Physical Fitness for Asthmatic Boys

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FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES physicians and physical educators have been aware of the desirability of adapted physical activity patterns for exceptional children among whom would be asthmatic children. These asthmatic children need help in combatting the degenerative effects of chronic bronchial asthma and in making an adequate personality adjustment. In January, 1960, an allergist and an assistant professor of physical education at the University of Texas launched a unique pilot study to (1) determine if a carefully designed physical fitness program would decrease the physical and emotional handicaps of asthmatic children, and (2) obtain evidence of asthmatic children's response to more strenuous physical activities than heretofore experienced. A review of the literature reveals that since 1935 studies have utilized supervised respiratory and limited physical exercises to improve respiration in patients with bronchial asthma. Livingstone and Gillespie,1Baker,2Fein, Cox, and Green,3and Fein and Cox4

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