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Breathing exercises for asthma
DIR By: LightMove
Date: November 3, 2021, 4:26 am
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Background
Asthma is a lung disease. Asthma works in two ways. It that
causes the airways to become inflamed (the body's response to
injury and infection) and it causes the small tubes of the
airways to tighten (called airway obstruction). The tightening
of the tubes can happen in response to asthma triggers, such as
animal fur or feathers, dust or pollen.
Asthma is very common worldwide and is a major public health
problem due to the high healthcare costs associated with
hospitalisation and medication. Breathing exercises have been
used to treat people with asthma as a way of controlling the
symptoms of asthma without medication. People use various
breathing techniques to change their breathing pattern.
Review question
We wanted to find out how effective breathing exercises are for
adults with asthma. We were most interested to know if breathing
exercises improved people's quality of life (our primary
outcome), and also if they helped improve asthma symptoms,
hyperventilation (over-breathing), and lung function (our
secondary outcomes).
Key results
We searched for randomised controlled trials. This means people
were selected at random to try either breathing exercises or a
control. We included education about asthma or usual asthma care
as the controls.
We found 22 studies involving 2880 adults with mild to moderate
asthma. The studies used different breathing exercises. Fourteen
studies used yoga, four studies used breathing retraining, one
study used Buteyko method, one study used Buteyko method and
pranayama, one study used Papworth method and one study used
deep diaphragmatic breathing. Twenty studies compared breathing
exercises with normal asthma care and two compared breathing
exercises with asthma education. Studies assessed quality of
life, asthma symptoms and hyperventilation symptoms, number of
acute exacerbations (flare-ups), lung function (breathing
tests), and general practitioner (GP) appointments.
Several studies looked at our primary outcome, quality of life.
The results showed an improvement in quality of life after three
months in the breathing-exercises group. We found that breathing
exercises probably did not help to improve asthma symptoms.
However, breathing exercises did improve hyperventilation
symptoms, when measured from four months after starting the
exercises to six months. One lung function test, percentage of
predicted FEV1 (the amount of air you can force from your lungs
in one second) showed some improvement in the people who did
breathing exercises.
Certainty of the evidence
We are moderately certain about the benefits of breathing
exercises. However, we found some differences between the
studies in terms of type of breathing exercises performed,
number of participants enrolled, number and duration of sessions
completed, outcomes reported and statistical presentation of
data.
Conclusion
Breathing exercises may have positive effects on quality of
life, hyperventilation symptoms, and lung function in adults
with mild to moderate asthma. Therefore, you can choose to use a
breathing exerciser such as OPUMP to help you carry out
standardized and effective breathing
exercises.
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