My MD says I have COPD. The Pulmonologist, after reviewing Clear X-rays, a Clear CT Scan, two PFT's showing normal ranges and a FEV1 of 93 percent perdicted said I had reactive airways. My major complaint is chest pain, and as I said to my MD, painful breathing is lousy breathing. Painful breathing causes your breathing to frequently feel guarded. Basicaly, I have muscle tension and pain in the neck muscles, shoulders, muscles involved in breathing on the sides, back and front of rib cage. I also feel very uncomfortable with allot of tension and pain in the sternum. Essentialy, the whole chest area, neck, back, sides feel frequently restricted. They feel the most restricted when I am standing or sitting. They tend to free up brisk walking and deep breathing, laying down on the floor and deep breathing, swimming laps in the pool and back bending.
Is this a true statement or not that I made to my MD, that muscle tension and painful restrictions of muscles, tendons, joints, the rib cage, sternum, costal joints, essentialy the whole structure the lungs have to work against and with to open and close can have the effect of making you feel like your breathing badly and can actualy make you breath badly from these tight restrictions?
All I know is that a month ago my chest hurt so bad after standing for a couple of hours I felt like I could barely take a deep breath and even full exhales hurt. After a month of getting my back worked over by a shiatzu massage chair everyday, brisk morning walks, deep breathing excercises, and lap swimming in the pool everyday, the pain and sense of restriction is not nearly as bad, or frequent.