Massage of Children with Bronchopulmonary Diseases

Abstract

The article analyzes the use of massage as a mean of physical rehabilitation of children with bronchopulmonary diseases. The main purpose of massage during bronchopulmonary diseases is to balance basic nervous processes in the central nervous system, to improve the drainage function of the bronchi and the entire respiratory system, to eliminate bronchospasm, to improve lungs’ ventilation, to normalize
tone of respiratory muscles, to increase flexibility and mobility of the chest, to prevent complications, to perform enhancement of drugs and to increase remission period for chronic diseases. Purpose of the article –to analyze application features of massage in children with bronchopulmonary diseases. Methods of research – analysis, synthesis, systematization and comparison of data of scientific and methodical literature on massage at bronchopulmonary diseases. Therapeutic massage is used at all stages of rehabilitation
of children with bronchopulmonary diseases. The technique of massage depends on the disease, its period and the individual patient. Preference is given to techniques of classical and segmental-reflex massage, often
performing them in the drainage position. All methods highlighted chest massage or lung meridians massage (with acupressure), but analyzed methods have different recommendations for initial
positions (sitting, lying on back, lying on stomach in the drainage position) and volume surfaces, in addition to the chest massage (nose and nasolabial triangle, limbs, indirect massage of the diaphragm and heart).