Just Breathe 101 Essential Details for Breathing Management
What you'll learn
- Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Medical providers will benefit from the information in this course.
- Summarize the detailed biomechanics of the Cervical spine, Thoracic spine, ribs, clavicle, and manubrium required for full elevation of the right or left sho
- Define dysfunctional breathing and explain how it can alter incontinence and spine stability.
- Explain how altered breathing patterns can alter pH and how this can ultimately affect the body.
- Name and describe the different types of sleep apnea.
- Describe the anatomical structure of the diaphragm including innervation and blood supply.
- List two theories of breathing retraining methods.
Requirements
- The course is designed for students who have a background in medical terminology and education. It is not designed for the general public. There is an alternate course on Udemy that provides similar information to the general public. It is the Breathing Essentials Series.
Description
Just Breathe 101 is a comprehensive examination of the function of breathing on the human body and actions for the management of dysfunction. The information presented in this seminar series ultimately will be become necessary tools for the clinician, in recognizing and developing strategies for alleviating Breathing Pattern Disorders. It is imperative that normal breathing patterns are retrained and maintained for spine health and overall patient wellbeing.
How does the way we breathe alter multiple systems of the body and how is the core connected to how we breathe?
These are some of the questions that will be answered in this in-depth seminar on respiration and its ultimate effects on the core and multiple body systems.
The Thorax is a vital component in spinal function. It is the center of trunk rotation and the center of respiration. The Thorax is a prime base for muscle and fascial connections that affect the cervical and lumbo/pelvic regions. When the respiratory system is in dysfunction, it can alter the function of the thorax, the body's physiology, trunk control, and ultimately ideal movement. The diaphragm plays a vital role in posture and respiration. It has intimate connections, muscularly, and neurologically with the lumbar spine, abdominals, and pelvic floor, which contributes to the diaphragm's ability to maintain intra-abdominal pressure, a fundamental role in spinal stability.
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, chronic pelvic and chest pain, gut pain, and chronic fatigue. Sleep apnea is also being recognized as a significant factor in accidents, mood disorders, and cardiovascular disease. In the acute care realm, the diaphragm is now being studied extensively due to the dysfunction that occurs with mechanical ventilation utilized in surgeries, injury, and disease. Functional knowledge of the respiratory system, thorax anatomy, and biomechanics and how it integrates with functional core stability will enable the student to connect and integrate the functional thorax into whole-body mechanics.
Videos in this seminar will deal with rib mechanics, rib decompression, breathing programs, examination, and treatment that can be utilized with almost all musculoskeletal patients including performance athletes as well as critically ill patients.
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 series will enable the student to connect the negative effects of dysfunction of respiration to specific pathologies and generate answers on the management of these pathologies.
What you will learn:
How to evaluate for a breathing pattern disorder.
Understand the far-reaching effects of Breathing Pattern Disorders.
Learn how to treat Breathing Pattern Disorders with multiple demonstration videos.
Learn easy exercises to teach your patients with Breathing Pattern Disorders
Who this course is for:
- Students that will benefit from this course are Physical Therpaist, Occupational Therapists, Doctors of Chiropractic and other medical providers.
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 40 Reviews
- 1,255 Students
- 6 Courses
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. Debra has taught many live manual therapy courses in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean 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 Live Conferences for Occupational Certified Hand Specialists in 2017. She has an online presence in Canada on embodiaapp and in the UK on Physiopedia with numerous courses and videos. She has also written online courses for the general public called Breathing Essentials on udemy and teachable that relate to breathing-related dysfunction and core dysfunction.
Debra has also written and published Differential Diagnosis of the Spine softcover and kindle editions in 2016 (available on Amazon).
She owns Cross Border Seminars and presently works as a consultant and contract PT in Florida. Her primary caseload is Rheumatology and spine.