Center for medical and rehabilitation "Rainbow"

The Republican Children's Rehabilitation Center "Rainbow" is located at an altitude of 550 m above sea level in the resort area of the picturesque area of the city. Nalchik, which has unique balneological factors: therapeutic mud, various mineral springs, famous for their healing properties. Two bedroom buildings are organically inscribed in a beautiful landscape, around a lot of green spaces and flower beds. Children are accepted for treatment and rest at the age of 7 to 14 years. The child has a sanatorium-resort card, information about vaccinations, a tank of tests, the conclusions of a phthisiologist and a dermatologist. Medical nutrition in the Center is organized at a high professional level. Equipped with modern equipment, the dining room provides five meals a day. The individual approach to nutrition required by the specifics of the contingent is carried out by qualified doctors - nutritionists. The center has all conditions for continuous learning and recreation, a beautiful library, assembly hall, slot machines. Actively carried out rehabilitation program provides for children in more than 10 clubs, walks, hikes and excursions to the most beautiful mountainous areas of the republic, competitions in the gym and in the pool. Main medical profile: Diseases of the eye and its appendage Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue Diseases of the nervous system Diseases of the respiratory system Diseases of the digestive organs In the center there are departments: somatic, ophthalmological, orthopedic, neurological and separation of mother and child with cerebral palsy. The medical building is equipped with modern diagnostic and treatment rooms, medical swimming, mineral (iodine-bromine) baths, electro-mud, physiotherapy, mechanotherapy, sauna, underwater shower-massage, inhalation, etc. The effectiveness of medical rehabilitation of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, nervous system, organs of vision, gastrointestinal tract and upper respiratory tract is high. On the basis of the rehabilitation center, an eye department for the rehabilitation treatment of children with accommodation spasm and myopia is open and successfully functioning. A new direction, which has been developed in the rehabilitation center, is the use of interval hypoxic therapy for the treatment of children with chronic respiratory diseases, endocrine system and cerebral palsy. A highly qualified team of specialists of the center, led by the chief doctor, doctor of medical sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Khatsukov B.H., professionally and pays great attention to the course of medical rehabilitation, achieving effective results in the treatment of children. The medical building has the following rooms: • Functional diagnostics (ECG, UZDG). • Clinical and biochemical laboratory. The therapist. Rehabilitator. Speech therapist. Dentist. Psychotherapist. • Procedural. • Touch. Speleoclimate therapy. Physiotherapy. Laser therapy. • Electrical mud treatment. • Paraffin applications. • Paraffin-naphthalan applications. Swimming pool with nitrogen-thermal mineral water. Iodine baths. • Mineral dental irrigation. • Mineral oil inhalations. • Underwater shower massage. • Underwater spinal traction. • Swirling baths of hands and feet. Kinesotherapy. Physical therapy. • Mechanotherapy on special projectiles and simulators (bicycle ergometer, Swedish wall, treadmills, rowing, special devices for the development of upper and lower extremities, costumes "Adel", "Graviton", simulator "Gross", ortho-prosthetic products, etc.). Interval hypoxic therapy (“Mountain air”). BRDRC "Raduga" cooperates with: Research Institute of Neurocybernetics of Rostov State University named after Kogan, RAPO, Institute of General and Pathological Physiology (Moscow), Pyatigorsk State Pharmaceutical Academy, Institute of Informatics and Problems of Regional Management of the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with the Ukrainian National Institute of Physical Culture and Sports, St. Petersburg Research Institute of Pathophysiology, as a result of which new methods of treatment are introduced into practice.