Gustav Zander biography

Jonas Gustav Wilhelm Zander was born on March 29 in Stockholm. From for a year, he studied medicine at the University of Upsalus University in Sweden. Even in the learning process, Zander began to develop and put into practice medical and mechanical gymnastics.

Five years after graduation at the university in the year, Zander opened the first institution of medical exercises in Stockholm. The basis of the therapeutic process was the method of using mechanical apparatuses designed specifically specially for training various muscle groups and joint groups. When creating mechanotherapeutic systems, Zander relied primarily on the foundations of the teachings of P.

Ling Swedish therapist, the founder of the Swedish gymnastics system, who claimed that the systematic training of the muscle apparatus and articular gymnastics are able to eliminate many symptoms of diseases of the musculoskeletal system. Jonas Gustav Wilhelm Zander. Photo of available sources. The method of Gustav Tsander and his mechanotherapeutic devices were undoubtedly revolutionary for that time.

Of particular interest among experts was the fact that the apparatuses of Zander combined not only the possibility of active-passive gymnastics, but also the possibility of an objective diagnostic assessment of the functionality of the patient’s musculoskeletal system. For example, the power of resistance overcome with a particular exercise was determined using a special counter, thus, during classes, the dynamometry of various muscle groups was carried out, which created the possibility of assessing muscle strength in dynamics, to monitor the effectiveness of classes throughout the course of treatment.

The mechanotherapeutic apparatus of the structure of Gustav Zander. Particular attention is deserved by the apparatus of Tsander for passive mechanotherapy, which made it possible to create a passive mechanical load on various muscle groups by "shaking", "felting", "shocks", "ironing" and the vibrational motion of special elements of the mechanical apparatus. Gustav Zander was the first to use devices for extensity therapy, that is, the spinal traction and posture correction.

The systems developed by the cander made it possible not only to carry out therapeutic and modulating procedures, but also to mathematically accurately portray graphically the curvature of the spine. Zander paid special attention to the importance of kinesiotherapy against children and elderly patients. In the first case, the gymnastics was of key importance in the process of forming the musculoskeletal system as the body grows and changes the anthropometric body parameters, in the second case, it allowed to strengthen and maintain the body that, due to any chronic diseases or physical disabilities, was not ready for ordinary gymnastics.

In Sweden, physical gymnastics according to the Tsander method has become very popular with diseases of the nervous and cardiovascular systems, as well as the musculoskeletal system. During the period of work with a year, the Institute of Medical Gymnastics in Stockholm served more than twenty thousand patients of men and women, which on average is about patients a year. Over time, the devices of Gustav Tsander became actively used around the world, and became widespread in the resorts of Europe and America.

Even the sadly famous Titanic was equipped with the popular Tsander apparatus. The first class of the Titanic, who left for the first and last voyage in April of the year, had access to the gym, which was equipped with rowing simulators, stationary bicycles, as well as simulations for simulating horse riding mechanized hippotherapy and even camel. The gymnastic hall on the basis of the Institute of Mechanotherapy in Essentuki is now the Sanatorium "Nadezhda" Essentuki.

In Russia, the first hospital, which worked according to the Tsander method and on his devices, was arranged in St. Petersburg by a doctor S. Eingorn in the year. In the year of the Tsandera Institute of Mechanotherapy in Essentuki, a complex of 64 devices was installed. It is curious that even now, on the basis of the Nadezhda sanatorium in Essentuki, more than 50 devices designed by Tsander continues to be used.

Shots with these devices can be seen in the film "Love and Pigeons". The history of these devices is quite interesting. From the first day of the opening of the institute, Evdokim Zhernykleev worked as a boy with devices. During the Civil War, the devices were temporarily taken to Pyatigorsk, and were returned to Zhernykleev, who by that time was already a mechanic-instructor.

Since the year, patients again received mechanotherapy in Essentuki. During the Second World War, the Group of the German Army in the North Caucasus had an order to take out the unique apparatuses of Tsander to Germany. When German troops entered Essentuki, Zhernykleev completely dismantled all the devices, and threw the details into a heap with garbage. If Zhernokleev died, the devices would have perished everything completely, since he was the only one who could collect them back.

After the liberation of Essentukov, Zhernykleev gathered the devices and brought them into an exemplary order. The devices are still working.Photo from available sources of the mechanotherapy apparatus of the Gustav Tsander structure. Photos of available sources, many ideas proposed by Gustava Tsander when developing and constructing their mechanotherapeutic devices are continued in modern high -tech samples of rehabilitation equipment.

For example, the Horsema apparatus, which reproduced the patterns of the riding of a horse located in the saddle and is essentially a device for hippotherapy, has currently become a certain prototype for modern equipment, including robotized ones, including robotic ones. For example, the modern robotic complex “Hirob” is not an analogue of a rehabilitation robot created on the basis of a three -dimensional analysis of the movements of the horse.

Thus, modern rehabilitation devices successfully embody the idea proposed at one time with a zander.