Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Monday, August 21, 2006

Hypnotherapy as a resource for asthma patients

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More than five million people in the United Kingdom receive treatment for asthma with around 20 per cent of households having someone diagnosed as asthmatic.

The condition affects the respiratory system when the muscles around the airway walls tighten and narrow with the lining of the small airways to the lungs – the bronchioles - becoming inflamed and swollen .

This results in difficulty breathing and symptoms include coughing, wheezing, tight feelings in the chest and breathlessness.

For more than forty years various research studies have indicated that hypnotherapy can be an effective means of helping asthmatic patients control, reduce and in some cases, eliminate their condition.