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Case report: Open water swimming as a possible treatment for asthma
Asthma is a complex medical problem for which currently available treatment can be incompletely effective. This case report describes a 49 year old woman who had suffered from asthma since her teenage years that resolved after she took up regular open water swimming. After sharing this case report w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10198464/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37215731 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1169639 |
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author | Greenfield, Kirsty Verling, William Larcombe, Thomas Connett, Gary James |
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description | Asthma is a complex medical problem for which currently available treatment can be incompletely effective. This case report describes a 49 year old woman who had suffered from asthma since her teenage years that resolved after she took up regular open water swimming. After sharing this case report with an international open water swimming community on social media, over one hundred people with asthma commented that their symptoms had also improved after taking up this activity. The mechanism whereby open water swimming might alleviate asthma has not been established. Possibilities include benefits to mental health, anti-inflammatory effects, being more fit, improved immune function and suppression of the bronchoconstrictive component of the diving reflex. Further research might usefully confirm or refute these clinical observations. |
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spelling | pubmed-101984642023-05-20 Case report: Open water swimming as a possible treatment for asthma Greenfield, Kirsty Verling, William Larcombe, Thomas Connett, Gary James Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine Asthma is a complex medical problem for which currently available treatment can be incompletely effective. This case report describes a 49 year old woman who had suffered from asthma since her teenage years that resolved after she took up regular open water swimming. After sharing this case report with an international open water swimming community on social media, over one hundred people with asthma commented that their symptoms had also improved after taking up this activity. The mechanism whereby open water swimming might alleviate asthma has not been established. Possibilities include benefits to mental health, anti-inflammatory effects, being more fit, improved immune function and suppression of the bronchoconstrictive component of the diving reflex. Further research might usefully confirm or refute these clinical observations. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10198464/ /pubmed/37215731 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1169639 Text en Copyright © 2023 Greenfield, Verling, Larcombe and Connett. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Medicine Greenfield, Kirsty Verling, William Larcombe, Thomas Connett, Gary James Case report: Open water swimming as a possible treatment for asthma |
title | Case report: Open water swimming as a possible treatment for asthma |
title_full | Case report: Open water swimming as a possible treatment for asthma |
title_fullStr | Case report: Open water swimming as a possible treatment for asthma |
title_full_unstemmed | Case report: Open water swimming as a possible treatment for asthma |
title_short | Case report: Open water swimming as a possible treatment for asthma |
title_sort | case report: open water swimming as a possible treatment for asthma |
topic | Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10198464/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37215731 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1169639 |
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