Jelena Tereza Čepo
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: Astma is a chronic inflammation associated with airway hyperactivity leading to reccurent episodes, shortness of breath, chest tightness and coughing.
Aim: To investigate the impact of physiotherapy interventions in patients with asthma.
Materials and methods: By electronic literature search of the available database such Medline (Pub med) and Bibliographic database. The keywords used for search purposes are: physiotherapy and asthma.
Results: 5 original researches related to the aim of researching this paper were obtained by shutdown process.
Conclusion: Respiratory physiotherapy can improve quality of life, cardiopulmonary fitness, reduce symptoms and the need for medications in patient with asthma.
Key words: physiotherapy, asthma, quality of life