And what is true of all the techniques to counter / prevent them by, for example, breathing in briefly and exhaling for a long time, breathing in twice,…
Answer
koen,
Stitches in your side during exercise are the result of spleen contractions. Due to the (imminent) lack of oxygen as a result of the increased effort, your body tries to partly compensate for this. Your spleen then contracts to bring extra blood into the bloodstream to improve the oxygenation of your muscles.
You may now be wondering why we can sometimes feel those stings on the right, while the spleen is on the left in our abdominal cavity. This has to do with the fact that the nerves coming from the spleen cross at the level of the spinal cord, causing our brains to misinterpret the signal. In any case, pain originating from our abdominal cavity is more difficult to interpret than pain, for example, as a result of a cut in our index finger.
I cannot make scientific statements about the techniques. Training harder is probably the only way to push your limits.
Regards
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Vet Kristof Baert
Fauna Management and Invasive Species Rodent control: brown rat, muskrat and coypu Wildlife diseases
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