Asthma: The Yoga Perspective Part II: Yoga Therapy in the Treatment of Asthma

Goyeche, John R. M.; Abo, Y.; Ikemi, Yujiro

doi:10.3109/02770908209104756

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“…Goyeche et al and several other workers have shown convincing evidence of the beneficial effects of yoga in patients with bronchial asthma. [1][2][3][4][5][6] Most of these studies were short term, performed without controls, or qualitative but based on subjective judgments. Our earlier investigation clearly indicated the short term (two to four weeks) benefits of yoga, as established by standard controlled studies of large numbers of patients who underwent yogic training as outpatients.…”

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Yoga for bronchial asthma: a controlled study.

Nagarathna¹,

Nagendra²

1985

BMJ

215

123

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Fifty three patients with asthma underwent training for two weeks in an integrated set of yoga exercises, including breathing exercises, suryanamaskar, yogasana (physical postures), pranayama (breath slowing techniques), dhyana (meditation), and a devotional session, and were told to practise these exercises for 65 minutes daily. They were then compared with a control group of 53 patients with asthma matched for age, sex, and type and severity of asthma, who continued to take their usual drugs. There was a significantly greater improvement in the group who practised yoga in the weekly number of attacks of asthma, scores for drug treatment, and peak flow rate.This study shows the efficacy of yoga in the long term management of bronchial asthma, but the physiological basis for this beneficial effect needs to be examined in more detail. and unknown factors. We carried out this long term study with matched controls to ascertain whether yoga could have a lasting influence on the course of the disease.Patients and methods Table I shows details of the 106 patients with established bronchial asthma satisfying the clinical criteria of Crofton and Douglas' and Shivpuri9 who were included in this study. The age range was 9-47 years with a mean of 26 4 years. There were 15 women in each group. Fifty three pairs of patients matched for age and sex and type, severity, and duration of asthma were selected from a bigger group who came to our outpatient clinic for yoga Although all 106 patients were equally motivated to take up yoga, the 53 randomly allocated patients willingly served as controls. They continued taking their usual drugs during the study.All techniques of measurement, the length of each interview, and the people recording the data were the same for both groups. The yoga group attended a training programme of two and a half hours daily from 1800 to 2030 after work for two weeks. They were introduced to an integrated programme of the following selected yoga exercises.Breathing exercises (five minutes)-five types of rhythmic, comfortable breathing techniques associated with simple hand and body movements.Sithilikarana, zyayama, and suryanamaskar (five minutes)-Yoga exercises to loosen the joints.Yogasanas-(a) General yogasanas (20 minutes). Simple physical postures (in the standing, sitting, prone, and supine positions), performed BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL VOLUME 291 with smooth, comfortable bending movements and specific slow breathing procedures. The asana practices end with the subject maintaining the final posture with the body relaxed. (b) Savasana (10 minutes). Deep relaxation to relax the muscles regionally followed by conscious slowing of breathing and calming of the mind.Pranayama (10 minutes)-Four types of special breathing techniques performed with comfortable, slow, deep breathing.Meditation and devotional session (15 minutes)-Slow mental chanting of the syllable "OM," leading to the slowing of mental activity. The devotional session was meant to harness the emotions, resulting in a feeling of free...

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Yoga for bronchial asthma: a controlled study.

Nagarathna¹,

Nagendra²

1985

BMJ

215

123

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“…The presence of psychopathology [2,4,8] and the likely association of asthmatic attacks with emotional and psychosocial disorders [9,10,26] are clear positive indications for introducing psychotherapeutical techniques in the treatment of asthmatic patients [19,20,34,35 ] . The allergical and inflammatory component needs to be treated with appropriate pharmacological agents [18].…”

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“…The psychosocial component as well as the various factors associated with autonomic learning require a psychotherapeutical intervention [12,34]. Autonomic imbalance deserves an adequate attention and treatment in order to improve the medical condition itself [23,26,35]. The very relevance of introducing autogenic therapy in rectifying autonomic disregulation in bronchial asthma needs to be stressed.…”

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Improvement of respiratory function in chronic asthmatic patients with autogenic therapy

Henry

Rivera

González-Martín

et al. 1993

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

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Abstract-Stress, unpleasant emotions and autonomic imbalance may play a main role in precipitating asthmatic attacks. In this study two homogeneous groups of asthmatic patients (N = 24) are treated over an eight-month period. The experimental group was treated with autogenic therapy and the control group with supportive group psychotherapy. Respiratory function parameters measured were Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), Forced Expiratory Volume in the first sec (FEV I), Forced Expiratory Flow between 25% and 75% of the FVC (FEF25-75%). and Mesoexpiratory Flow (MEF50%). The group under Autogenic Therapy obtained a relevant clinical improvement (> 15% of pretreatment values) in respiratory function. No significant changes were observed in the control group. These results suggest that autogenic therapy could be an effective adjunctive treatment in bronchial asthma.

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“…Biofeedback, which focuses on the ability to gain control over a perceived biological function, has been of value in COAD, 59 and yoga has been advocated for the management of asthma. 60 As no technique is universally beneficial it is probably worth referring patients with intractable breathlessness to the clinical psychologist who can try a variety of methods in the hope of finding one that is of benefit to the individual. If possible such procedures should be tried at home, as the upset and exertion of travelling to the hospital may outweigh any potential benefit for the respiratory compromised patient.…”

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Respiratory rehabilitation in the elderly patient

Connolly

1993

Rev. Clin. Gerontol.

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Asthma: The Yoga Perspective Part II: Yoga Therapy in the Treatment of Asthma

Cited by 35 publications

References 9 publications

Yoga for bronchial asthma: a controlled study.

Yoga for bronchial asthma: a controlled study.

Improvement of respiratory function in chronic asthmatic patients with autogenic therapy

Respiratory rehabilitation in the elderly patient

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