Introduction: Tonsillar hypertrophy is one of the most common illnesses among children. The tradition- al treatment involves a series of different drugs. Un- fortunately, the effect is often short-lived, and that re- quires finding other more effective methods that are not so hard on the body.
Goal: To study the effectiveness of a complex of physical factors in treating tonsillar hyperplasia in children and the associated with it symptoms of sleep disordered breathing (SDB).
Materials and methods: 50 children 3-10 years old diagnosed with tonsillar hypertrophy level 3+,4+ and one or several symptoms of SDB with or without behavioral issues, that have gone through the physio- therapy ward with Medical center `Sv. Marina` Var- na. Therapy with ultrasound and polarized, polychro- matic, incoherent low energy light has been carried out.
Results: 78% of the participating children exhib- ited a notable decrease in the size of the tonsils that correlates with a reduction of the symptoms of SDB (p<0.001). The positive results observed in the tracked parameters gives us ground to think , that the applied physiotherapeutic treatment can serve as an alternative to the drug based treatment, when possible or be carried out alongside it as a means of increasing effec- tiveness in children with tonsillar hypertrophy.
Conclusion: The developed physiotherapeutically methods can not only serve as a means of treatments, but can also be used as a means of prophylaxis in chil- dren that have a higher risk of developing tonsillar hy- pertrophy, to prevent further development of SDB.
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