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respiratory system
asthma
physical medicine
exercise
mild aerobic exercise: esp. swimming
breathing exercises:
principles -
- strengthen respiratory muscles
- eliminate inefficient use of accessory muscles
- replace forceful breathing, which compresses airways, with relaxed breathing
- gross hyperventilation can be reduced by increased expiration
- reduced sensation of breathlessness increased diaphragmatic excursion
- enhance clearing of airways
- give patient confidence to withstand breathlessness
help control acute attack:
- sit leaning forward with head on arms, arms resting on table
- lying semiprone, with arms and legs slightly bent and relaxed, body and limbs well supported by pillows
- qigong: pronunciation exercises
- qigong: relaxation exercises
hydrotherapy
hot fomentation:
for acute asthma
- steam inhalation
- spinal pack
- Russian bath
fever treatments: to prevent asthma, one to three times per week
peroxide bath
constitutional hydrotherapy; but contraindicated in acute asthma
heating compress: if acute then hot first 5-10 min.
acute attack: garlic hot water
manipulation
percussion to thorax
Chapman's reflex: check and treat points between ribs 3 and 4 either side of sternum and/or between ribs 4 and 5 either side of sternum, then check and treat points either side of SP between T4 and T5
complete asthma reflex treatment
Spondylotherapy: concussion over C4, C5 and T3, T4
spine: check and align T1, T2, T10, T11, T12
electrical and oscillating
diathermy: to back
infrared: to back
Galvanic: pulse 80, 10 min.
- (-) to sternum
- (+) to cervical
interferential: full sweep, 10 min. over back
sine: surging, small pad over sternum, large pad over cervical vertebra
electrospinal therapy: T1, T2, T3, T4 if inhalation difficult; C1, C2, C7 if exhalation difficult
footnotes