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Breathing Essentials: Breathing Pattern Disorders
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Breathing Essentials: Breathing Pattern Disorders

Respiration and the Impact on Health, Posture, Pain, Movement and Performance.
Created byDebra Dent
Last updated 11/2020
English
English

What you'll learn

  • The student should have a better understanding how the body responds to dysfunctional breathing in any number of ways.
  • How poor breathing mechanics will alter posture of the neck and back.
  • How poor breathing problems can cause different pain patterns.
  • How fast breathing patterns can accentuate stress responses.

Course content

2 sections • 20 lectures • 1h 38m total length

  • Introduction4:30

    Explore how breathing pattern disorders and poor breathing habits worsen neck and back pain and headaches, and learn simple exercises to expand the rib cage and breathe through the sides.

  • Disclaimer1:23
  • Suboptimal Breathing Patterns11:54

    Identify suboptimal breathing patterns by noting rapid shallow breaths, upper chest and rib cage movement, neck muscle overuse, and paradoxical breathing. Emphasize nasal breathing and diaphragm dysfunction.

  • Paradoxical Breathing0:19

    This is classic paradoxical breathing.  I introduced this to you in the first course.  I am hoping by reintroducing it that it will make more sense now that you understand altered breathing patterns.  Again, go look in the mirror.  Are you breathing like this?

  • Upper Chest Versus Diaphragmatic Breathing Video2:06
  • Suboptimal Breathing Patterns
  • Obesity and COVID 191:38
  • Autonomic Nervous System7:57

    Explore the autonomic nervous system’s parasympathetic and sympathetic roles in breathing and stress. See how anxiety drives shallow, upper-chest breathing and diaphragm flattening, leading to forward head posture.

  • Autonomic Nervous System Quiz
  • Somatic Dysfunction18:58
  • Breathing Practice Instructions and Demonstration2:33

    I know you have seen this video in the first class but these are the techniques that I use with my hyperventilating patients, my anxious patient and my patients who I feel have Somatic Dysfunction.

  • Breathing Practice Demonstration3:22

    Apply controlled breathing through five hand-position exercises to slow breathing to 3–7 breaths per minute, reduce anxiety, and promote parasympathetic calm, especially before sleep or in stressful moments.

  • Somatic Dysfunction Quiz
  • Dysfunction of the Diaphragm7:44

    Show through dynamic MRI that a healthy diaphragm generates intra-abdominal pressure with smooth contraction and excursion, supporting trunk stability; pathology reduces excursion and alters breathing, increasing reliance on accessory muscles.

  • Dysfunction of the Diaphragm Quiz
  • Upper Extremity Dysfunction and Cervical Spine Related to Breathing Patterns17:37
  • Upper Extremity Dysfunction and Cervical Spine Related to Breathing Patterns

Requirements

  • The student should have taken Anatomy and Function of Respiration before taking this course. It will make is much easier to follow.

Description

The Impact of Altered Breathing Patterns on Pain and Posture

Course Overview
Stress, pain, injury, and daily life can all disrupt normal breathing mechanics. These altered breathing patterns can change blood biochemistry and negatively influence overall health and function. Despite their significance, faulty breathing habits are often overlooked as contributors to spinal dysfunction, chronic pain, and musculoskeletal disorders—including fibromyalgia, somatic dysfunctions, neck pain, and upper extremity pain.

In this course, you’ll explore how disordered breathing affects the body’s systems and structures.

What You’ll Learn

  • The Science of Altered Breathing: Understand how dysfunctional breathing influences body chemistry, posture, and movement.

  • Somatic Dysfunctions: Learn what they are, how they develop, and their connection to chronic pain and respiratory imbalance.

  • Autonomic Nervous System Imbalance: Explore how an overactive autonomic system and paradoxical breathing patterns affect body function and stress regulation.

  • Diaphragm Dysfunction: Discover what happens when the diaphragm fails to function efficiently, and how this impacts the cervical spine, shoulders, and lower back.

  • Biomechanics & Physiology of Poor Breathing: Delve into the evidence-based research behind how altered breathing patterns change movement mechanics and contribute to dysfunction.

Hands-On Learning

The course includes dedicated breathing exercise modules, with practical demonstrations and guided techniques interspersed throughout to help you recognize—and correct—inefficient breathing patterns.

Grounded in current research, this course provides both the theoretical foundation and practical tools needed to improve breathing efficiency, reduce pain, and enhance functional performance.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who is interested in changing their spinal pain, headaches and dysfunction.

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