Respiratory Health
5 Effective Exercises to Overcome Asthma
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By Apollo 24/7, Published on - 06 November 2020, Updated on - 15 January 2023
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What is asthma?
What triggers asthma?
- Allergy-induced asthma, which is caused by airborne particles like pollen, dust mites, pet dander, and mould spores.
- Non-allergic asthma, in which external factors such as medications, stress, infections, food additives, and weather, trigger it.
- Exercise-induced asthma is triggered by strenuous physical activity and is commonly seen in athletes.
- Occupational asthma, which flares up due to workplace irritants like chemical fumes, gases, or dust.
Exercises that help asthma patients
- Swimming
- Running, walking, or biking
- Yoga and breathing exercises
- Diaphragmatic or belly breathing - This technique maximizes the distribution of air within the lungs. This breathing exercise strengthens and uses the diaphragm, a dome-shaped large muscle below the lungs. The diaphragm is one of the major muscles that helps to breathe by pushing more air into and out of the lungs. As the air gets easily trapped in the lungs of people suffering from severe asthma, the practice of this exercise helps to completely remove the used air from the lungs. One should make sure that while breathing in, the stomach moves outward but the chest remains at the same place (this can be monitored by placing one hand on the stomach and the other on the chest). Also, exhalation must be slow through pursed lips (tightly pressed).
- Pursed lip breathing – This exercise helps the lungs and diaphragm work well, to improve the flow of air in and out of the body. It requires to position the lips like one is trying to blow out candles on a cake. By slowing down the breathing, the technique allows one to get more air into the lungs and flush out stale air caught in the lungs. It involves breathing in through the nose and breathing out slowly through the mouth with exhalation twice as long as inhalation.
- Breathing retraining
- Papworth method
- Buteyko breathing
- Respiratory therapy or pulmonary rehabilitation
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