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Breathing Exercises in Asthma

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Breathing Exercises in Asthma

  • Indications
  1. Uncontrolled Asthma, Severe Asthma or Difficult to Treat Asthma
  • Mechanism
  1. Patient learns to control their breathing pattern and prevent Hyperventilation
  • Technique
  1. Papworth Method
    1. Nasal breathing
    2. Relaxation Techniques
    3. Holloway (2007) Thorax 62(12):1039-42 +PMID:17573445 [PubMed]
      1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2094294/
  2. Buteyko Method
    1. Reduced Tidal Volume and Respiratory Rate
    2. Yoga
    3. Buteyko Video
      1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKaUEVnducI
  • Efficacy
  1. Improves quality of life, Asthma symptoms, lung function
  2. Reduces Asthma Exacerbations
  3. Santino (2020) Cochrane Database Syst Rev (3): CD001277 [PubMed]
  • References
  1. Narasimhan (2021) Am Fam Physician 103(5): 286-90 [PubMed]