Buteyko Clinic News and Updates

• Just released - The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AHRQ, after reviewing 22 studies of breathing techniques, finds the Buteyko breathing technique achieves “medium to large improvements in asthma symptoms and reductions in reliever medications”. The AHRQ findings mirror studies by the British Thoracic Society in 2008 and The Australian Department of Health and Aging in 2005

• To make it easier to pay for our Buteyko workshops, 6 month financing is now available via PayPal. Click to read Terms and Conditions.
  
  

• Buteyko Clinic USA celebrated its four years of service in November!
  
  We are based in Minneapolis – St Paul, MN, USA, but are truly countrywide and worldwide service. Having helped more than hundred of people directly, as well as hundreds more through educational materials, we pride ourselves in highly customized and caring approach to breathing education overall and to each individual client in particular. Our students are people with wide variety of heath conditions, of different age groups, diverse cultures. Over years we’ve matured and perfected our approach, added convenient learning options and schedules - online classes, accelerated classes, tryout options, monthly support, AND along with flexible payment schedules. If you'd like to improve your health, there truly should be no reason not to take a Buteyko Breathing course with us! Warm thank you(s) to all our clients, supporters and fellow Practitioners who are helping to sustain the Buteyko practices in the US and worldwide. Wishing everybody Happy Holiday Season, enjoyable meals, precious time with friends and family and, not to forget, calm breathing throughout the season and beyond!

• Breathing Exercises and/or Retraining Techniques in the Treatment of Asthma: Comparative Effectiveness
  
  Recently published (September 2012) For Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  
  "Hyperventilation reduction techniques provided the strongest evidence for improvement in asthma symptoms and reliever medication use, including the only large-scale trial and the applicability to U.S. health care systems was the best (although still limited, since no trials were conducted in the United States). Reductions in asthma symptoms (when they occurred) were likely clinically significant: standardized effect sizes were frequently greater than 0.80, which is considered a large effect, and scale scores for symptoms and quality of life often changed in an amount associated with clinically significant differences."

• Large Buteyko technique study is coming up in New Zealand!

• If you live in Minneapolis –St Paul area and would like to join me for a local TV station interview to share your experience with the Buteyko Method, please contact me (Eugenia) via Facebook or Contact Us page

• More doctors recommend Buteyko , not only for asthma, but for CFS, fibromyalgia, anxiety, chronic hyperventilation syndrome and more. Wonderful trend!

• Call for nurses to teach Buteyko asthma technique. Conventional medical world in the UK is way ahead of the US in recognizing the benefits of the Buteyko Breathing technique!

• "A survey of physios practising Buteyko has highlighted strong support for the technique, particularly in treating conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). James Oliver, a Cornwall GP who runs Buteyko courses throughout the country, surveyed 19 physios, mostly respiratory specialists, trained in the technique. He presented his findings to the British Thoracic Society... Three-quarters said they found integrating the techniques into conventional physiotherapy either 'moderately easy' or 'very easy'. Some 72 per cent rated the method very useful in treating asthma. Seventy-two per cent also rated it very useful or quite useful in treating hyperventilation and COPD. Furthermore, 89 per cent said they would recommend that other respiratory physios learn to teach the method."

• Wonderful book, describing the history of the Buteyko Method, Doctor Buteyko's Discovery Trilogy, Volume 1 is available for purchase

• We've launched a website dedicated to Buteyko online courses, self study and online support. No matter where you live, you can learn the Buteyko Breathing method by taking our online course without leaving your home, at your own pace, on your own schedule. Flexible payment schedule is available!

• New testimonials on our Success Stories page. Your success story could be next!

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• Buteyko Clinic adds new Buteyko Courses. For complete description and pricing information please refer to Our Programs page.
  
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