Constructive Breathing

CONSTRUCTIVE BREATHING
Note: The following resources will assist the researcher in the exploration of aspects of breathing techniques and their connection to health, wellness, or fitness. The resources will direct the user to web sources and articles that investigate breathing methods, case studies, health improvement and pain management and stress reduction, breath therapies, and the benefits of activities such as swimming or singing. It is believed that the deep breathing needed for these activities attribute to better health.

SOURCES
General
Ramsey Library Research Guides - Health
WorldCat. Index to over 41 million book and audiovisual catalog records in 17,000 libraries. WorldCat is not a periodical index. FirstSearch
Google Scholar A search engine for searching scholarly articles.
Google Image Search Visual resources may be searched by using Google Images.
Healthfinder.gov Lots of Health research connections here as well as helping people understand reputable sources for health information Also search under respiratory diseases for more breathing studies. http://beta.healthfinder.gov/scripts/SearchContext.asp?topic=744
Health Sciences Sites that are accessible from the Ramsey Library Electronic Resources page.
MedlinePlus National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health recommended sites.
FamilyDoctor.org Health information for the whole family from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
MayoClinic.com Useful and up-to-date information and tools from the Mayo Clinic.
Merck Manuals Merck Manuals available online, including those on health and aging, diagnosis and therapy, and geriatrics.
NC Health Info - Offers access to web sites of local health services, providers, and programs serving residents of North Carolina. Joint project of the UNC-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library and the National Library of Medicine.

Related web sites - specific to breathing/respiration.
	http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html A particularly good site for general searching on medical and health-related topics.
	http://www.ncfh.org/pateduc/en-stress.htm Illustrated guide to stress reduction
	http://www.nationaljewish.org/disease-info/wellness/breathing.aspx
	http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/yoga/CM00004/METHOD=print Mayo Clinic yoga exercises
	http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/breathingproblems.html Comprehensive medical resources related to breathing problems.
	http://www.painfoundation.org/Publications/TreatmentOptions2006.pdf American Pain Foundation. Includes treatment plans for pain reduction.
	http://kidshealth.org/teen/school_jobs/school/test_anxiety.html
	http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/work-life-balance/WL00056/METHOD=print
	http://www.nationalpainfoundation.org/MyTreatment/articles/Back_TO_Psychology.asp Pain specific, but contains useful tips on pain control, including breathing techniques.
	http://www.medem.com/MedLB/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZ8PPLCGJC&sub_cat=285 Atlas of the Body -- The Respiratory System
	http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/open/condition=%22Dyspnea%22 (National Institutes of Health) Clinical Trials
	http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v:project=medlineplus&binning-state=group%3d%3dMedical%20Encyclopedia&query=breathing Breathing. Search results from the National Library of Medicine, NIH.
	http://msjamie.blogspot.com/2008/03/five-tibetan-exercises-for-rejuvenation.html Five Tibetan Exercises posted on a personal blog site.
	The Transformational Breath Foundation

Databases
	Academic Search Premier. Multi-disciplinary database with indexing for more than 8,000 publications and full text for 4,500+ of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further. EBSCOhost
	Infotrac Academic OneFile. 11,000+ mostly peer-reviewed, full-text journals with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature. Includes Impact Factor analysis, Journal Citation Reports, links to JSTOR & ISI Web of Knowledge content. 1980+ Gale
	JSTOR. The scholarly journal archive; provides full text of over 450 journals covering a broad array of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. UNCA collections include Arts and Sciences I, II, III, and IV. See detailed lists.
	LexisNexis Academic. Full-text news and wire services, including medical news.
	Cambridge University Press. Over 220 peer-reviewed academic journals. Interdisciplinary in approach and covering a wide range of topics, including Neuroscience, Medicine, Medical Policy, Nutrition, etc.
	PubMed (MEDLINE). Index to the scholarly literature of medicine. (National Library of Medicine)
	CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health). Indexing for over 1,200 nursing and health sciences journals. (NC LIVE)
	Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition. Provides full text access to over 450 journals covering many medical disciplines. (NC LIVE)
	ScienceDirect. Over 800 full-text journals in 16 fields of the sciences and social sciences with more than 200 journals from various medical disciplines. (Elsevier)
	Biological Abstracts (via Web of Knowledge). Index to about 6,000 journals in the life sciences, including agriculture, biology, ecology, immunology, neuroscience, biomedicine, and veterinary science.
	Cambridge University Press.
	National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC). U.S. Public Health Service
	Wiley Interscience. Journals cover life sciences, medicine, and other relevant topics.
	Oxford University Press. Over 180 scholarly titles in the fields of: Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law
	PsycINFO (1887+). More info. Index to the scholarly literature of psychology. SilverPlatter