Sentences with phrase «breathing muscle activity»

Sleep studies of patients with obstructive sleep apnea often show an increase in breathing muscle activity when muscles try to open an obstructed upper airway.

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Be active for at least two - and - a-half hours per week, engaging in activities that raise your breathing and heart rates, and strengthen your muscles.

This score — developed in 1952 by anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar and now used in modern hospitals worldwide — rates a baby's appearance, pulse, responsiveness, muscle activity, and breathing with a number from 0 to 2 (2 being the strongest rating).

The doctor will determine the baby's Apgar score, which is based on heart rate, color, reflex response, activity and muscle tone, and breathing.

Perchance to Dream In 1953 Nathaniel Kleitman of the University of Chicago and his graduate student Eugene Aserinsky discovered that slumber, which had been considered a single continuous period of downtime, contains recurring periods in which the sleeper's eyes move about, heartbeat and breathing become irregular, most voluntary muscles are paralyzed and brain activity (as measured by electroencephalography) is heightened.

In a study of 92 primary / elementary school aged children, Mr Coussens measured more than 30 different sleep parameters, such as muscle movements, breathing, eye activity and changes in the brain's processing.

More than 30,000 Americans live with ALS, a condition that destroys motor neuron cells that control essential muscle activity, such as speaking, walking, breathing and swallowing.

What it is During a biofeedback session, you're hooked up to electrical sensors that chart and display your heart and breathing rates as well as your blood pressure, temp and muscle activity.

Cardio exercise is a type of physical activity that causes a sustained increase in your heart rate and breathing and consequently, an elevation in the circulation of blood and oxygen throughout the body and the working muscles.

A simple activity that can teach you how to use your abdominal (core) muscles to breathe better is to wrap your hand around your waist line, and then try to push your hands slightly away and out to the side as you breathe out.

Each day, your body must breathe, blink, circulate blood, control body temperature, grow new cells, support brain and nerve activity and contract muscles.

So, the lymph is a slow system by nature, one that mainly moves because of muscle activity and deep breathing.

The lymph mainly moves because of muscle activity and deep breathing.

And any activity that makes you breathe harder and faster will help exercise that important heart muscle as well!

In contrast, sleep studies of patients with central sleep apnea tend to show decreased activity in chest muscles, which can lead to periods of slowed or no breathing.