Correction of the breathing in the treatment of bronchial asthma by means of biological feedback
Anokhin, M.I.; Sergeev, V.N.; Domanskiĭ, V.L.
Meditsinskaia Tekhnika 1996(1): 26-29
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8075 PMID: 8868392 Document Number: 468173
The development of nondrug therapies for bronchial asthma (BA) is highly pressing. The application of respiration-correcting methods and means that implement a principle of biological feedback (BFB) is one of the promising lines. To polish procedures for practical work and to evaluate their efficiency, a respiration corrector has been devised, which visualizes a patient's external respiration rhythm and synchronizes it with the reference rhythm whose parameters are set by a physician or by a patient himself. The efficiency of BFB technique was evaluated in the treatment of BA in children. Studies using the device were done 2-3 times a day with 15-20 min in each session. The treatment regime averaged a fortnight. Its application relieved the occurred episode without drugs in most children with mild and moderate BA, prevented attacks and made them fewer, prolonged remission, and reduced the amount of bronchodilatating agents to be used. BFB correction made under the polyclinic setting is indicated for patients with mild and moderate atopic BA in the episode, postepisode, and interepisode periods and contraindicated for patients with severe BA when they have an episode. Treating BA via BFB correction diminishes psychosomatic disorders: anxiety, bronchodilator dependence, fear of a recurrent episode, whining, irritability, and insomnia.