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Do you have chronic pain in your back or your knees? Maybe you suffer from chronic arthritic pain? Or generalized pain from an autoimmune condition, such as fibromyalgia? If you’re taking ibuprofen or even prescription painkillers daily, and you’re trying to figure out how to manage your pain in a more natural way, this video is for you.
In this video we’ll share some of the key scientific findings around breathing exercises and pain management, followed by a very simple breathing practice that you can try at home to see if it might offer you some pain relief.
VIDEO CONTENTS
00:00 Breathing Exercises for Pain Relief
00:55 Adaptive vs. Maladaptive Pain
02:26 Medical Research to Support Breathing Exercises
05:17 Contraindications
05:33 Ocean Breath
06:21 4x8 I Feel Great Breathing
DISCLAIMER - This video is for educational purposes only. Please do not discontinue any kind of medication without checking with your doctor first. In all cases, you should check with a trusted healthcare provider before starting any self-care routine.
WHAT IS CHRONIC PAIN?
It's helpful to separate pain into two different buckets. Most pain is adaptive pain. It doesn't feel good, but it's there to keep us safe. This is called nociception - the ability for us to sense and react to negative stimuli in our environment. For example, burning your hand on a hot pan.
If that pain were to linger for months after that initial minor burn, however, it would become what’s called maladaptive pain. This rarely happens with something like an epidermal burn, but it happens very often with joint pain and autoimmune conditions. It’s almost as though a fire alarm is going off in your body, but there’s no longer a fire. This is the type of pain we might categorize as chronic and breathing exercises have shown to be very effective in helping to ease this type of pain.
STUDIES THAT SUPPORT BREATHING FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT
* Slow deep breathing: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
* Lower back pain: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
* Fibromyalgia symptoms: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
EXERCISE WE’LL LEARN
* 4X8 'I Feel Great' Breathing
BEST PRACTICES
The only contraindication for this style of breathing is that it can make you sleepy. So, you shouldn't do this while you're driving or while operating machinery. And you should always make sure that you’re sitting down and in a safe environment.
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