There are a wide number of complaints where positive results can be achieved with the use of correct breathing techniques.
The Respilex breathing and relaxation training is not so specifically directed at reducing the said complaints and symptoms, but is more directed at the overstrain / over-exertion that possibly feeds this. Next to this an optimal breathing technique can be important in reducing the complaints listed below and improved (sporting) performance.

Acute, chronic and recurring pain
  • Headache through to migraine
  • Recurring stomache pain
  • Burns
  • Acute treatment pain
Psycho-physiological problems
  • Sleeplessness
  • Stressmanagement
  • Cardiovascular rehabilitation
  • Irritable bowel syndrome
  • Changes in habits
  • Nervous ticks
Emotional / behavioural problems
  • Anxiousness
  • Depression
  • Anger management
  • Emotional disfuncionality
  • Asperges-syndrome
Learning and achieving
  • Fear of failure
  • Training for peak achievement
  • Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Syndrome
Chronic illnesses
  • Asthma
  • Fibrosis
  • Cancer
  • Atopic dermatitis
  • Diabetes type I and type II
  • Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  • Immune deficency
  • Inflammatory stomache illnesses (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis)
  • Spasticism
The following sections elaborate on how an improved breathing technique can contribute to address a number of different complaints.
Cardiovascular rehabilitation
Every year around some 275.000 in the UK suffer from a coronary heart attack and around 120000 will die.

afb_stressmanagementNext to this another ten thousand find that they have to have a heart operation. In many cases, patients that are waiting for an operation show signs of extra stress because they are conscious of the dangers of a surgical intervention that they will soon undergo.

In recent studies it was convincingly highlighted that relaxation, where breathing regulation plays an important role, plays a very favourable part in effective cardiovascular rehabilitation; in particular after a heart attack and / or an operation. On top of this, through maintaining a more or less permanent form of relaxation, which in turn is strongly facilitated by optimal breathing technques, the chances of repeat occurance are significantly reduced. Breathing regulation can then also play a meaningful part in the recovery plan, but at the same time plays a role in the prevention. Relevant in this context is that in a recent, well executed, piece of research subsidised by the Dutch Heart Foundation (Nederlandse Hartstichting), great attention was given to the regulation of breathing as part of cardiovascular rehabilitation.