[husky601]

I am a french Canadian and i just did the translation by Google Translate because i am to lazy!!! No it's just because computer is really bad for my TOS. I belive you gonna have to figure a few sentence but it's really interesting. If you want to translate evething which i think it can be a really good idea you can use- http://translate.google.com/ -, it works pretty good. http://www.volodalen.com/25etirements/etirements4.htm



Breathing

The muscles involved in breathing seem to form a space wherein the other converging muscle structures of the organism . Thus, the front and rear muscle chains are closely related to the level of this " breathing zone ."
Like a nervous and muscular junction respiratory center receives and transmits tension from the body. This centrality told artisans method global postural reeducation (GPR ) as muscle chains " born at this point to irradiate the 5 ends of the body " ( head and four limbs).

However, the contraction of the respiratory muscles ( diaphragm, intercostal ... ) causes the lifting of the ribcage. Therefore the retraction of the muscles and channels that connect them results in a " lifting projection and a " forward of the thorax .
Accordingly, during the stretching of the muscle chains, the objective is to seek to achieve the opposite movement caused by the contraction of the muscles, in other words to lower the thorax. We return to this point in the page dedicated to the technical global stretching (next page).

We have seen that :
1the muscles are organized in chains
2These muscular structures interact with each other especially in the respiratory center
3Leur retraction causes deformations whose primary purpose is the avoidance of pain

These findings relate to cases or retractions appear. However, if all the muscles do not have significant retraction , they are balanced in what is principle 2 .

[cyclist]

On the topic of Breathing -- has anyone experienced shortness of breath due to TOS?

[SwissMiss]

Originally Posted by cyclist

On the topic of Breathing -- has anyone experienced shortness of breath due to TOS?

I sometimes woke up at night with big difficulties in breathing and panicking about it with heart racing and pain in my chest - just like a heart attack I think. It was TOS related (vascular TOS, bilateral). I think it is related to the intercostobrachial nerve which can be affected by TOS. Check this out:

"Spreading or radiation of pain is also important in evaluation of neuropathic pain. If retrosternal pain (radiation from intercostobrachial nerve, a branch of T2 intercostal nerve) is noticed on the left side, it can be confused with pain of cardiac or pulmonary origin" http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1143532-clinical

[husky601]

The major reason to do breathing exercises is lowered ribs.

Alexis

[brisco71]

Originally Posted by SwissMiss

I sometimes woke up at night with big difficulties in breathing and panicking about it with heart racing and pain in my chest - just like a heart attack I think. It was TOS related (vascular TOS, bilateral). I think it is related to the intercostobrachial nerve which can be affected by TOS. Check this out:

"Spreading or radiation of pain is also important in evaluation of neuropathic pain. If retrosternal pain (radiation from intercostobrachial nerve, a branch of T2 intercostal nerve) is noticed on the left side, it can be confused with pain of cardiac or pulmonary origin" http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1143532-clinical

Thank you so much for this. I have the "heart attacks" in the middle of the night just like you described. That's why I love this site and all ya'll, it's so nice to hear from people who can understand all these crazy symptoms!