Proper Breathing Technique

Proper Breathing Technique

Being Alive Newsletter, Being Alive/Los Angeles - May 1993
John Lewis

For better results, I suggest the use of the total lung capacity breathing technique (TLCT) which uses the following sequence:

- Three normal breaths,

- At the end of the third breath, the patient starts a rapid, deep inhalation and exhalation,

- At the end of exhalation, the patient starts a slow and deep inhalation,

- The patient then holds his/her breath for at least seven to ten seconds.

The cycle gets repeated throughout the normal twenty minute treatment period.

Since starting the TLCT two years ago involving 400 patients who were either negative or positive for PCP not one had PCP in the upper lobes.
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