Breathing Exercises for Asthma : Evidence and Practice

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Video interventionActive video teaching hypoventilation, prolonged expirationand nasal breathing techniques• Nasal route of breathing (“gentle breathing”)• Hypoventilation (“awareness of reduced breath”)• Breath hold at FRC (“breath check”) Control video teaching non-specific exercises :• Forward curl, arm raise, good posture and relaxation Each video included a demonstrated exercise session of 20minutes which subjects watched daily and performed theexercises for 20 minutes twice daily during the wholetreatment period (weeks 0 to 30) Advised to use the exercises as needed for the relief ofsymptoms in place of reliever medication. If the exercises didnot relieve symptoms, reliever medication was to be used
Symptom Score, mean (SD)Daily Asthma Symptom ScoreNSp=0.04NS4NSNSp=0.01(1=None- 5=Severe)321Week 0 Week 12 Week 28Group AGroup B
Page 1: Breathing Exercises forAsthma : Evi
Page 5: History lessonThose who do not lear
Page 9 and 10: Prevalence of dysfunctional breathi
Page 11 and 12: Prevalence of dysfunctional breathi
Page 13 and 14: Types of breathing techniques andex
Page 15 and 16: Yoga studies
Page 17 and 18: Mimicking Pranayama yoga in clinica
Page 19 and 20: Yoga studiesVempati R. et al BMC Pu
Page 21 and 22: Buteyko Breathing Technique Aims to
Page 23 and 24: Rationale for Buteykobreathing Peop
Page 25 and 26: Buteyko breathing techniques inasth
Page 27: Baseline CharacteristicsVariable Gr
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Page 33 and 34: ResultsQuality of life: no differen
Page 35 and 36: Breathing ExercisesStudy Participat
Page 37 and 38: When asked if they would use theexe
Page 40 and 41: Exercises for Asthma : an RCTBreath
Page 42 and 43: How do patients take up newpractice

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