Breathing Essentials: Breathing Pattern Disorders
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.
Requirements
- The student should have taken Anatomy and Function of Respiration before taking this course. It will make is much easier to follow.
Description
Altered breathing patterns brought on by life, stress, pain, and injury can alter the biochemistry of the blood system and produce negative effects on the health of the body. Faulty breathing patterns are rarely looked at as being a possible cause of spinal dysfunctions as well as propagating continued pain patterns in fibromyalgia, somatic dysfunctions, and neck pain and upper extremity pain.
In this course, you will learn the effects of altered breathing patterns, what somatic dysfunctions are, the effect of an overriding autonomic nervous system and paradoxical breathing. You will also learn what happens when the diaphragm goes into dysfunction and when altered breathing patterns alter the biomechanics of your cervical spine, shoulders and lower back. This course deals with the details of physiology and biomechanics of poor breathing patterns. Again everything is evidence-based on studies from the research.
There will be a breathing exercise section as well as breathing exercises interspersed throughout the course to demonstrate ways to change your breathing.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who is interested in changing their spinal pain, headaches and dysfunction.
Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 168 Reviews
- 1,435 Students
- 6 Courses
Debra Dent is a Physical Therapist with 45-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 Bachelor 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 Therapists (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, and 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.