Breathing exercises can help with asthma

Breathing exercises can cut asthma symptoms by a third - Independent

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"A breathing technique for asthma sufferers developed 40 years ago has been proved for the first time to cut symptoms of breathlessness by a third.

The Papworth method is a sequence of breathing and relaxation exercises devised at Papworth hospital, Cambridgeshire, in the 1960s.

Patients and physiotherapists believed it worked, but it fell out of favour among Britain's five million asthma sufferers who came to rely on medication. Now, researchers have demonstrated its effectiveness in what is believed to be the first randomised, controlled trial of the method - the gold standard in medical research.

The technique is aimed at curbing "over-breathing" - the rapid shallow breaths at the top of the chest taken by people when they are under stress. The aim is to encourage gentler, more relaxed breathing, using the abdomen and diaphragm rather than the chest.

Elizabeth Holloway, a research physiotherapist with more than 30 years' clinical experience, who led the study, said: "It is about breathing like Richard Burton [the Welsh actor] who delivered his lines from deep down in his abdomen. It is not just psychological, it is physical - patients need to learn to drop their shoulders, relax their tummies and breathe calmly and appropriately. They gain greater control and confidence.""

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