Are you breathing wrong? Osteopath’s simple trick for checking if you are – and how fixing it can ease back pain
- Brandon Talbot shared a video to TikTok showing how to correctly breath
- He demonstrates how to check breathing by lying down and placing one open hand on his stomach and one on his chest and then checking which moves more
- If your ribs are moving more than your stomach, you’re breathing correctly
An osteopath has shared a simple trick for checking if you’re breathing correctly and revealed how fixing it can solve your back pain.
Canadian osteopath Brandon Talbot shared a video to TikTok revealing how to correctly breath and showing that many people are doing it wrong.
In the clip, he demonstrates how to check your breathing by lying down and placing one open hand on his stomach and one on his chest.
An osteopath has shared a simple trick for checking if you’re breathing correctly and revealed how fixing it can solve your back pain. Canadian osteopath Brandon Talbot shared a video to TikTok revealing how to correctly breath and showing that many people are doing it wrong.
Brandon then takes a deep breath and explains that you need to pay attention to which hand moves more.
He then reveals if your ribs are moving more than your stomach, you’re breathing correctly, while if you’re stomach moves more than your ribs – you’re not breathing from your diaphragm.
‘Although there are many benefits from diaphragmic breathing, it should be used as an exercise,’ he said.
‘There are muscles involved in breathing. If your not using them, they will weaken over time making it harder to take a deep breath,’ he added.
Brandon then takes a deep breath and explains that you need to pay attention to which hand moves more
‘Practice breathing into your upper hand,’ he explained.
‘Our lungs are in our chest not our stomach.
‘When they fill with air our ribcage should move.
‘Restriction here can lead to many different symptoms,’ he added.
‘OMG!! My chiro told me 3 weeks ago to breath this way due to T7 [back] pain. Since then, NO MORE PAIN.
‘I’m able to take deep breaths finally! This WORKS,’ wrote one viewer.
‘Everyday I’m more and more amazed at HOW THE HECK AM I STILL ALIVE?! I don’t even know how to breathe properly,’ joked another.
Brendon often shares easy hacks to improve your health.
Last year, he demonstrated an exercise where you interlock your fingers behind your head, tuck in your elbows and slide them up a wall towards the ceiling stretching out your spine to get rid of a hunch back.
He recommends doing the exercise a few times a day to get the desired results and said anyone who struggles to do the exercise against a wall can do it kneeling down over a bench.
Mr Talbot has become hugely popular on TikTok thanks to his informative videos that have racked up a combined 3.5 millions likes.
Earlier this year, he went viral with his video explaining how to relieve back and hip pain in seconds.
The osteopath says you can instantly reduce tightness by sitting on the floor with your legs stretched straight in front of you, then opening and closing them while keeping them raised a few centimetres off the ground.
He also recommends lying on the floor with your legs pressed up against a wall, then bending them in before gently opening them as far as you can.
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