Asthma Treatments

Posted by Anna May Shimaru | February 1st, 2010 in Respiratory Problems | No Comments »

asthma treatments

Fundamental objectives of respiratory rehabilitation:
1. Improve cardiovascular function respiratoria.
2. Prevent or treat complications without employing invasivos.
3. Prepare the patient and / or family to acquire responsibility for their rehabilitación.
4. Take steps to óptima.
5 medical care. Reduce the number of recaídas.
6. Decrease disnea.
7. Increased ability to esfuerzo.
8. Educate the patient and family for a realistic face with his illness.
9. Guarantee the individual and / or a more active, productive and emotionally satisfactoria.The assisted physiotherapy techniques can be performed even in infants.


Most popular are:
Postural Drainage:
Method, combined with various breathing techniques and various decubitus position using the force of gravity, facilitates the passage of mucus from segmental to lobar ramifications of these to the main bronchi and trachea to be expelled or swallowed .

Positions. As drain segment, assisted cough accompanied by vibrations and other maneuvers. Time: 10 to 15 minutes

Training in the Use of the Diaphragm:

1.-Put one of our hands on the abdomen of the patient, without pressure and that this breathing down our hand and raising, raising awareness and breathing diafragmática.
2 .- Patient Using both hands, one on his chest and one on abdomen, we ask that you focus your breathing by raising and lowering your left hand-inferiormente.
3. Using a ball of air with minimal weight on the abdomen, raising or lowering this during breathing.

Block:
Consists of the pressure exerted on the chest, as trafficked area for 4 to 5 respiratory cycles, aims to improve lung ventilation through a redistribution of airflow to bad areas or reexpansion ventiladas.Descompresión: Maneuver kinesics consisting to lift the blockade on the inspiratory act, thereby obtaining a change of pressure and airflow resistance in the bronchial tree, providing further mobilization of secretions and promoting lung ventilation

Drainage dynamic Autogenous.
Is a methodology that is taught to the patient (age 8 +), or does the therapist, and is to apply various pressures to produce different ventilatory flows in certain control points, and aims at bringing secretions the periphery to the center of the respiratory tract to be expelled or swallowed.

Contraindications for physiotherapy.

When the child is not in secretory phase.

During asthma attacks.
The percussion instruments are not made in case of bronchospasm, emphysema or pleural effusion.


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