BTS/ACPRC 2009 | BTS 2011 | Our search results | |||||
Terminology; intervention (s) | Level of evidence statements | Content and grades of recommendation | Terminology; intervention (s) | Level of evidence statements | Content and grades of recommendation | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (no limits) | RCTs* PubMed (March 2006–Dec 2010) |
Classified as physiotherapy interventions | Classified as complementary and alternative medicines/approaches | ||||||
Breathing exercises in asthma | 1++ |
| Breathing exercises including yoga and the Buteyko breathing technique | n/p |
| 2004 (breathing exercises) | 10 |
Buteyko breathing technique in asthma | 1+ | B (recommendation for) | 2 | ||||
1− | Insufficient evidence to support or refute | Manual therapy including massage and spinal manipulation | n/p | n/p | 2005 | 1 | |
Physical training in asthma | 1+ | B; B; A (depending on the outcome measure; recommendation for) | Physical exercise training | n/p | n/p | 2004 | 19 |
Inspiratory muscle training in asthma | 1− | Insufficient evidence to support or refute |
SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network) key to evidence statements and grades of recommendations.
* Studies indexed as RCTs in PubMed.
↵† Clapping, vibrations, shaking (collectively termed manual therapies) and postural drainage, forced expiratory technique, directed coughing.
↵‡ PEP, oscillating positive expiratory pressure devices.
ACPRC, Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care; BTS, British Thoracic Society; n/p, not provided; RCT, randomised controlled trial.