Can Pelvic Floor Pain Cause Shortness of Breath? - Get Rid of Pelvic Pain By Fixing Your Breathing

Can Pelvic Floor Pain Cause Shortness of Breath? - Get Rid of Pelvic Pain By Fixing Your Breathing

One common thing I hear from patients and clients that suffer from pelvic pain is that they often have difficulty breathing and feel short of breath.

While shortness of breath and pelvic floor pain are related, it is not quite accurate to say that it is the pelvic pain that is causing the shortness of breath.

In fact, both are likely related to the function of the abdominals, pelvic floor, and diaphragm and how they work together (or fail to work together) to manage the internal pressures inside of the body.

During normal breathing, the diaphragm pulls downward on inhalation as the rib cage expands, which pushes the abdominal contents (guts) in a downward direction.

These guts are mostly fluid and thus basically incompressible.

Needing somewhere to go, the pelvic floor moves into a descended (lengthened/eccentric) position in order to accommodate the downward movement of the guts.

On exhalation, the diaphragm relaxes into a domed position and the ribs come back together as the guts move back up and the pelvic floor moves into an ascended (shortened/concentric) position.

However, in pelvic pain, these mechanics are often disrupted.

In pelvic pain, the diaphragm is stuck in a descended (inhaled) state, which continually pushes the guts down onto the pelvic floor.

On exhalation, instead of the ribs coming together and the diaphragm returning to its relaxed, domed position, the diaphragm stays down and creates a downward force on an already overworked pelvic floor.

One of the main reasons this happens is due to relative overuse of the superficial abdominals, especially the rectus abdominus, which compresses the front of the rib cage and the sternum and prevents the rib cage from changing shape to allow the diaphragm to dome appropriately.

This in combination with a pelvis that is pushed forward in space creates a situation where the back of the pelvis tends to be restricted, thus further lengthening and putting pressure onto an already over-used anterior pelvic floor.

In order to restore proper pressures and dynamic function of the pelvic floor we must decrease the compensatory exhalation strategy and improve control of the center of mass to open the back of the pelvis relative to the front.

If we can achieve these goals, we will tend to see a reduction in the pelvic floor pain and shortness of breath that we often see.

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00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Can Pelvic Floor Pain Cause Shortness of Breath?
01:20 - How is Pelvic Floor Pain Related to Breathing?
02:40 - Movement of Internal Fluid Elements with Normal Breathing
03:28 - Breathing Mechanics and Internal Pressures in Pelvic Floor Pain
04:22 - Breathing Mechanics and Positional Goals to Improve Pelvic Pain
05:22 - Breathing Dysfunction: Compensatory Exhalation Strategy
06:48 - Muscle Imbalance within the Pelvis and Forward Pelvic Positioning
07:52 - Why Does This Pelvic Muscle Imbalance Occur?
09:03 - Pelvic Pain Solution: Restore Breathing Mechanics and Pelvic Position
10:26 - Recap

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