Introduction. Clinical assessment of a patient’s condition is traditionally based on comparing indicators characterizing the state of the body with the norm. In medicine, the understanding of the norm as a standard, a typical variant, as an ideal sample has become established. It is obvious that when studying mass phenomena, the norm is identified with the average variant. The osteopathic status of a healthy person has not yet been refl ected in scientific research, since in most cases people with specific complaints, long-established somatic dysfunctions (SD) and associated organic pathology come to an osteopathic doctor. In addition, due to the small spread of the «osteopathy» specialty in the field of compulsory health insurance, and the long duration of each appointment with a specialist, the number of people who have gone through an osteopathic examination is relatively small. Accordingly, there is a problem of assessing the osteopathic status (OS) on a fairly representative sample of conditionally healthy people. To solve this problem, it is advisable to conduct an osteopathic examination of a large group of practically healthy population, and systematize the obtained data. The category of military personnel can be chosen as such a population group — these are practically healthy and already minimally examined people.The goal of research is to study the osteopathic status of the practically healthy group of men of military age, and to give a statistical assessment of the quantitative and qualitative diversity of the identified SD.Materials and methods. The study involved practically healthy men of military age — conscripts, in the number of 480 people. According to the developed protocol, anamneses were collected and medical documentations of the study participants were studied, and the presence of a history of chronic diseases, operations and injuries was recorded. The assessment of the osteopathic status was based on the results of a Global osteopathic examination, which was conducted in accordance with clinical recommendations. Statistical processing of the results was performed using generally accepted parametric and nonparametric methods.Results. The dominant regional (RSD) and local (LSD) somatic dysfunctions were identified in the examined group of military personnel: RSD — 4 % (region of the Dura mater); LSD — 96 %, including 37 % — visceral LSD, 35 % — LSD of the musculoskeletal system, 24 % — LSD of the head region. From 1 to 8 LSD was detected per soldier examined, (2,3 LSD per person in average). No global somatic dysfunctions were detected. An analysis of the injuries and surgeries in the anamnesis indicates that it contribute to the formation of dominant LSD of the musculoskeletal system and visceral organs.Conclusion. The conducted research allowed to establish that, despite the individual characteristics of development, a healthy person of military age of the surveyed group shows mainly local somatic dysfunctions. There is a statistically significant association between a burdened history (injuries and surgery) and osteopathic status. The use of osteopathic diagnostics allows to detect somatic dysfunctions which could potentially be a predictor of the formation of more serious diseases and conditions.

Introduction. Dorsopathy occurs in 90 % of people throughout life, and is in the first place for the duration of temporary disability in people after 45 years. The sanatorium-resort phase of rehabilitation, including usually physiobalneotherapy, is important in the treatment of dorsopathy. Radon therapy is one of the physiobalneotherapy types. However the effectiveness of radon monotherapy is not more than 25–38 % for various forms of dorsopathy. Therefore a combination of balneotherapy with additional methods of infl uencing on the organism is used in modern balneology to increase the effectiveness of therapy and to ensure the achievement of a positive treatment result in a shorter time without pathological balneoreaction and exacerbation. Osteopathic correction can be considered as such an additional method of infl uencing on the organism, because it triggers a cascade of regulatory reactions at the local, regional and global levels, and these reactions have a cumulative and prolonged effect.The goal of research — to substantiate the possibility of osteopathic correction using in conjunction with radon baths at the sanatorium-resort stage of rehabilitation in patients suffering from dorsopathy.Materials and methods. The study involved women aged 25 to 60 years, with a diagnosis of dorsopathy, taking radon therapy. Using the method of simple randomization with a random number generator, the main group (30 people who received radon therapy and osteopathic correction, OC), and the control group (30 people who received only radon therapy) were allocated. At the beginning and the end of treatment the osteopathic status examination of each patient was conducted in parallel with the study of their reactive anxiety level, assessed according to the Spielberger–Hanin scale, the body′s resistance to hypoxia, assessed in the Stange test by the length of breath-holding after inspiration, and the adaptive capacity of the circulatory system, assessed by Coefficient of adaptation L. Kh. Garkavi. The results were processed using nonparametric statistics.Results. It was found that if OC was included in radon balneotherapy, the state of patients suffering from dorsopathy improves statistically significantly (p<0,0001) by the following indicators: the total number of somatic dysfunctions in patients and the number of regional dysfunctions decreased, the level of reactive anxiety decreased, the body′s resistance to hypoxia increased, the adaptive potential of the circulatory system increased. The changes of all indicators in the main group receiving OC in addition to radon therapy were significantly more pronounced than in the control group receiving only radon therapy (p≤0,0001).Conclusion. The results obtained during this study allow recommending the use of osteopathic correction to enhance the effect of the sanatorium-resort treatment.