[Sanatorium-health resort treatment of patients with progressive neuromuscular diseases].

The efficacy of balneo- and peloidotherapy of 280 children suffering from various forms of progressing myodystrophies was evaluated. A marked improvement was registered in 64%, and an insignificant improvement in 10.5% of the children. To determine the optimal therapeutic combination for one or another from the disease and its gravity the results obtained in children who received combinations to different balneofactors (radon or sulfur baths) were compared. As control, fresh-water baths were taken, the other factors of the therapeutic complex being equal. The time course of the clinical, biochemical, and electrophysiological findings has shown that is is quite expedient to treat children suffering from Kugelberg-Welander amyotrophy with sulfur and radon baths. As to children with initial forms of Duchenne's myopathy it was found preferable to treat them with sulfur waters. The treatment complex should include, besides the baths, therapeutic exercises, oxygen therapy, mud or ozokerite applications, as well as general roborant therapy.