The Valsalva maneuver is one of several simple physical actions called vagal maneuvers that act on the vagus nerve to slow your heart rate. Doctors may suggest vagal maneuvers to try and slow your ...

The Valsalva maneuver is a breathing technique that can help slow down your heart rate when it’s beating too fast. In some cases, healthcare providers use this maneuver to monitor changes in ...

Named the Valsalva maneuver, after the 17th century Italian anatomist who described it, the trick is the same used by air travelers and skin divers to clear their ears on descent. It also has much ...

The Valsalva maneuver is performed by having a patient “bear down” — as if they are going to have a bowel movement, exhaling forcefully with the airway closed. The hemodynamic changes that ...

We therefore consider the eponym not entirely suitable. Valsalva 1 described a maneuver useful in expelling pus from the middle ear. It consisted of expiring against the closed nose and mouth.

Many of them have referred to this phenomenon as “musical stuttering” or the Valsalva Maneuver. The term Valsalva Maneuver refers to a breathing technique used to lower blood pressure ...