Wellness Routines
← Routines

Pursed-lip breathing

Compared in the reviewR8 · 8 full-text papers

At least one paper behind this review states what this option was measured against. That is not a ranking, and this option carries no evidence profile of its own.

Requirements it fills
  • pre-sleep wind-down
    Sleep · 1 paper put it here (inferred by the extraction, not stated in the paper)
How it is performed
  • Inspiration through the nose, expiration through the mouth while pursing the lips. Frequency: 0.1 Hz (6 breaths per minute). Duration: 3 minutes. Inspiration to expiration ratio: 1:2. Posture: Seated comfortably with upper body and arms supported.

    A. Gholamrezaei, I. Van Diest, Q. Aziz, J. Vlaeyen, L. Van Oudenhove (2020) · Psychophysiology · 10.1111/psyp.13712
    Psychophysiological responses to various slow, deep breathing techniques.
  • Sit on a chair with feet supported, inhale slowly through the nose, purse lips, exhale slowly through pursed lips.

    M. Shukla, Diksha Chauhan, Ritu Raj (2020) · Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice · 10.1016/j.ctcp.2020.101248
    Breathing exercises and pranayamas to decrease perceived exertion during breath-holding while locked-down due to COVID-19 online randomized study
Dose

Nothing states what this option's dose measures — no library step prescribes this option and its review states no dose unit.

Dose and time, as the papers state it

No row states a dose or a time for this option.

Equipment

Equipment is a property of the movement and is authored, never derived from the evidence corpus (docs/research/round2/ROUND2_KNOWN_CORRECTIONS.md §1). This option resolves to no catalogue exercise, so nothing has authored it yet.

Level and prerequisites

R8's level field records who was eligible for the trial, not what a person needs before trying the practice, so it is not carried here.

Progression and regression

No row states how to make this option harder or easier.

Who should not do this

The papers behind this option report nothing on contraindications, which is not the same as saying there are none.

Setting, as the studies used it

No row describes the setting.

What the papers compared it with

A paper measuring one option against another does not make the two interchangeable, and it does not say which to choose. These are listed as what the papers did, and nothing here proposes a substitution.

Pursed-lip breathing