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A chiropractic neurologist revealed a simple exercise that could relieve one of the worst, most common but surprising symptoms of anxiety: “shortness of breath.”
Medically known as dyspnea, shortness of breath is the feeling of shortness of breath that people feel when they have difficulty breathing, have tightness in their chest, and feel as if they cannot get enough air into their lungs.
“Shortness of breath is one of the worst anxiety and POTS [postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome] symptoms,” Dr. Kwan Kin (Tommy) Pang, board-certified chiropractor specializing in functional neurology, said in a viral TikTok video.
TikTok/Dr. TPang
Anxiety can manifest in the body in many different ways and affects a growing number of Americans each year.
POTS is a dysautonomia condition caused by a dysregulated nervous system that causes various symptoms when a person goes from lying down to standing, such as rapid heart rate, dizziness, and shortness of breath.
“You try to breathe, but you feel like your breathing is not enough. You force a yawn but still can’t get air to fill your lungs. It’s like there’s no oxygen in the air or like your lungs are too weak,” said Pang, who goes by Dr. TPang online, explaining the shortness of breath.
The video went viral with 18.2 million views and thousands of people took to the comments, thanking Pang for finally giving the sneaky symptom a name.
TikTok/Dr. TPang
To help his desperate viewers, Pang posted a TikTok follow-up video demonstrating a brain exercise that he says stabilizes the nervous system and quenches shortness of breath to help people “feel more at ease.”
He began by sitting in a chair and focusing on a circle on the wall directly in front of him; she noted that any object at eye level would work as a focal point.
The doctor then began to slowly turn his head from left to right, keeping his attention on the circle at all times.
After a few turns, he slowly stood up from his seat as he continued to turn his head while remaining focused on his focal point.
Pang advised those struggling with shortness of breath to repeat the exercise twice a day, but stop if they feel dizzy.
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