[Sports in the multidisciplinary treatment of the asthmatic child]

A comparative analytical study was undertaken in 18 asthmatic children were incorporated in a physical rehabilitation program participating in swimming and physical exercises which lasted one year. During this time their parents also attended an informative course so that they could obtain a greater understanding of the illness and its treatment as well as their having received familial psychiatric evaluations which focussed on a better solution to the conflicts this illness presents. Significant changes were noted in the spirometrical results being those as noted FEV1 (p less than 0.0125) as apposed to FVC (NS), and FEF 25-75% (NS). The results obtained from the flexibility and resistance exercises were statistically significant in comparison to the velocity ones which were not (NS), the psychiatric evaluations show a better familiar relations less manipulated and less agressions between asthmatic children and his parents. We have come to the conclusion that participation in sports, specifically swimming, is a necessary activity for the integral treatment of the asthmatic patients.