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Current
NHS Choices : Complementary Therapies in asthma treatment
There is good evidence that breathing exercises, including breathing exercises taught by a physiotherapist, yoga and
the Buteyko method can improve symptoms and reduce the need for reliever medicines in some people.
12 November 2009
Informed Health online - Asthma: Does breathing training help?
Training in breathing techniques could help people relax. Whether it can also relieve asthma is still not quite clear.
2 November 2009
New York Times : A breathing technique offers help for people with asthma
April 2009
Nurses to be trained to teach Buteyko Breathing Technique to asthmatics
7 March 2009
Breathe easy - and take control over your asthma
5 May 2008
The Buteyko Technique is recommended by the British Thoracic Society for the control of asthma symptoms
Quick Reference Guide page 7
12 February 2008
Randomised controlled trial of the Buteyko technique as a adjunct to conventional management of asthma
Dr Robert Cowie et al. Respiratory Medicine.
28 June 2007
Breathing technique 'aids asthma'
Dr Mike Thomas, Senior Research Fellow at Asthma UK, welcomed the study. "It is also consistent with other studies from Australia and the UK which show that breathing exercises can help to reduce the need for reliever medication and can improve the quality of life of people with asthma.
1 December 2006
Buteyko in the NHS. A pilot study
19 June 2006
Treatment could save asthma cash
A Cornish GP who has carried out a pilot study of a drugs-free asthma treatment says it could save the NHS millions of pounds.
5 June 2006
Two different breathing techniques in the management of asthma
16 February 2004
The Sunday Telegraph 16th February 2004
Dr James Le Fanu reports on an asthma 'cure' to take your breath away
...Clearly there must be more to asthma than conventional explanations allow. "Buteyko's method is a safe, efficacious alternative for the management of asthma," observed Dr Bruce Duncan in the New Zealand Medical Journal in December - and with an estimated five million asthmatics in Britain being treated at a cost of £850 million per annum, that is an important message.