what happens when you knock the wind out of yourself? And. Can i die cause it feels like i could die
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The hit on the solar plexus makes your diaphragm have spasms. As it only lasts for a short time (never like more than a minute for me, it takes much longer to die) it won’t be long enough for you to suffocate.
It is scary for the first few times but if you encounter it more often (I did martial arts so it happened like monthly to me) you just roll with it, make weird arm movements to tell everyone you’re okay (as you cannot speak) and then just wait it out.
There are different lung volumes. The residual volume is the air left in the lungs after you have forced out all the air you can. So when you breath out and then push out as much air as possible after exhaling normally, you still have air in your lungs, the residual volume.
When you get the wind knocked out of you, the residual volume is pushed out by the force of the blow. Hence feeling like you are dying.
Under normal circumstances, in a healthy individual, I do not believe this can kill you, but I’m not a doctor.
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