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Sergey Stepanovich Kartavenko was born on September 3, 1947, in Moscow to an engineer and a tailor. After completing secondary school, he worked as a radio technician of electronic equipment at the Pyrometric Instrumentation Plant in Kaluga from 1965 to 1966 before entering medical education.
Kartavenko studied at the Second Moscow State Medical Institute named after N. I. Pirogov from 1966 to 1972 at its pediatric faculty, receiving training that led to his first specialty as an anesthesiologist-resuscitationist. The institute was one of the principal Soviet medical schools in Moscow and was associated with the Pirogov medical educational tradition.
From 1972 to 1974, he completed clinical residency in anesthesiology and resuscitation at the Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute named after M. F. Vladimirsky. The institute, commonly known as MONIKI, was a major regional clinical and postgraduate medical center serving Moscow and the surrounding region. He later completed postgraduate training in reflexology and neurology at the Central Institute for Postgraduate Training for Doctors in 1979 and undertook additional professional training and certification cycles in neurology.
Kartavenko began his working life in technical medicine-related industry, serving as a radio technician of electronic equipment at the Pyrometric Instrumentation Plant in Kaluga from 1965 to 1966. After completing medical institute and residency training, he worked as a physician in the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimatology of the Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute from 1974 to 1980. He combined clinical practice with research into physical, nonmedicamentous, and integrated methods of anesthesia.
From 1975, Kartavenko developed expertise in acupuncture and reflexology for acute and chronic pain. He completed primary specialization in reflexology in 1976 and postgraduate courses in reflexology and neurology in 1979. He subsequently served as a junior research assistant at the Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute from 1980 to 1989.
Kartavenko's research contributed to the development of electropuncture techniques for pain relief. A 1982 Soviet invention certificate identified him as a co-inventor of a method of anesthesia using electrical stimulation. His work in this area was associated with the Lenin Komsomol Prize in science and technology in 1980 and with later medical equipment developed for electroimpulse treatment.
In 1994, Kartavenko became a senior researcher in the Pain Syndrome Department of the Russian Scientific Center of Surgery of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, where he worked until 1996. From 1996 he served as a leading researcher and headed a group concerned with electroimpulse methods of anesthesia and therapy. The Russian Scientific Center of Surgery, later named for academician B. V. Petrovsky, was a major Soviet and Russian surgical research institution.
From 1994 he also combined research with work as a physician-reflexotherapist at an integrative-medicine service associated with the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. His research and clinical practice centered on the REAT method, described as resonance electroimpulse therapy and analgesia, and on the Areat equipment series used for noninvasive electroimpulse treatment of pain syndromes. In 2014 he became head of the Department of Reflexology and Integrative Therapy of Pain Syndromes at the Consultative and Diagnostic Center of the State Research Center for Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Kartavenko continued to present work on chronic pain, trigeminal neuralgia, neuropathic pain, intermittent claudication, and related disorders. He was also associated with the development and promotion of the Areat medical-equipment project and served as general director of Areat LLC, a Moscow company registered in 2010 for activities in the health-care sector.
Kartavenko developed and advanced electropuncture and noninvasive electroimpulse approaches to pain relief, including the REAT method of resonance electroimpulse therapy and analgesia.
He contributed to the development of medical equipment associated with electroimpulse treatment, including the EPANAL and AREAT series, and published scientific work on integrative methods for pain syndromes.
He was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Medical and Technical Sciences in 2008.
Kartavenko was recognized as an inventor for work on medical methods and equipment for anesthesia and pain therapy.
(Study of combining noninvasive REAT electroacupuncture wi...)
2015(Conference paper presenting the REAT method as an integra...)
2006(Research report on an integrative treatment method for tr...)
2011(Co-authored article describing integrative methods for tr...)
2011(Soviet invention certificate No. 936929 describing a meth...)
1982Kartavenko's parents were Stepan Nikitovich Kartavenko, an engineer, and Olga Pimenovna Kartavenko, a tailor. He is married to Elena Makeevna Kartavenko and has a daughter, Olga Kartavenko.
