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Article: The Role of Biofeedback in Asthma.
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- Alternative Medicine Alert
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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The Role of Biofeedback in Asthma
By Georges Ramalanjaona, MD, DSc, MBA, FACEP
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways. Airway inflammation causes recurrent episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing. These episodes of asthma symptoms usually are associated with widespread but variable airflow obstruction that often is reversible either spontaneously or with treatment..sup.1 More than 17 million people in the United States have asthma, including nearly 5 million children. Each year, asthma results in 2 million emergency department visits with nearly half a million hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths. As a ...