title: [Pilates breathing exercise method as a form of pneumological rehabilitation in children and youths with bronchiale asthma].
abstract: Asthma is a chronic and inflammatory disease of the respiratory tract, where its basis is of allergic origin. It is not only a severe health problem in Poland, but as well as in the whole world. Besides pharmacotherapy, which is the basic form of bronchial asthma treatment pneumological rehabilitation is also used. Innovative form of this rehabilitation is Pilates method, in which exercises are concentrated on rib-diaphragram way of breathing.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Alergologii i Rehabilitacji Oddechowej UM w Łodzi.
authors.forename: Waldemar
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wroński
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nowak
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001945:Breathing Exercises; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests