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Sinus pain diving7/26/2023 ![]() ![]() You can be injured if your body isn't able to adjust to the increasing and decreasing pressure of the water as you breathe compressed air. But the more likely dangers are those you can't see. Scuba diving can expose you to high waves and dangerous sea life. Your ears will have as good a jump as the rest of you, and you’ll be able to hear everyone at Skydive Tecumseh cheering when you come in for the landing.Condition Basics What are pressure injuries from scuba diving? No skydiving with a cold, just reschedule! And remember to equalize your ears if you feel pressure under the canopy. That’s it, just two rules for your safety and comfort. This changes the air pressure inside your ears to match the air pressure outside, bringing that comfortable equilibrium back. If you need to clear a little bit more, just swallow at the same time you are gently blowing into your nose. You’ll notice the subtle crinkly sounds of the soft bones of your ears shifting slightly to accommodate the movement of air. To equalize the pressure, just pinch your nostrils closed, close your mouth and gently breathe out as though you were breathing out through your nose. We have all experienced stuffed up ears, so you probably know what to do. Many of our Michigan tandem skydiving students seem to notice this feeling when they’re under a freshly-opened parachute.ĭon’t worry! The sensation is temporary, and you can take a few seconds to hurry it along. ![]() Depending on how your ears are built, it may feel like you have earplugs in there. You’ll feel the slowly changing pressure on the plane ride up, but it’s on the way down, when the pressure changes happen much more quickly, that you may feel the need to help things along proactively.ĭescending quickly from thin air to thicker air can give you the physiological sense that your ears are blocked. The backed-up pressures can be enough to blow out an eardrum. If you’re really congested, you might also suffer the painful outcome. The mucus in your sinus cavities has a tendency to come out all at once in freefall or under canopy, leaving both you and your Michigan Tandem Instructor a goopy mess. If you jump when you’re stuffy, you suffer the embarrassing outcome. Skydiving with a cold will result in one of two ugly results, the seriously embarrassing or the severely painful outcome. When you skydive with a head cold or sinus trouble, the blockages prevent the air pressure from equalizing. For these changing air pressures to be painless, your ears need to be clear. Here are rules and how-tos: RULE NUMBER 1: DON’T GO SKYDIVING WITH A COLD This is basic science, so it’s nice to know what rules those conditions set for a safe, comfortable and painless skydive for your ears and nose. As you travel up in the airplane from thicker air to a thinner atmosphere, the differential creates a push from the inside to the outside as the two try to equalize. Because the air is thinner higher up, the pressure outside your ears is less than inside. It would require a hydraulic jack to open the door of a pressurized plane, which would make the skydive exit tricky. The smaller size aircraft we use in skydiving isn’t pressurized. The plane goes up, parachute comes down, that cold you have means those eardrums and sinus cavities will not be happy. If you apply the logic of your previous flying experiences, you probably know that those same pressures will have at least a little effect on the skydiving experience. Anyone who’s flown in a commercial aircraft knows that the changing air pressure can make your head and sinuses feel miserable. Suffering through a cold and trying to decide if you feel up to skydiving this weekend? Let’s talk about ears and skydiving with a cold.
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