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<strong>18</strong> Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>18</strong> 20<strong>18</strong><br />

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HEALTH & AWARENESS<br />

SOUTHERN VIEW<br />

Anxiety and breathing<br />

– are they related?<br />

When good breathing goes bad<br />

Have you experienced any of these<br />

breathing difficulty symptoms?<br />

• Disturbed sleep<br />

• Erratic heartbeats*<br />

• Feeling anxious and uptight<br />

• Upset gut/nausea<br />

• Chest pains*<br />

• Shattered confidence<br />

• Tired all the time<br />

• Achy muscles and joints<br />

• Dizzy spells* or feeling spaced out<br />

• Irritability or hypervigilance<br />

• Frequent yawning and sighing<br />

• Breathing discomfort*<br />

• Pins and needles<br />

• Feelings of ‘air hunger’<br />

*Check with your doctor if you experience<br />

these symptoms.<br />

These questions are asked on<br />

the website www.BradCliff.com.<br />

BradCliff was started by North Island<br />

physiotherapists Dinah Bradley and<br />

Tania Cliffton Smith, who specialise in<br />

hyperventilation and anxiety treatment.<br />

Their website notes one in 10 people<br />

experience some form of breathing pattern<br />

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disorder or chronic over breathing at some<br />

time in their lives, resulting in a range<br />

of disturbing or frightening symptoms<br />

puzzling to you and your doctor.<br />

You feel unwell because of overbreathing,<br />

and overbreathing makes you feel unwell.<br />

A vicious cycle is established, which is a<br />

major stress all by itself. This is experienced<br />

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van Stolk of Physical Sense Gym & Physio.<br />

As she explains, it is normal to breathe fast<br />

and in the upper chest when we are in danger<br />

and fight or flight is needed. We know all<br />

about that here, due to the earthquakes.<br />

Normally, once the danger is gone, our<br />

breathing should restore itself within a<br />

couple of days. We would then be using the<br />

diaphragm for our normal nonstressed<br />

breathing. We have been having a hard<br />

time restoring our breathing pattern<br />

here in Canterbury because every time<br />

our body tried to achieve that, the next<br />

aftershock came rolling in. Even though the<br />

aftershocks have significantly diminished,<br />

some people’s fight or flight mode<br />

breathing has become chronic, or habitual,<br />

Ietje says. And, as she points out, using the<br />

wrong muscles for breathing means these<br />

overworked muscles cause headaches, neck<br />

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pain and jaw pain.<br />

With fast upper chest breathing, sighing<br />

and yawning, the resulting disturbance<br />

of our oxygen and carbon dioxide levels<br />

can give us the feeling we are not able to<br />

control our own body. One moment you<br />

are feeling fine, next moment your chest<br />

feels tight, you feel out of breath, your<br />

heart beats erratically and you may even<br />

experience dizziness and/or tingling.<br />

Very scary if you do not understand what<br />

is happening. No wonder this causes<br />

anxiety. Not being the boss over our own<br />

body makes us anxious, anxiety feeds the<br />

faulty breathing pattern, and so it goes on.<br />

The BradCliff physiotherapists have<br />

established a national network of<br />

practitioners that regularly train together<br />

and can help you overcome this problem.<br />

Physical Sense is part of that network.<br />

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