Muscles of Breathing | Inspiration/Inhalation

In this video, Dr Mike explains which muscles are used for quiet inspiration and forced inspiration. He shows where these muscles are located and how they work to help bring air into the lungs.

[suedolma]

god bless your soul. you have a talent for teaching. not many have that skill. and your passion is so clearly evident. THANK you.

[VictoriaGranath]

Wow this is the best educational video I have ever watched 🤯 (much appreciation from a Swedish physical therapy student)

[trevord]

Wow. This video confirms my intuition. I'm 38 and at age 12 I tackled my friend from behind and his head whiplashed back into my nose, shattering it badly. We didnt have money growing up so going to the doctor to get it set wasn't in the cards so I've dealt with a badly deviated septum that led to me mouth breathing my entire teenage and adult life. Recently I've been using a breathe-right strip and taking deep controlled breathes using my nose and ive started to feel my sternocleidomastoid and neck strengthen and have relieved jaw and neck pain as well as lowered blood pressure

[juanb]

My wife says I stop breathing about every 20 seconds. I think I have some form of central sleep apnea, because I don't snore, it just gets weaker until i stop, then I gasp and start breathing again. I believe I can fix it through exercise and weight loss. I have lost about 10 lbs through intermittent fasting and walking every day in about a months time (just a 5 hour eating window and 45 minute walk), and now I'm incorporating exercises to strengthen my diaphragm and accessory breathing muscles. This was an excellent video and has given me an idea on what I can work on 3 or 4 times per day in my breathing exercises!

I hate that all dr's say I can do is get a cpap machine. I'm determined to heal myself through a lifestyle change, and not a cpap. It was a sedentary lifestyle that got me to this miserable point, and its an active lifestyle that I believe will fix it! I'll keep y'all posted haha!

My breathing is a mix of deep breathing, while holding my inhalations with my airway open for 5 seconds (I can feel my diaphram and belly getting sore doing this so I think its helping) and the senobi breathing exercise, that I believe will engage the muscle groups Dr. Mike has introduced me to. Stay healthy folks! 🏋‍♂ and God Bless anyone on their health journey, there is so much you can do, if you are still breathing all is not lost, keep at it, don't give up!

[pwislove]

Love from india🇮🇳 sir
Happy to get teacher like you ❤️

[HappilyAnonymousGirl]

I think a nerve or nerves around my neck were being compromised due to compression from tight muscles.

I have had forward-rounded shoulders among other postural issues for a few years now. Maybe longer. I’ve also been having trouble with insane neck tension and trouble breathing for the same amount of time.

Well, I know being extremely sedentary due to depression is what cause my horrible posture. Lots of muscles got short and tight and that affected a lot of things. I was stuck like that for a long time because I didn’t know how to fix it.

After watching a ton of videos for the past few years I’ve finally figured out how to fix most of my posture, but my breathing was still causing tension and not deep enough.

Last week, I Finally found a video that helped me breathe better. Not only that, but it simultaneously relieved the tension in my neck tremendously.

It was a muscle/fascia release video for forward-rounded shoulders. Releasing the muscles holding my shoulders forward relieved the pressure on my nerves. My nerves were irritated because they were being squeezed by shortened and tight muscles. Idk what muscles or what nerves were responsible for the chaos, but I know this massage technique loosened exactly what was too tight.

To do it, you’d push the tips of yours fingers up under your collar bone and massage side to side. Then, after doing that for a minute you’ll pull them toward your shoulder while still pushing up. Hold for a moment and just breathe.

After that, you’ll massage the edge of your shoulder on the top part that’s between the bones. It’s the soft spot right at the edge where the two bones almost come to a point. Press into the soft spot and massage side to side. You can also place fingers flat over the area and push back and forth, like a regular massage.

Doing this will allow your shoulders to come back on their own without you having to force them back. It worked very fast for me, and I reaped more benefits than I expected. It’s seriously something everyone should do, especially if their shoulders are rounded forward.

[Shivani_]

There’s involvement of trapezius as well to elevate serrated and pec

[ffionsamuel]

The body is INSANE!!!! The analogy of the syringe really helped me to FINALLY understand how it forces air in and out of the lungs!! Very clever!

[petejuilangchu]

Awesome tutorial, and perfect medical model he is!

[ryandigby]

This is one of the most underrated channels.

[ShannonParring]

I could watch you all day. You male it so simple to understand thanks good sir

[valkyrieyou]

I'm writing a case study, this was very informative! Thank you :)

[skykirtibeinghappy]

You made it so simple to understand thankyou so much sir ❤

[hopolo]

there are so many muscles are required for breathing, i had no idea. our bodies really made sure to have redundancy for such a necessary function.

[MQBiola]

Thank you so much you should talk more on starnum in support of deep fast breath

[sunseedllc]

Thank you you explained it a better way

[michaelwade]

Wonderful, was on the cross country team, ran faster downhill, makes sense.

[gilliannorton]

Question regarding "quiet breath" at minute 2:30 - You said "around 500ml", so does it vary based on someone's aerobic capacity, specifically if they do a lot of aerobic exercising? For example, marathon runner vs a "couch potato", given that both weigh the same, does the marathon runner, when they are at rest, still able to breath in more?
Hopefully my question makes sense.
Thank you so much for making amazing videos!
- College kid :)

[kateparkinson]

I appreciate your videos so much. Thank you

[damjanavativec]

Thanks but you didnt focus enough on abdominal muscles that are sometimes the main reason for having pain in the neck