fering from mild asthma, yoga breathing exercises
can help you reduce the use of low-dose inhalers in case of
wheezing attacks.
More studies are required in ways of improving breathing
control, say researchers at the Respiratory Medicine Unit, City
University, Nottingham. Western medicine, they say, has largely
ignored Breathing control methods.
Practitioners of yoga have believed for the longest time in the
benefits of =EBpranayama’, a breathing exercises for asthmatics.
But, this has been difficult to study in a formal, scientific
manner. A Pink City Lung is a device that imposes slow
breathing on the user, mimicking pranayama breathing exercises.
This device made it possible to measure, in a hospital trial,
the effects of controlled breathing.
Tests were done on two simulated pranayama breathing exercises.
The first was slow, deep breathing and the second involved
breathing out for twice as long you breathe in.
The airways of asthma patients become restricted, making it
difficult for them to breathe. It is well documented that
asthma is on the rise around the world, and especially in the
UK, having affected more than three million adults and
children. It is responsible for nearly 2,000 deaths in the UK
every year.
Standard clinical tests carried out by doctors to measure the
volume of air blown out per second by the patients and to test
their airways for irritability. Subsequent to yoga breathing
exercises, the patients’ airways were found to be less
irritable by about two times. This is a dramatic improvement,
which resulted from the yoga breathing exercises.
So, to conclude, asthma patients can certainly benefit by
experimenting with breathing exercises, although they should
not stop their medication. Simply by using some of the
controlled breathing principles taught in yoga, they can
instantly see a noticeable difference in their reliance on
inhalers. If you do know someone who is suffering from asthma,
make sure to inform them about some of the studies related to
yoga and its affects on breathing.
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