Relationship between dysfunctional breathing patterns and ability to achieve target heart rate variability with features of "coherence" during biofeedback

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 38-44

  Courtney, Rosalba ^a   Cohen, Marc ^a   van Dixhoorn, Jan ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Breathing Therapy Center   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING EXERCISE; BREATHING RATE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

ADULT; ASTHMA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING EXERCISES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RESPIRATORY RATE;

EID: 84855377326     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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