Studies On The Effects Of Respiration & Breathing
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Loading ...Thanks to Wholeness Forums member tscherz’s contribution found here I now have found 13 additional studies, in addition to the three studies I blogged about earlier, on the effects of breathing. Here they are:
1. Duranti, R., Sanna, I. Romagnoli, M. Nerini, F. Gigliotti, N. Ambrosino, G. Scano. “Walking modality affects respiratory muscle action and contribution to respiratory effort.” Pflugers Arch. 2004 May; 448 (2): 222-30.
2. Grimstone, S.K., P.W. Hodges, “Impaired postural compensation for respiration in people with recurrent low back pain.” Exp Brain Res. 2003 Jul; 151 (2): 218-24. Epub 2003 May 21.
3. Hamaoui, A., M. Do, L. Poupard, S. Bouisset. “Does respiration perturb body balance more in chronic low back pain subjects than in healthy subjects?” Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon). 2002 Aug; 17 (7): 548-50.
4. Kondo, T., I. Kobayashi, Y. Taguchi, Y. Ohta, N. Yanagimachi, “A dynamic analysis of chest wall motions with MRI in healthy young subjects.” Respirology. 2000 Mar; 5 (1): 19-25.
5. Kondo, T., I. Kobayashi, Y. Taguchi, N. Hayama, S. Tajiri, N. Yanagimachi, “An analysis of the chest wall motions usinsg the dynamic MRI in healthy elder subjects.” Tokai J Exp Clin Med. 2005 Apr; 30 (1): 15-20.
Learn Full Yogic Breathing
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...This article shows you in simple words how to practice yogic breathing (or yoga breathing).
Full yoga breathing combines both yoga chest (thoracic) breathing and yoga abdominal breathing.
Get Ready
- Wear something comfortable, nothing tight or restrictive. Take off your shows and socks
- Lay down on your back, sit in a meditative posture, or a relaxed posture
- Be relaxed
- Hands and legs outstretched (alternatively with both hands on your abdomen)
- First start with your eyes looking up at the ceiling
- Gently close your eyes and relax more
Start:
Thoracic (Chest) Breathing
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...This article shows you in simple words how to practice thoracic or chest breathing.
Get Ready
- Wear something comfortable, nothing tight or restrictive. Take off your shows and socks
- Lay down on your back, sit in a meditative posture, or a relaxed posture
- Be relaxed
- Hands and legs outstretched (alternatively with both hands on your abdomen)
- First start with your eyes looking up at the ceiling
- Gently close your eyes and relax more
Start:
Abdominal Breathing
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...This article shows you in simple words how to practice abdominal breathing.
Get Ready
- Wear something comfortable, nothing tight or restrictive. Take off your shows and socks
- Lay down on your back, sit in a meditative posture, or a relaxed posture
- Be relaxed
- Hands and legs outstretched (alternatively with both hands on your abdomen)
- First start with your eyes looking up at the ceiling
- Gently close your eyes and relax more
Start:
Forced Unilateral Nostril Breathing - Affects Both Brain Hemisphericity and Autonomic Activity
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...This study concerns the effects of forced unilateral nostril breathing on brain hemisphere stimulation and autonomic activity
TITLE:
Changes in intraocular pressure induced by differential forced unilateral nostril breathing, a technique that affects both brain hemisphericity and autonomic activity
Joshua Backon, Nelson Matamoros and Uriel Ticho
Journal Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Selective Hemispheric Stimulation by Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...This study concerns the effects of forced nostril breathing on selective hemispheric stimulation.
TITLE:
Selective Hemispheric Stimulation by Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing
By Werntz DA, Bickford RG, Shannahoff-Khalsa D.
Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla 92093.
Published in Human Neurobiology (1987) 6(3):165-171
INTRO:
This paper shows that forced nostril breathing in one nostril produces a relative increase in the EEG amplitude in the contralateral hemisphere. This phenomena was demonstrated in 5 out of 5 untrained subjects. These results suggest the possibility of a non-invasive approach in the treatment of states of psychopathology where lateralized cerebral dysfunction have been shown to occur.
Effect of Short-Term Practice of Breathing Exercises on Autonomic Functions in Normal Human Volunteers
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...This research concerns slow breathing exercises and their effects on the autonomic function and the sympathetic or parasympathetic activity.
TITLE:
Effect of Short-Term Practice of Breathing Exercises on Autonomic Functions in Normal Human Volunteers
By Pal G.K, Velkumary S, Madanmohan - Published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, Aug 2004
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES:
Practice of breathing exercises like pranayama is known to improve autonomic function by changing sympathetic or parasympathetic activity. Therefore, in the present study the effect of breathing exercises on autonomic functions was performed in young volunteers in the age group of 17-19 yr.