Short Stuff: Getting Winded | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

[Music]. hey and welcome to the short stuff I'm. Josh and there's Chuck and it's just us. but we're going to do it no problem. everybody just calm down this is short. stuff that's right uh I thought about. getting one together about this topic. because uh my daughter Ruby got the wind. knocked out of her for the first time oh. no couple of weeks ago MH and told me. about it I wasn't there when it happened. it happened at school and she said it. was scary and I was like Hey listen.

kiddo that happened to me uh I think she. got hit in the chest or something but I. uh when I was young fell out of a tree. about probably about I mean it wasn't. super high but it was probably like. seven or eight feet like directly on my. back mhm and got the wind knocked out of. me really bad I think maybe the only. time that's happened and it's if you've. never had it happen it's a very panicky. scary situation M because you literally. cannot get a breath you're just like uh. I wish people could see me now cuz I'm.

sort of silently freaking out but you. cannot inhale or exhale uh for a very. short period for a period of a few. seconds until you go and get your breath. again finally but I was like what what's. going on there and we found out yeah. also um that's funny that that coincided. with somebody wrote in an email in the. last like week or so asking for us to. explain getting out of yeah so it's in. the it's in the air right now apparently. well I wish we could name that person. but I didn't realize is that so thank.

you to whoever that was so um there's. another another name for this it's. called frenos spasm the reason why it. involves your frenic nerve which. controls your diaphragm which is. essentially at the center of this whole. thing um and to understand I guess how. all this works you kind of have to. understand how we breathe right yeah oh. okay I'll tell everybody how you breathe. so that diaphragm is a huge mass of like. muscle and tendon it's kind of like Dome.

shaped it almost looks like the insignia. for um the Star Trek Federation right. right underneath your lungs I'm trying. to bring some of our nerdier fans back. okay and when it. expands uh like we exhale because it. forces our lungs it forces air out of. our lungs when we inhale again the. diaphragm contracts and gets smaller so. our lungs can fill with air eventually. they reach a point where they're low. enough in pressure the the air inside of.

our lungs is low enough in pressure. compared to the outside air pressure. that the outside air is like I can't. stand it anymore and rushes in to fill. our lungs up which um allows us to. breathe again exactly and if we're just. hanging out if we're relaxed or even if. we're doing something athletic uh the. diaphragm is working as it should. breathing is involuntary it's an. automatic function of our nervous system. our body's just doing it and there's. really no no problems that are happening.

the problem with getting. winded uh happens when you get a uh. either like a sock to the chest um if if. you ever look up like uh like martial. arts like you know where should I hit. somebody to to take them down MH uh. they'll they'll list a bunch of things. like the side of the neck or you know. all these different places where you can. where you can punch someone to kind of. um not paralyze them necessarily but at. least stop them and they always say like. aim for that solar plexus which is very.

near the diaphragm and it's it sort of. acts like a bullseye if you're trying to. say like punch. there uh and so if you get socked right. there either by a fist or if you fall. out of that tree and land on your back. or something uh it can potentially you. know uh paralyze at least temporarily. paralyze that diaphragm because it's. spasming to the point where you're. you're just nothing is working as it. should and it's it is super super scary.

yeah so your diaphragm is is either like. you said paralyzed or else it's spasming. and when that happens not only can you. not breathe in the the reason you start. panicking immediately is part of getting. the wind knocked out of you and the. reason that name is so perfect is the. first part of it is all of the air in. your lungs is expelled suddenly right so. you've got no air in reserve and you. can't breathe that's why it sucks so. terribly terribly bad um you're like. dying for a few seconds yeah pretty.

pretty much I mean you are the thing is. is from everything I've seen it's not a. life-threatening thing your um your. diaphragm stops spasming um like like. clockwork in just a few seconds and you. start breathing again it takes a little. while for the Panic to subside because. your lizard brain is on like overdrive. yeah but um but you will start breathing. again um and talking about the solar. plexus for a second may I stand my soap. box for a second yeah yeah so if you. read around the internet what causes um.

the wind to get knocked out of you or. what. happens people will add the solar plexus. in and at base the reason that it it. gets added is exactly as you described. it that's where your diaphragm is right. yeah but the solar plexus specifically. is a bundle of nerves that controls like. your like the the um your guts and your. stomach and your spleen and your liver. and all that stuff and it's actually the. thing that slows down gestion when.

you're in fight or flight mode it's that. solar plexus bundle of nerves that's. like oh okay we'll we'll just sit here. for a little while while we run. um the problem that I found and this is. why I'm on my soap box is plenty of. people who have written articles on this. kind of thing go a step further and say. well your your solar plexus um is. temporarily disabled and so your. diaphragm doesn't work your solar plexus. has nothing to do with um sending nerve. signals to to your diaphragm and it just.

