A normal gag reflex and a healthy tone in the smooth muscles around your throat are typically suggestive of a normal vagal ...

In short, it helps our bodies restore homeostasis or equilibrium. Instances of ‘low vagal tone’ (a condition when the vagus nerve is not firing well) are associated with slower physical and ...

The Valsalva manoeuvre works by stimulating the vagus nerve, which plays a key role in controlling heart rate. When a person performs the breathing technique, it increases pressure in the chest ...

The Valsalva maneuver involves breathing out forcefully while holding your mouth and nose closed. This, too, stimulates the vagus nerve, and researchers have found that it can sometimes stop hiccups.

Regular and long-term participation in intensive exercise (minimum of 4 h/week) is associated with unique electrical manifestations that reflect increased vagal tone and enlarged cardiac chamber size.

In contrast, type III incontinence is associated with no urethral mobility during Valsalva maneuvers and a low proximal urethral pressure (< 20 cm H2O). Type III stress incontinence may also be ...

Purpura (skin hemorrhage > 2 mm) and petechiae (up to 2 mm) can be caused by dermal capillary rupture due to the intrathoracic pressure increase associated with Valsalva maneuvers. Valsalva ...

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