Heart Rate and Breathing Are Not Always in Phase During Resonance Frequency Breathing

• Published in: Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 145 - 152
• Main Authors: Lehrer, Paul M., Vaschillo, Evgeny G., Vidali, Vinay
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.09.2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Asthma; Baroreceptors; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Biofeedback; Biofeedback training; Blood pressure; Feedback; Gender; Health Psychology; Heart beat; Heart rate; Older people; Oscillations; Physiological aspects; Psychology; Psychotherapy and Counseling; Public Health; Reflexes; Respiration; Resonance; Transfer function; Protocol; Psychophysiology; Age; Heart rate variability biofeedback

For many years it has been an axiom among practitioners of heart rate variability biofeedback that heart rate and breathing vary in phase with each other when people do resonance frequency breathing. When people breathe at the frequency of the baroreflex system, about 0.1 Hz, heart rate and blood pr...