If you can see a picture or a movie, you may be more likely to watch and remember some important health information. About.com has a wonderful collection of videos to help you understand more about your asthma and your lungs. Check them out and let me know what you think.
- What Is Bronchitis?
Bronchitis can complicate your asthma. Learn what bronchitis is and what you can do about it. - Can Thunderstorms Cause An Asthma Attack
Do you ever notice that your asthma is worse after a thunderstorm? Learn why this happens in this interesting video. - How to Use a Rescue Inhaler
Are you using your asthma inhaler correctly? Find out here.
What other videos would you like to see related to asthma?
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Awesome! It is a very informative video for asthma patients
and their caretakers.
A relevant but strangely ignored or not generally known fact about asthma is that the change between weak (asthmatic) and strong (healthy) breathing is dependent on abdominal muscle tension. Slackening the muscles here causes abysmally weak and asthmatic breathing. Training the muscles, for example by “abdominal hollowing” (see Web articles) produces an antiasthmatic effect. Abdominal muscle tension plays a prominent part in Asiatic martial arts. I tend to breathe asthmatically after an evening meal. Breathing powerfully into my lower abdomen with tensed muscles provides an effective cure for me. But then I’ve always been sceptical about medical wisdom on asthma. Respectively, Richard Friedel