A breathing technique known as ‘Papworth method’ that was introduced some 40 years before to bring down the symptoms of asthma is again attracting experts’ attraction with resulting showing significantly greater improvement in respiratory symptoms in patients undergoing this very method.

Although this treatment was carved out long ago in the 1960s at Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, yet no trails were ever carried out to test its efficacy. However, Drs. Elizabeth A. Holloway and Robert J. West, from University College London studied the affect of Papworth method in around 85 asthma patients and concluded that Papworth method was quite effective in lowering asthma symptoms in these patients.

Whatever has come out from this observation has further bolstered the reliability of Papworth method. Expressing similar view, authors say:

To our knowledge, this is the first evidence from a controlled trial to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Papworth method.

[Source:asthma blog] 

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