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Area of Science:

  • Respiratory Medicine
  • Pulmonology
  • Non-pharmacological Therapies

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  • Breathing exercises are a widely used non-pharmacological therapy for asthma management.
  • Techniques include the Papworth Method, Buteyko breathing, and yogic breathing, focusing on pattern modification and nasal breathing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the efficacy of breathing exercises in managing asthma.
  • To synthesize evidence from randomized controlled trials on breathing exercises for asthma.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving adults with asthma.
  • Searched multiple databases including Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and AMED.
  • Assessed quality of life, asthma symptoms, hyperventilation symptoms, and lung function (FEV1).

Main Results:

  • Breathing exercises showed moderate-certainty evidence for improving quality of life at three months.
  • Moderate-certainty evidence indicated a reduction in hyperventilation symptoms at four to six months compared to inactive controls.
  • Evidence for improvements in asthma symptoms and lung function (FEV1) was inconclusive or of very low certainty.

Conclusions:

  • Breathing exercises may offer benefits for quality of life and hyperventilation symptoms in asthma.
  • The certainty of evidence is moderate to very low due to methodological limitations and heterogeneity in studies.
  • Further high-quality research with detailed methodology is required to confirm these findings.