Doctors and Buteyko

With any new treatment, the medical profession makes slow and cautious changes and in general most doctors have taken this approach to Buteyko. However, the Brisbane trial results and the recovery of their own patients are encouraging more doctors to recommend Buteyko courses. We have special information packs for health professionals and your doctor is welcome to attend any Buteyko class.

In November 1994 a medical trial sponsored by the Australian Association of Asthma Foundations was started at the Mater Hospital, Brisbane. The results of the trial were published in the December 1998 issue of the Medical journal of Australia (MJA). They showed that three months after following the Buteyko program, the asthmatic participants were experiencing 81% less symptoms. As a result, they had reduced their reliever medication by an average of 96% and their steroid preventers by an average of 49%.

Buteyko is not a cure for asthma, but it does address the cause. At the beginning of the Brisbane trial it was shown that those breathing the most air per minute, were also using the most medication. At the end, the people who had reduced their breathing the most, were the same people who had reduced their medication.

The control group who were practising Physiotherapy breathing exercises did not reduce their breathing volume, and saw virtually no change in their medication usage. However, they were subsequently taught the Buteyko technique and showed the same amazing results as the original Buteyko group.

"Over the last two years I have examined many patients before and after the course and found the improvement to be repeatable to the degree that patients in over 90% of cases can stop medical treatment, or reduce it to less than half, of that, which was previously required. I attended the tutorials and found the approach, tuition and the method to be responsible and safe. As a medical doctor and Naturopath, I am impressed and surprised at the effectiveness and safety of this natural approach".

Doctor Paul Ameison
M.B.B.S, M.D, D.A.C, N. D.

"Professor Buteyko's principles are entirely consistent with the physiological facts established by medical research 120 years ago. The Buteyko system makes use of the person's own resources and trains them in taking responsibility for their own health. They become less dependant on outside agencies such as hospitals, doctors and physiotherapists, thereby reducing the costs to the health service".

Doctor Godfrey Nelson
M.B.B.A, F.R.A.C, G.P

Anxiety levels greatly reduced - now have no fear of asthma. The benefits have been immediate - and noticeable to those around me. I am noticeably less irritable. I am a nurse and would definitely advocate this for patients.
Judy, Bath

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