Why Breathing For Stability Matters | Plymouth Chiropractors
Channel: REACH Rehab + Chiropractic Performance Center
Date: 2018-09-01

➡️Why Breathing (For Stability) Matters ⬅️⠀
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🔸WHAT IS THIS?🔸⠀
The first part of a five-part series about the importance of breathing's number two function: postural stability! Stay tuned all week for the complete series.⠀
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🔸WHEN SHOULD I USE IT?🔸⠀
We already use it automatically, but when we bring breathing awareness and understanding breathing mechanics to the forefront, we can maximize our ability to use it to our advantage in the gym and everyday life activities.⠀
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🔸WHY SHOULD I CARE?🔸⠀
Breathing is cool. It's the only function in our body that is automatic, but we also have the conscious power to override and control it.⠀
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Breathing is even cooler because it works to not only keep us alive via respiration but it has a crucial secondary component of postural stability.⠀
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Fun fact: Breathing is the first "functional movement" we perform at birth!⠀
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Breathing creates intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) to stabilize the "links of the spinal chain" via activation of the diaphragm. Like the biceps muscles, the diaphragm contracts like any other muscle. When it contracts the dome-shaped muscle flattens and drops into the abdomen like a piston in a cylinder head (engine) -- this with co-contraction of back, abdominal wall, and pelvic floor muscles working together (in concert) create the abdominal "canister." This is your natural weightlifting belt referenced in the video.⠀
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Ever wonder why a weightlifting belt works (even when often used incorrectly)? It helps you generate IAP by your abdominal wall pushing against its rigid surface. ⠀
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Why not just squeeze your abs? Sure -- this strategy works because it generates IAP; however, it has a capacity ceiling. Breathing with an abdominal brace maximizes your ability to generate IAP, which is what this series is all about! ⠀
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↑ IAP = ↑ stability (ability to control joint positions) = ↑movement/mobility/strength/performance

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