drove me nuts to see it over and over. and over again because they wouldn't. they wouldn't explain it yeah they. wouldn't go any further they just toss. that out and for anybody who doesn't. know or doesn't care to look further. like that's that's some some bu who. knows what they're talking about wrote. this fact-based researched article and. it's just wrong and that drives me so. crazy man it's everywhere it's just so. lazy and it's it's just a form of. spreading misinformation through. laziness.

yeah and I think well first of all I. don't think it's a very big deal so it's. it's not but collectively cumulatively. it is yeah but it's uh I think it's just. sort of a a a more specific Bullseye and. a shorthand for like instead of saying. punch someone in the diaphragm or punch. someone in the stomach right it's it's a. little bit higher than that uh the solar. plexus is sort of midway between your. Naval and I guess what is that the. bottom of your pecs I saw yeah the. bottom of your pecs so I think it's just. sort of short hand but it's such such a.

thing a such a short hand that getting. the wind knocked out of you like a. doctor might even call it a solar plexus. attack you go go see a different doctor. the doctor says that I want to shout out. a guy named Kevin Toof t k o p at. Catalyst University who saw that video. yeah he he did a great video on all this. and went to the trouble explaining all. that that the solar plexus really. doesn't have anything to do with it it's. just happens to be in the wrong place at. the wrong time basically he didn't get a.

worked up like you though huh no no he. was a cool he played pretty cool yeah uh. all right go check out the video because. it explains this in a pretty cool way. with visuals but uh we'll be back to. talk about what you might do if you have. found that you have had uh a solar. plexus attack right after this man. [Music].

all right what can you do buddy if you. get if you get sucked in land on your. back or something well the stuff that we. found is basically talking to the coach. of the of the Little League team um. basically what you want to do is you. have your your the person who had the. wind knocked out of them take a knee. right so when he's on the ground knees. forward have them uh raise their hands.

above their head arch their back and. stick their chest out you want to hold. their hands up and kind of pull it back. a little bit and tell them to breathe. deeply long inhalations short. inhalations long exhalations and very. quickly you will start breathing. normally or the the the kid will yeah if. you're by yourself uh try to get into. that you know position and and raise. your arms yourself but if you're too. freaked out uh maybe just sit up in like. a Crouch position position um try and.

again breathe through your mouth uh. breathe in through your mouth that is. push your stomach out then suck your. stomach back like try and be real just. intentional with your breathing and try. and relax try and stay calm that's like. the biggest thing is like all right I. know what's happened to me and that I. will breathe again so try and kind of. dim the Panic a little bit uh I've also. seen where if you if you're near a. pillow if you fall a tree you're kind of. out of look I guess but if there is a. pillow you can put a pillow under your.

knees uh and head and that will I guess. get you in a in a better position but. again if you're with someone try try to. get them to help you or hopefully. they'll know to help you with the over. the head stuff right I guess you could. be a kid who knew they were going to. fall out of a tree but they were jumping. out of a tree so they strapped a pillow. to their front and back as pading and. then found it didn't work but then you. have the pillows handy when you're. trying to get the breath back in you. yeah yeah but just know that you'll. start breathing uh you'll get that big.

inhale in a matter of seconds and then. you'll be just sort of breathing. normally in a few minutes usually I saw. like 10 to 15 but I haven't seen that it. really even takes that long really long. yeah I don't remember when I or what the. circumstances were for me getting the. wind knocked out of me but I definitely. have it feels like a ride of Passage I. think so and hopefully it does not. happen to you but if it does stay calm. one other thing though if the breathing. does not not return to normal within.

several minutes or 10 to 15 minutes go. to the hospital because you might have. like a fractur fractured rib or a. collapsed lung totally something worse. could have happened but that's how you. tell yeah absolutely I have a tailbone. bruise from spring break like two and a. half weeks ago that just will not go. away man those hurt yeah it's it just. every time I'm sitting for a while and I. get up and walk it just feels like. someone's stabbing me in my right butt. cheek oh you need one of those. inflatable Donuts.

huh I guess that would help it's just I. think that a deep tailbone rge just. takes a long long time yeah to go away. you going to tell us how you got that. was it through rope trauma no a golf. cart injury uh one of those deals you. know golf carts when you're sitting. there they have the little handrail. that's very hard on the side right by. your hip uh if you go to sit down and. your golf cart buddy hits the gas and it. just it just drove right into my butt. bone oh my God yeah yeah I'm all right.

though that's a great way to end this. one all right short stuff. out stuff you should know is a. production of iHeart radio for more. podcasts ihart radio visit the iHeart. Radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you. listen to your favorite shows. [Music].