CURRENT STATE AND PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PEDIATRIC BALNEOLOGY AND PHYSIOTHERAPY

Abstract

One of the most important directions for the development of pediatric balneology is to improve the sanatorium-resort treatment of children. The Government of Russia has adopted the Decree No. 2581-r dated Nov. 26, 2018 on the strategic development of the Russian sanatorium-resort facilities with the purposes as follows: increasing the availability of sanatorium-resort treatment; development of health-improving areas and resorts; the effective use of natural therapeutic resources; improvement of the material and technical base of sanatorium-resort organizations. The article highlights the main tasks to achieving the abovementioned goals, which in its turn are aimed to developing a modern regulatory framework for the sanatorium-resort organizations, increasing the availability and supply of sanatorium-resort treatment for children, including disabled children, developing medical rehabilitation in sanatorium-resort organizations, using of balneology scientific achievements in the sanatorium-resort facilities; modern methodological and scientific support for sanatorium-resort business, improvement of training of specialists in the field of pediatric balneology and ways of solving the tasks. The contemporary network of pediatric sanatorium-resort institutions is presented, which includes 491 pediatric sanatorium-resort organizations (28 % of the total number of sanatorium and resort organizations). The paper describes the main achievements of pediatric physiotherapy (PT) in recent years, a wide range of innovation technologies in PT (electrical treatment, light therapy, magnetotherapy, balneotherapy, peloid therapy, cryotherapy, etc.) for the prophylaxis, treatment and medical rehabilitation of children with various diseases. Promising directions for further development of balneology and PT in pediatrics have been identified.