Talk:Getting the wind knocked out of you

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  • I'm completely familar with the phenomenon, but is there possibly a better title for the article? Joyous | Talk 03:13, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
*shrugs* I'm open to suggestions. —Lantoka ( talk | contrib) 03:33, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

how about "temporary diaphram paralysis"?--67.50.233.113 18:20, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

What about "Getting Winded"? It is more concise than the current title. --Eneufeld 18:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

To me "getting winded" means getting tired from strenuous exercise, and I've heard a doctor use the phrase as a description for a mild asthma. I don't think that phrase should appear in this article at all. LockeShocke 03:21, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Just a thought, but if we change the title no one will be able to find the article, as no one knows what the phenomenon is called. "Getting the wind knocked out of you" is the exact thing I searched for, word for word. DevinOfGreatness 03:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Proposal

Merge. with re-direct from Getting Winded. (possible a disambig from Winding)? It stops this being a stub. Mdcollins1984 13:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Mild Oppose I think this topic merits its own article, although I wouldn't lose sleep at night if it got merged into another article and the page's name redirected there. —Lantoka ( talk | contrib) 01:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

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The discussion up to this point about the title of this article took place at Talk:User Account Control#Merge in Run as administrator. No source has been given that "diaphragm spasm" is the correct term for this concept, and Reswobslc himself (or herself) stated that they made up the term. —Remember the dot (t) 05:58, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Reswobslc requested the speedy deletion of Diaphragm spasm in order to place this article under that title again. —Remember the dot (t) 06:00, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Um, I made up the title. Not the term. Rather, I should say that I selected the title. Because if you Google "diaphragm spasm", Google knows what you're talking about. ANd if you google "wind knocked out", every page that purports to explain what that means describes the diaphragm muscle spasming, without giving it a specific medical name beyond this. And when I challenged you to do a move, I certainly meant to move it to a more appropriate name, like a medically-accepted word, not to a non-encyclopedic idiomatic slang term that contains the word "you". Reswobslc 06:14, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

So getting the wind knocked out of you is an example of a diaphragm spasm, but a diaphragm spasm does not necessarily mean you've had the wind knocked out of you. This source talks about diaphragm spasms in relation to side stitches.

I wish we had a doctor who could tell us the authoritative answer... —Remember the dot (t) 06:51, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I wholeheartedly agree, and if a doctor says it's been called a Somethingus Whateverus since the time of Julius Caesar, then it shall be changed at once. Hiccups are also a diaphragm spasm, but not of the getting-the-wind-knocked-out-of-you sort. That pretty much sums up how I saw the issue. There's got to be a medical name for it. Just no one here knows it. Reswobslc 08:09, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Look, why not just turn the page into a disambiguation page, and link to both this page and Hiccup? (Or any other medical conditions that result in spasms?) -- RoninBK T C 11:31, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

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How long do they last, on average or at an extreme?

70.248.20.165 (talk) 06:01, 10 May 2008 (UTC)