Diaphragmatic breathing helps a person engage the diaphragm fully while breathing. This may provide a number of health benefits, including:

strengthening the diaphragm

improving stability in the core muscles

slowing the breathing rate

lowering heart rate and blood pressure

reducing oxygen demand

promoting relaxation

Heres our top tips for practising mindfulness, mindfulness is a technique that can be used to help cope in times of stress. Taking even just a few minutes a day to practice mindfulness techniques can help you better manage your emotions.

Persistent pain might seem tricky to manage but there are a number of things you can do to help yourself using a few different types of relaxation and distraction techniques.