[Respiratory values in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and the effect of kinesiotherapy]

It is known that by patients suffering from spondylitis ankylosis comes, with the development of disease, to the dispnea, which is caused by the rygid structures of the torax and by pains. In the group of 128 patients the following parameters were observed: the duration of disease, RTG of the thoracal spine, index of sagital motion (ISG), respiratory index (RI) and vital capacity (VC), and results received are in agreement with results issued in the literature by now. A group of 41 patients was separated, 20 of them were, including the standard programme, submaximally overweighted by swimming 500 m with the increase of pulse 120-160 min, and the others, 21 of them, had a standard programme. The results show considerable grow of VC in the group of overweighted patients what has to be emphasised in the patient's education.