Department of Health Science, Gachon University Graduate School, Incheon 21936, Korea.
Department of Physical Therapy, College of Health Science, Gachon University, Incheon 21936, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 21;19(3):1205. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031205.
Recent studies have suggested that breathing type may affect balance ability. However, most of these studies were conducted on the elderly and patients with musculoskeletal or neurological disorders. Therefore, the effect of voluntary breathing, such as thoracic and abdominal breathing, on the balance ability of people in various age groups is not clearly understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in balance ability according to the type of breathing in healthy young adults. This study included 78 healthy, young adults. All subjects were assessed for balance ability in neutral breathing, thoracic breathing, and abdominal breathing through a crossover design. Balance ability was assessed during static standing using a force plate. Participants were trained in voluntary breathing, evaluated using electromyography. During voluntary breathing, sway velocity, anterior-posterior difference, and anterior-posterior standard deviation increased while anterior-posterior sample entropy decreased compared to neutral breathing ( < 0.05). Compared with thoracic breathing, abdominal breathing increased sway velocity and variability, and reduced complexity ( < 0.05). These findings show that balance ability is affected by breathing, even in healthy young adults.
最近的研究表明，呼吸方式可能会影响平衡能力。然而，这些研究大多是针对老年人和患有肌肉骨骼或神经系统疾病的患者进行的。因此，对于不同年龄组人群中，自愿呼吸（如胸式呼吸和腹式呼吸）对平衡能力的影响尚不清楚。本研究旨在探讨健康年轻成年人呼吸方式对平衡能力的影响。本研究纳入了 78 名健康的年轻成年人。所有受试者均通过交叉设计在中立呼吸、胸式呼吸和腹式呼吸下进行平衡能力评估。平衡能力在静态站立时使用测力板进行评估。参与者接受自愿呼吸训练，并使用肌电图进行评估。与中立呼吸相比，在自愿呼吸时，摆动速度、前后差异和前后标准差增加，而前后样本熵降低（<0.05）。与胸式呼吸相比，腹式呼吸增加了摆动速度和变异性，并降低了复杂性（<0.05）。这些发现表明，即使在健康的年轻成年人中，呼吸也会影响平衡能力。
