METHOD OF ASSESSING A PERSON’S FUNCTIONAL STATE BASED ON THE PHENOMENON OF STABILITY THE CONDUCTIVITY AVERAGE IN MICRO-ZONES

• Main Authors: O. P. Strakhova, A. A. Ryzhov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ukrmedknyha Publishing House 2015-05-01
• Series: Medična Informatika ta Inženerìâ
• Online Access: http://ojs.tdmu.edu.ua/index.php/here/article/view/3809
• ISSN: 1996-1960; 1997-7468

Important research task is to find the integral criterion of rapid assessment the person's functional state and its current changes. Used for this purpose, the traditional methods do not always provide a complete and easy-to-interpret description of this subject. The methods of determining the functional state by a measuring skin conductance and existing rules for processing the results are considered here. Is illustrated a strategy for determining the functional state by electrocutaneous characteristics of acupuncture points, or micro-zones. The investigation of human functional state by measuring the electrocutaneous characteristics of micro-zones led to the discovery of the phenomenon of the stability of the average value of the conductivity in electrodermal acupuncture “meridians source-point”. Mutual relations between the average values of the individual electrocutaneous characteristics in micro-zones turned out to be a stable and persist over time. Electrocutaneous characteristics of micro-zones reflect the current functional state of a person, so their measurement can be used to find the relative change in the condition of the person in the course of any activity. The functional state of a person depends on the season, the degree of fatigue, has gender differences. The proposed method of processing the measurements of the electrocutaneous characteristics in micro-zones has novelty; it allows determining the relative changes in the status of the body individual systems, and to carry out the quantitative calculations of such changes. Given the non-chaotic mutual relative distribution of electrocutaneous characteristics of micro-zones mean values, we can assume that the micro-zones actually exist; each of them has some informative parameters (like the teeth of the ECG) and are functional reflections of skin -and- visceral connections. Probably it is a representation of one more regulatory system of an organism.