Breathing Patterns from Post Rehab Essentials

This past weekend I lead a workshop for a newly updated Post Rehab Essentials curriculum to a group of trainers in Edmonton, and was able to video record the entire thing in HD, and will hopefully have a new product professionally edited and available for purchase later this Summer or possibly Fall.

In all honesty, I rarely get excited about the content in a course that I’ve put together, as a lot of the information speaks for itself, but I managed to put a lot of rich content into this one, with way more hands-on work to help trainers get more of a tactile education than simply sitting in class and looking at slides all day long. The feedback was awesome!!

One of the biggest questions I get from people who read my blog regularly is about proper breathing mechanics, like breathing through the entire lung versus limiting one area or another, and how to tell if someone isn’t breathing properly through their entire lung. I wrote about it in my Thoracic spine series HERE, but it’s one of those things I think a video would shed more light on that writing ever could, so I wanted to include a brief snippet of the breathing section from Post Rehab Essentials to hopefully expand on the thoughts I’ve put together previously.

Before we get to the video though, it’s important to understand how important breathing mechanics are to everything.

If you’re locked into thoracic flexion, the odds of your breathing being affected is pretty high

If you don’t open your lungs adequately, your ability to extend your thoracic spine will be inhibited, which will affect scapular mechanics, shoulder mechanics, neck mechanics, and probably lead to some form of an upper body injury or another.

If your diaphragm isn’t working properly it can affect your entire core stability, which could predispose low back injuries.

If your core doesn’t work, your hips may not fire properly and so on and so on.

This becomes really important considering most people spend their lives riding a desk for 40-60 hours a week in essentially a posture that would more closely resemble a question mark than an exclamation mark.

This video shows how I break down how a breathing pattern can be affected, and also shows some corrective strategies that are easy to employ for anyone. The big key to consider are simply making sure the person can breathe as deep as possible.

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Let me know what you think in the comments section below. Am I completely out to lunch, or did this open some eyes? Let me know below.