Vyara Dimitrova

By Vyara Dimitrova, Assen Aleksiev and Penka Perenovska

The aim is to compare the effect of the combination of kinesitherapy and ultrahigh-frequency current in children with bronchial asthma with a control group without rehabilitation. There were 24 children with bronchial asthma of average age of 8 followed for 10 days. They were randomized into two groups—12 children in the “physiotherapeutic” and 12 in the “control.” All were treated with equal standard pharmacotherapy. The first group was treated also with kinesitherapy and ultrahigh-frequency current. At the beginning and end of the therapeutic course, the spirometric and anthropometric parameters were documented. In the statistical analysis were included the proportions between the actual and the expected spirometric parameters, adjusted for all anthropometric parameters. The ratios between the actual and the expected spirometric parameters improved significantly in both groups after 10-day treatment compared with before treatment (P < 0.05). In the “physiotherapeutic” group, the improvement after the treatment was significantly greater, when compared with the “control” group (P < 0.05). In conclusion, there is a significant therapeutic effect, upgrading that of pharmacotherapy when children with bronchial asthma were treated for 10 days with the combination of kinesitherapy and ultrahigh-frequency current.

Part of the book: Bronchitis in Children