Robert Fasman

The effects of slow breathing on affective responses to pain stimuli: an experimental study.

Pain January 15, 2010 Alex J Zautra, Robert Fasman, Mary C Davis et al.

This study examined whether breathing rate affected self-reported pain and emotion following thermal pain stimuli in women with fibromyalgia syndrome (FM: n=27) or age-matched healthy control women (HC: n=25). FM and HC were exposed to low and moderate thermal pain pulses during paced breathing at their normal rate and one-half their normal rate. Thermal pain pulses were presented in four...