Asthma in Social Media: The Collection February 14, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.trackback
It takes plenty of time and effort to find quality content in social media regarding medical conditions or specialties. Outstanding asthma-related web 2.0 tools and applications are collected in Webicina’s Asthma and Web 2.0 guide. Let’s see a few examples that have been included:
AsthmaMom, a fantastic blog about raising a young kid with persistent asthma. Here are other selected asthma blogs.
Asthma UK provides patients with useful information through a Youtube channel. Other channels were also included.
Asthma, MD is a free application that allows users to easily and quickly log their asthma activity, their medications, causes of their asthma in the form of a diary. More asthma mobile apps.
You can find hundreds of examples on Asthma and Web 2.0. We also help you follow the best asthma blogs, journals, news sites and Twitter users on PeRSSonalized Asthma:
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Thanks very much–I appreciate your kind words!
My pleasure. Your blog is great.
A relevant but strangely ignored or not generally known fact about asthma and breathing troubles is that the change between weak (asthmatic) and strong (healthy) breathing is dependent on abdominal muscle tension. Slackening the muscles here causes abysmally weak and asthmatic breathing. Training the muscles, for example by “abdominal hollowing” (see Web articles) produces an antiasthmatic effect. Abdominal muscle tension plays a prominent part in Asian martial arts.
I tend to breathe asthmatically after an evening meal or in pollen-laden air.
So it is fair to assume that there is a natural breathing spectrum with an asthmatic tendency at one end and Ku Fu or Karate breathing at the other end. For a few words on the Japanese version of Asian breathing see http://www.lrz.de/~s3e0101/webserver/webdata/OBT.pdf
Breathing powerfully into my lower abdomen with tensed muscles provides an effective cure for me. But then I’ve always been sceptical about medical wisdom on asthma: such a paradoxical and doctor-baffling increase in the last 40 years with modern, merely symptomatic inhalers. Respectfully, Richard Friedel