Breathing Essentials: The Anatomical Details
What you'll learn
- What will the student take away from this course?
- The student will have a good grasp of anatomy and function of the trunk inorder to be able to apply the exercises and practices that will be taught within the courses in this series.
Requirements
- Are you suffering from neck pain, headaches, back pain and hip pain? Are you slowly collapsing in height? Is your performance lacking in sports?
- Breathing Essentials will give you the tools necessary to alleviate Breathing Pattern Disorders in the pursuit of ideal posture and motion.
- In this first course on anatomy and function, the student will be taught the anatomy and function of the respiratory system. There is no ying and yang in this course. The material in this course is based on valid evidence in the studies and current reseach.
Description
Dysfunction of the respiratory complex, trunk muscular imbalances, muscular inhibition and weakness, myofascial restrictions, loss of axial rotation and chronic hyperventilation, all have significant effects on posture, trunk stability, chronic pain, upper extremity and lower extremity function and motion.
This seminar is the second of six seminars that will enable the student to connect the negative effects of dysfunction of respiration and generate answers on the management of these issues. This seminar deals with the anatomy and function of respiration. Taking one or all of the seminars will provide the essential tools necessary for recognizing and strategies for alleviating Breathing Pattern Disorders in the Pursuit of Ideal Posture and Motion.
Who this course is for:
- This is an excellent course for anyone who is suffering from some type of spine pain, dysfunction and limitations.
- The concepts in this course are simple and strive to educate the student on their anatomy and function of their muscular and spinal structures as they deal with gravity and motion.
- Once a student understands the anatomy and function of respiration, they can follow the details on how to correct dysfunctional breathing patterns.
Course content
- Preview01:23
- Preview16:16
- 4 questionsBreathing Essentials: Skeletal Components
- 22:46Breathing Essentials: Muscular Component
- 4 questionsBreathing Essentials: Muscular Component
- 08:54Breathing Essentials: Mechanics of Quiet Breathing
- 2 questionsMechanics of Quiet Breathing Quiz
- 02:06Video demonstration: Upper Chest versus Diaphragmatic Breathing
- 18:52Breathing Essentials: Physiology of Respiration
- 4 questionsPhysiology of Respiration Quiz
- 13:40Breathing Essentials: Function of the Diaphragm
- 4 questionsBreathing Essentials: Function of the Diaphragm Quiz
- 00:19Video demonstrating poor lateral costal expansion and upper chest breathing.
- 02:00Lateral Costal Expansion
- 03:22Breathing Practice
- 10:59References for the Research
- 00:20Bonus Lecture
Instructor
![Debra Dent](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Debra Dent is a Physical Therapist with 40 plus years of experience specializing in manual therapy of the spine. She is a graduate of the University of Manitoba, Canada where she received her Diploma of Physiotherapy in 1977 and her Bachelors of Physical Therapy in 1979. She was certified as a Part A Manual Physical Therapist from the Canadian Physiotherapy Association Orthopaedic Division in 1989 and received her Advanced Diploma of Manual and Manipulative Physiotherapy in 1994, and was a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manual Physical Therapist (FCAMPT) until retiring 2019. APTA Orthopedic Certified Specialist (OCS) designation was completed in 1996 and recertified in 2006 and Emeritus status was received in 2016. She has been teaching Physiotherapists since 1989.
Debra was an instructor for the Canadian Physiotherapy Association Orthopaedic Division prior to moving to the USA in 1993. She was a guest clinical instructor at the University of South Florida from 2003-05, teaching the Spinal Manual Therapy Program for the MscPT undergraduate program. She has taught many manual therapy courses in the US and Canada through Cross Border Seminars, Cross Country Education/VYNE Seminars and TLC Physical Therapy and Rehab. She wrote the Segmental Stabilization of the Lumbar Spine for Northeast Seminars Online programs. She has also written Proximal Imposters, a four-part series with LiveConferences for Occupational Certified Hand Specialists in 2017, Differential Diagnosis of the Spine with Home CEU Connections in 2016. She has also written and published Differential Diagnosis of the Spine soft cover and kindle editions in 2016 and this is available on Amazon.
She owns Cross Border Seminars and presently works as a consultant and contract PT in Florida. Her primary case load is Rheumatology and spine.