Breathing exercises for adults with asthma.
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SUBMITTER: Santino TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7096190 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
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Breathing exercises for adults with asthma.
Santino Thayla A TA Chaves Gabriela Ss GS Freitas Diana A DA Fregonezi Guilherme Af GA Mendonça Karla Mpp KM
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 20200325
<h4>Background</h4>Breathing exercises have been widely used worldwide as a non-pharmacological therapy to treat people with asthma. Breathing exercises aim to control the symptoms of asthma and can be performed as the Papworth Method, the Buteyko breathing technique, yogic breathing, deep diaphragmatic breathing or any other similar intervention that manipulates the breathing pattern. The training of breathing usually focuses on tidal and minute volume and encourages relaxation, exercise at hom ...[more]
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