Breathe to Win: Scientists show it’s important to screen breathing patterns in athletic populations

  Breathing patterns are an important indicator of an individual’s health. A healthy individual breathes naturally using primary respiratory muscles (e.g., the diaphragm muscle) that produce a rhythmic observable movement of the upper rib cage, lower rib cage, and abdomen. This is known as the diaphragmatic breathing pattern, which is associated with improvements in posture,…