecting the level of global balancing and stabilization of the body in conjunction with its biorhythms can serve as an evaluation method assessing the effectiveness of osteopathic treatment