[Physical training for the treatment of children presenting with bronchial asthma].

This paper reports the results of the treatment of 101 children presenting with bronchial asthma. The study has demonstrated the pronounced positive effect of the combined application of a pulsed low-frequency electrostatic field and therapeutic physical training on the dynamics of clinical symptoms of the disease. By the end of the treatment period, all the patients reported the disappearance of paroxysmal night-time coughing, productive cough, expectoration, and attacks of respiratory distress. Auscultation failed to reveal dry, whistling, and bubbling rales. Dynamics of the changes of the impaired airway patency was estimated from the results of computed pneumotachometry and monitoring peak expiratory flow by the peak flowmetric technique. The combined application of a pulsed low-frequency electrostatic field and therapeutic physical training significantly improved characteristics of the external expiratory function (PEF, FEV1, MEFR25, MEFR50--p < 0.02, MEFR75--p < 0.001). In the end of therapy, 96.7% of the children had normal parameters of computed flowmetry in the absence of a generalized impairment of bronchial patency while obstruction at the level of peripheral bronchi persisted only in 3.3% of the patients. The increase of PEF based on the results of peak flowmetry averaged 44.21% (p < 0.001). A rationale has been developed for the application of the proposed therapeutic strategy to the treatment of children with bronchial asthma.