The effect of Buteyko breathing on carbon dioxide tolerance
Item
- Title
- The effect of Buteyko breathing on carbon dioxide tolerance
- Author(s)
- Patricio Mario
- Abstract
- The study was carried out to determine whether a four-week programme of Buteyko breathing would significantly improve CO2 tolerance. The study consisted of fifteen subjects who were taught how to Buteyko breath over four weeks and five subjects who received no training over four weeks. Ventilatory carbon dioxide, respiratory rate, heart rate, and energy expenditure was recorded with use of a Cortex Biophysik Meta Lyser 3B stationary CPX system with use of the Cortex Metasoft 2.0 CPX testing software. Blood pressure and breath holding was also measured. All data was analysed using a one way ANOVA test including a Tukeys post hoc test. Significant findings were found with ventilatory carbon dioxide (P=0.057) which increased by 10.7%, breath holding time (P<0.0001) which increased by 53%, heart rate (P=0.0193) which reduced by 0.68%, and energy expenditure (P=0.0398) which increased by 10.3%. The study failed to show any significant differences with regard to respiratory rate and blood pressure. The findings imply that the respiratory control centres can be reset to accept higher levels of carbon dioxide through Buteyko breathing. However further studies are needed to clearly determine this.
- presented at
- British College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Date Accepted
- 0
- Date Submitted
- 1.1.1970 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13685
- Inst-Identifier
- 1076
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Patricio Mario, “The effect of Buteyko breathing on carbon dioxide tolerance”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed April 19, 2024, https://www.osteopathic-research.com/s/orw/item/1072