SWIMMING TRAINING IN A HOT SPRING POOL AS THERAPY FOR STEROID-DEPENDENT ASTHMA

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  • Tanizaki Yoshiro
    Department of Medicine, Okayama University Medical School, Misasa Branch Hospital
  • Komagoe Haruki
    Department of Medicine, Okayama University Medical School, Misasa Branch Hospital
  • Sudo Michiyasu
    Department of Medicine, Okayama University Medical School, Misasa Branch Hospital
  • Morinaga Hiroshi
    Department of Medicine, Okayama University Medical School, Misasa Branch Hospital
  • Ohtani Jun
    2nd Department of Medicine, Okayama University Medical School
  • Tada Shinya
    2nd Department of Medicine, Okayama University Medical School
  • Takahashi Kiyoshi
    2nd Department of Medicine, Okayama University Medical School
  • Kimura Ikuro
    2nd Department of Medicine, Okayama University Medical School

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  • 気管支喘息の温水プール水泳訓練療法 : ステロイド依存性重症難治性喘息を中心に

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Fourteen patients with bronchial asthma, including 13 steroid-dependent cases, had a spa therapy(swimming training in a hot spring pool)for three months. The clinical effects of the spa therapy on intractable asthma were then evaluated by ventilatory function test and clinical symptoms. 1.Ventilatory functioon tests demonstrated that the values of FVC, FEV_<1.0>, MMF, PEFR, V_<50> and V_<25> were not affected by 30 minutes' swimming training in the hot spring pool. 2.Improvement of the ventilatory function observed in the majority of the asthmatic subjects during the 3 months' swimming training led to the reduction of the corticosteroid dose administered. The rate of increase in each parameter after 3 months'training was 100.5% in FVC, 110% in FEV_<1.0>, 124.8% in PEFR, 123.2% in MMF, 126.9% in V_<50> and 130.6% in V_<25>. 3. The swimming training was more effective in bronchiolar obstruction and bronchospasm-hyperscretion types of bronchial asthma than in bronchospasm type.

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