METHOD OF DETERMINING LEVEL OF HUMAN PHYSICAL WORK CAPACITY Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61B3/02 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to sports medicine. Test with constant loading is set and sequence of paired light 200 ms long pulses, divided by initial inter-pulse 70 ms long, repeated after constant 1 s long time interval, is demonstrated. Threshold inter-pulse interval, when two pulses in pair fuse into one, is periodically determined by method of successive approximation. Time of testing is determined by the time of sharp decrease of threshold inter-pulse interval values, the level of physical work capacity is determined by the volume of fulfilled work A in J, as the product of loading power by time of testing. First, a tested person is given a test with constant loading, equal to 75% of proper maximal oxygen consumption, after which testing is repeated after two days of rest with loading, increased by 50 W until graph of threshold inter-pulse interval dynamics has descending trend. State of physical work capacity is determined by previous graph of threshold inter-pulse interval, which has "plateau".

EFFECT: method increases reliability of physical work capacity estimation due to setting adequate loading.

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