Bronchitis is a disease manifested by acutely occurring inflammation of the mucous membrane of the tracheobronchial tree. Consequently, all physiotherapeutic effects should be pathogenetic, primarily anti-inflammatory.
Therapeutic muds (peloids) are natural organo-mineral colloidal formations that possess the properties of heat carriers and contain biologically active substances (salts, gases, biostimulants, etc.) and living microorganisms.
When the disease worsens, the treatment of patients with bronchial asthma is carried out in a hospital. In various combinations and with the corresponding alternation of procedures, the following methods of physiotherapeutic treatment are carried out there. Medicinal electrophoresis of essential medicines. The effect of sinusoidal modulated currents (amplipulse therapy) on the corresponding regions.
Aeroionotherapy is a method of influencing the human body through the respiratory tract and skin by electrically charged gas molecules (aeroions) or combined water and gas molecules (hydroaeroions).
Normobaric hypoxic therapy ("mountain air") is a method of inhalation effect performed by a gas mixture with a reduced oxygen content when the mixture is mixed with atmospheric air.
Ultrasound therapy (ultrasound therapy) is a method of local exposure to ultra-high frequency acoustic oscillations, carried out with the help of an appropriate radiator, which is applied through the ointment base to a specific area of the skin of the patient's body or through an aqueous medium.
These new methods do not refer to traditional physiotherapy. Their peculiarity is in using mainly the information component of an external physical factor acting on the human body.
Heat therapy is an application in the treatment-and-prophylactic and rehabilitation purposes of heated media with high heat capacity, low thermal conductivity and high heat-retaining capacity. The main types of heat therapy are paraffin and ozokeritotherapy.
All types of hydrotherapy are divided into hydrotherapy and balneotherapy. Hydrotherapy is a group of methods of external use in the treatment and prevention and rehabilitation purposes of the effect on the human body of fresh water in pure form or with the addition of various substances. The main types of hydrotherapy used in the clinic of internal diseases are souls and baths.
