Gravity therapy in medical practice
https://doi.org/10.51922/2616-633X.2025.9.1.2506
Abstract
Тhe experience gained in the development of aerospace medicine as well as the study of the influence of weightlessness on the physiological processes occurring in the human body, made it possible to use gravity therapy in medical practice. Gravity therapy is understood as the use of attractive forces between physical bodies, taking into account the vector of action of these forces, depending on the position of the body, for the treatment of patients. Gravitational therapy methods may involve the use of artificial gravity values that exceed those of the earth (in this case, we are talking about the therapeutic effect of increased gravity (hypergravity) and those that are less significant (hypogravity).
This article describes the history of the most common methods of gravity therapy, areas of their application and mechanisms of influence on pathological processes. Also described the methods of gravitational influence available in the Republic of Belarus.
About the Authors
A. A. Birulya
Belarusian State Medical University;
State Institution “Republican Scientific and Practical Center “Cardiology”
Belarus
Belarus
Minsk
E. B. Petrova
Belarusian State Medical University;
State Institution “Republican Scientific and Practical Center “Cardiology”
Belarus
Belarus
Minsk
L. A. Malkevich
Belarusian State Medical University
Belarus
Belarus
Minsk
N. P. Mitkovskaya
Belarusian State Medical University
Belarus
Belarus
Minsk
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Birulya A.A., Petrova E.B., Malkevich L.A., Mitkovskaya N.P. Gravity therapy in medical practice. Emergency Cardiology and Cardiovascular Risks journal. 2025;9(1):2506-2514. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.51922/2616-633X.2025.9.1.2506
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