The history of the HSC “ROFES” began nearly eighty years ago. In 1930s a German doctor Reinhard Voll supposed and then proved that the acupunctural diagnostics, which had been known in the Chinese medicine for nearly two thousand years, could be carried out not only with a needle but also with an electrode. So the term “electropuncture” emerged, which is commonly known as the “Voll method”. The electropuncture turned up just in the right moment in the beginning of 1970s, when Soviet scientists were dealing with the forecasting of cosmonauts’ health state during long orbital flights. In the Scientific-research institute for medical-biological problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which was providing all medical aspects of space programmes, they began to develop the idea of a so-called “prenosological diagnostics”. Finding health problems before their manifestation as symptoms was the purpose of this diagnostics. It allows to intervene when the disease just starts developing and to help a patient to avoid serious problems with lesser and softer means. As they say in China: “To cure someone when one is already ill is the same as to dig a well only when you start feeling thirsty”.
Electropuncture soon was transferred from the space medicine to the army. There it was principally used for the assessment of psychoemotional state of soldiers and officers, prevention of suicides, violations of military discipline and various accidents, caused by the stress of drivers and operators of military equipment. It was in the army, where Aleksey Ivanovich Kornyukhin, a military mathematician and a programmer, learned about electropuncture. Having understood, that this technique would give great opportunities for the health maintenance, he refused from his career of an officer and concentrated on the study and development of electropuncture technologies.
Thanks to it, the hardware-software complex “ROFES” (registrar of the functional-emotional state assessment) of the first generation emerged in 1995. This complex was designed and suitable for professional consultants. Specialists from a number of scientific and medical institutions took part in its development:
– Ural state medical academy;
– Sverdlovsk regional clinical psychoneurological hospital for war veterans;
– Regional radiation medicine centre;
– Regional centre of the social adaption of reserves military servants.
ROFES is being constantly improved on the basis of practical results of its application obtained in the health care and medical centres of Russia. Nowadays the complex of the fourth generation is at specialists’ disposal.
This technology was recognized both at Russian and at the international levels. A.I.Kornyukhin, the head of the “ROFES” system development, is distinguished with several significant awards:
– S.P.Korolyov medal – for the contribution to the cosmonautics development (2010),
– N.I.Pirogov order – for the development of the “ROFES” screening-diagnostics development and its implementation in the health care system (2011),
– Rudolf Virkhov medal of the European Academy of Natural Sciences – for the development of medical equipment (Hannover, 2012).
In 2010 the development of the “home” ROFES was started, a device which would not require any special training. One year later it became evident that the invention of such device is possible and the designing of the new, revolutionary ROFES was begun. Soon it would become a usual thing, like home tonometer or thermometer, since its usage doesn’t require any special training, it’s enough just to read the operation manual.