[The effect of medical gymnastics on the external respiratory function of patients with infectious-allergic bronchial asthma under ambulatory treatment].

A new treatment of bacterial asthma involving therapeutic exercise, massage and using a special respiration regulator improving bronchial permeability is proposed. The treatment was conducted in 118 patients aged 22-68 with 1-17-year history of asthma. The set of exercises proposed, especially in application of the regulator, improves external respiration, bronchial permeability, helps to reduce hyperventilation and arterial hypoxemia.