History of SCENAR

RITM OKB ZAO was created in May 1980. The organization was originally named «Special Design Bureau of Medical Information-Automated Diagnostic Systems („MIDAS“)» at the Taganrog State University of Radio Engineering.

The Soviet Union had begun to fall behind Western countries in the field of medical equipment, and by the end of the 1980s this gap had become even more noticeable. The task of the new design bureau was to close this gap.

In 1983, OKB «MIDAS» was renamed OKB «RITM» at TRTI, and in 1998 the organization received its current name, RITM OKB ZAO. From the outset, the key activity of OKB was the development of health systems and devices for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, as well as systems and devices for psycho-physiological assessment. Centers training pilots, sailors, divers and other high-responsibility professionals were interested in cooperating with OKB.

The first contract for the development of the SCENAR device was signed on December 12, 1986, with a mysterious organization that had only a mailbox — G-4897 — instead of an address. It was most likely one of the units of the USSR space program. The new SCENAR device was immediately put into clinical studies.

The studies produced such unexpected results that by the late 1980s there was high demand for SCENAR therapy. The large number of patients made it possible to generalize the results, which led to the emergence of a new direction in medicine — SCENAR therapy — and a new medical specialty, the SCENAR therapist.