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Techniques That Can Help Alleviate Adverse Factors

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Introduction:
Across time and history, people looked for alternatives and other behavioral techniques that can help alleviate adverse factors in everyday life such as panic attacks, stress, and more importantly regulating heart rate (Diest, 2014). Our heart rates are influenced by various types of stimuli such as caffeine in our coffee or some kind of physical demand required, like exercise (The Science of Stress, 2013). Heart rate and heart rate variability has recently become an important indicator of healthy cardiac muscles as it is less invasive causing it to be more convenient on the patient and researcher overall (Chattipakorn, 2007). Regularity in heart rates, according to studies within the past two decades, can be a predictor of …show more content…

Additionally, breathing at a slower pace or increased ventilation resulted in inconclusive data or lack of statistical significance that other studies have also come to.
Methods:
In order to record breathing rate and its effects on heart rate, we had to use two different devices. We used a spirometer to collect data on each of our breathing patterns; the resulting data collected was breaths per minute and its corresponding heart rate. The heart rate was recorded using an electrocardiogram, ECG for short.
Upon connecting everything into LabTutor, we allowed our test subjects to breath into the spirometer at different ‘rates’ slow, base, and fast. The subject was then connected to the ECG, prepped with gel, and was then instructed to breath at what they considered to be a slow, regular, and fast rate of breathing. This procedure was repeated twice and we were unable to replicate the procedure multiple times due to time constraints. In this first trial, our rates were not regulated well enough and ended up with both too similar and irregular breathing rates causing the data to not be unique enough for any data analysis.
In order to make the breathing rates more regular, we introduced a metronome and set it to 10, 25, and 45 beats per minute. After preparing the spirometer and
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prepping the subjects with the ECG and spirometer, the subjects were then instructed to breath in on the first tick and out on the second tick. This procedure was done for each
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