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Speech Guided Breathing: a Modality to Influence Cardiovascular Regulation and Health Perception in Hypertensive Patients?
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Anthroposophic speech therapy for Hypertension. Completed, enrolled 31 participants.
Detailed Summary
Anthroposophic speech therapy (ATS) has been shown to positively influence heart rate variability (HRV) and heart rate - respiration coordination in healthy volunteers. This study was performed to learn more about such improvements and possible alteration in baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) in hypertensive patients, which characteristically differ in those regulatory parameters from normotensive patients
Study Details
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Interventions
Anthroposophic speech therapy uses sound-combinations like "KLSFM" or "OM" and hexameter verse in German, spoken by the therapist and imitated by the patients, to expand and decelerate respiration. The intervention is conducted by the same qualified therapist for one patient in different days but during the same daytime for 30 minutes in upright position and walking.