Introduction: asthma is a heterogeneous disease, which is characterized by chronic inflammation of the respiratory track. Typical symptoms for this condition are wheeze, shortness of breath, chest tightness and cough. Data from World Health Organization show that 235 millions of people have asthma. The right to a health resort treatment has an insured person, who needs to be provided with some extra medical rehabilitation combined with natural health means in health resorts. Youth health resort Debeli rtič is familiar for it’s healing climate and it is the only health resort by the sea in Slovenia, specially intended for children and adolescents up to the age of 18. Purpose: to critically analyse the course of the treatment of asthma on the adolescents in Youth health resort Debeli rtič, based on the review of health documentation, and make some suggestions on how to improve the treatments. Methods: we have made retrospective analysis of 50 randomly chosen health cartons of patients between 11 and 18 years old. We analysed the physiotherapeutic programme and did an interview with the head of the rehabilitation department and head of physiotherapy department. Results: the rules of the health treatment of Institute for health insurance of Slovenia determine the type and number of physiotherapeutic services, they also determine the duration and frequency. The doctor does the initial analysis of the health status, determines the physiotherapeutic courses and goals and evaluates the success of the treatment. If necessary, the doctor also does intermediate checks during treatment. In the health resort treatment programme, specialised for respiratory diseases, can be implemented: natural factor, healing aerosol, breathing exercises, assisted coughing, durability exercises, mutual therapeutic exercises and vibration massage. They also stated the duration and frequency of the treatments. Discussion and conclusion: it would be necessary for physiotherapists to set the physiotherapeutic diagnosis and run some tests, which can be renewed during treatment and by that the progress of the patients can be seen. It would be necessary to improve the content of the mutual therapeutic exercises and durability exercises. According to the literature the chlorinated water can be harmful for children ’s health, and durability exercises are implemented in the chlorinated pool with sea water, it would be better to move those exercises to the sea maybe, or outside in the nature or in a gym. A nutrition advisor can also be implemented in the health process in the health resorts.
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