Mar 25, 2014 | Exercises to Combat Asthma
To find out if you are breathing with your diaphragm: ✦ Hold one hand across your breastbone and the other hand on your tummy. At rest there should be no upper chest movement and only very small movement of the tummy. The tummy will...
Mar 25, 2014 | Exercises to Combat Asthma
Breathing through the nose at night While sleeping it is important to breathe only through your nose. Mouth breathing will reverse the benefits of reduced breathing during the day. If you neglect your breathing for seven or eight hours...
Mar 25, 2014 | Exercises to Combat Asthma
Many patients tell me that their symptoms are worse during the night or first thing in the morning. Some even say that it takes them hours every morning to get their breathing right. Symptoms such as a blocked nose, excessive mucus, tiredness, chest tightness, ...
Mar 25, 2014 | Exercises to Combat Asthma
For people with asthma, speaking for long periods of time can trigger symptoms. Frequently at workshops people remark: ‘my coughing really starts at a meeting, or when I speak for long periods.’ There is a direct relationship between a person’s...
Mar 25, 2014 | Exercises to Combat Asthma
Slight colds contribute to asthma symptoms. Every time you blow your nose, some carbon dioxide is lost. Blowing your nose too much will result in an excessive loss of carbon dioxide. This will lead to an increase in the production of mucus, and you will...
