Issue №4-21, 2022

Children’s Balneotherapy and Physiotherapy: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: a Review



1,2,3 ORCIDMaya A. Khan, 1 ORCIDIrena V. Pogonchenkova, 3 ORCIDMaria S. Petrova

1 Moscow Scientific Practical Center of Medical Rehabilitation, Restorative and Sports Medicine, Moscow, Russian Federation
2 Filatov Children’s City Clinical Hospital, Moscow, Russian Federation
3 Central State Medical Academy of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation


ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION. One of the most important directions of the development of children’s balneology is the improvement of sanatoriumresorttreatment of children. On November 26, 2018, the Russian Government approved the Strategy for the Development of theRussian Sanatorium-Resort Complex, which aims to increase the availability of health resort treatment; development of therapeuticareas and resorts; effective use of natural therapeutic resources; and improvement of the material and technical base of health resortorganizations. In recent years there has been a tendency towards intensifying scientific research in the field of children’s balneology:the problems of adaptation of children’s bodies to contrasting climatic conditions are being brought up to date; questions of medicalclimatology concerning the specific features of meteopathological reactions and the development of methods of their correctionand prevention using both natural factors and hardware physiotherapy technologies are being actively studied; scientific research onbalneotherapy – a traditionally widely used method of resort therapy – is being revived;AIM. To analyze the history of the formation of children’s balneology and physiotherapy and to assess its current state.CONCLUSION. An important area of pediatric physiotherapy is the development of personalized physiotherapy based on the provisionon the maximum effectiveness of physical treatment methods applied taking into account the individual characteristics of the youngpatient’s body. Today, innovative physiotherapy technologies are widely included in individual medical rehabilitation programs forchildren with various diseases. Thus, nowadays, children’s balneology and physiotherapy have a good theoretical, methodological andpersonnel base for the effective solution of urgent problems in pediatrics. Advances in the study of the mechanism of therapeutic actionof natural and artificial physical factors open up new prospects in the development of innovative technologies of resort pediatrics andphysiotherapy. Unsolved problems determine promising directions for the development of balneology and physiotherapy in pediatrics.


KEYWORDS: children’s balneology, physiotherapy, health resort treatment, medical rehabilitation

For citation: Khan M.A., Pogonchenkova I.V., Petrova M.S. Children’s Balneotherapy and Physiotherapy: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: a Review. Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine. 2022; 21 (4): 10-16. https://doi.org/10.38025/2078-1962-2022-21-4-10-16



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