Osteopath Shares How Wrong Breathing Can Cause Your Back Pain

Osteopath Shares How Wrong Breathing Can Cause Your Back Pain

Are you breathing wrong? The Osteopath’s Simple Trick To Check If You Are — And How To Fix It Can Ease Back Pain

  • Brendon Talbot shared a video on TikTok showing how to breathe correctly
  • He shows how to check breathing by lying down and placing one open hand on his stomach and one on his chest and then see which one moves more
  • If your ribs move more than your stomach, you’re breathing correctly

Through Bridie Pearson-jones for Daily Mail Australia

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An osteopath shared a simple trick to make sure you’re breathing correctly and revealed how to fix your back pain.

Canadian osteopath Brendon Talbot shared a video to TikTok reveal how to breathe correctly and show that many people do it wrong.

In the clip, he shows you how to control your breathing by lying down and placing one open hand on his stomach and one on his chest.

An osteopath shared a simple trick to check if you're breathing properly and revealed how to get rid of back pain by fixing it

Canadian osteopath Brendon Talbot shared a video with TikTok showing how to breathe correctly and that many people do it wrong.

An osteopath shared a simple trick to make sure you’re breathing correctly and revealed how to fix your back pain. Canadian osteopath Brendon Talbot shared a video with TikTok showing how to breathe correctly and that many people do it wrong.

Brendon then takes a deep breath and explains that you must notice which hand moves more.

He then reveals that if your ribs move more than your stomach, you’re breathing well, while if your stomach moves more than your ribs – you’re not breathing from your diaphragm.

“While there are many benefits to diaphragmatic breathing, it should be used as an exercise,” he said.

Muscles are involved in breathing. If you don’t use them, they will weaken over time, making it more difficult to take deep breaths,” he added.

Brendon then takes a deep breath and explains that you should pay attention to which hand moves more

Brendon then takes a deep breath and explains that you should pay attention to which hand moves more

How to breathe correctly to get rid of back pain

Your diaphragm, a muscle at the base of your lungs, contracts when you inhale and moves downward. This creates more space in your chest and allows your lungs to expand.

Learning to breathe from the diaphragm is important to help manage back pain.

  1. Lie on your back or sit comfortably.
  2. Place one hand on your upper chest and the other hand just below your rib cage.
  3. Breathe in slowly through your nose and feel your belly move out against your hand. Keep the hand on your chest as still as possible.
  4. Exhale through pursed lips and pull your abs toward your rib cage. Again, make sure to keep the hand on your chest still.

Source: Brisbane Spine Clinic

“Practice breathing into your upper hand,” he explained.

“Our lungs are in our chest, not in our stomach.

“When they fill with air, our rib cage should move.

“Restriction here can lead to many different symptoms,” he added.

‘OMG!! My chiro told me 3 weeks ago to breathe this way because of T7 [back] pain. Since then NO MORE PAIN.

‘I can finally take a deep breath! This WORKS,” one viewer wrote.

‘Every day I am more and more amazed HOW THE HECK AM I STILL?! I don’t even know how to breathe properly,” another joked.

Brendon often shares simple hacks to improve your health.

Last year, he demonstrated an exercise where you intertwine your fingers behind your head, tuck your elbows and slide them up a wall toward the ceiling, stretching your spine to get rid of a hunch.

He recommends doing the exercise a few times a day to get the results you want and said anyone who has trouble doing the exercise against a wall can do it kneeling over a couch.

Mr Talbot has become extremely popular on TikTok thanks to his informative videos which have racked up a total of 3.5 million 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 immediately relieve the tightness by sitting on the floor with your legs stretched out in front of you, then opening and closing them while holding them a few inches off the floor.

He also recommends lying on the floor with your legs pressed against a wall, then bending them inward before gently opening them as far as possible.