This post was written with contributions from Margaret Heaton-Ashby, LMFT, and Kelsey Tunney, DPT. When you think about your health and specifically any dysfunction in your body, you probably don’t ...

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lungThe respiratory system represents one of the body’s most remarkable yet often overlooked systems, automatically adjusting to our needs whether we’re sleeping, walking, or exercising intensely.

The phrenic nerve controls the diaphragm, the dome-shaped muscle that is primarily responsible for breathing. Contraction of the diaphragm expands the lungs and draws air into them. The phrenic nerve ...

I asked the experts all about diaphragm breathing, which has de-stressing benefits—especially compared to breathing that's done out of your chest and neck. I was in a Pilates class the other day when ...

If you’re reading this you’re obviously breathing, but are you doing it right? From the moment we’re born we just do it, we take breathing for granted until someone or something takes our breath away.

You do it all the time without even thinking about it. In fact, you’re doing it right now. Breathing. It’s such a simple and automatic behavior, but did you know it’s possible to breathe wrong? In ...