Breathing pattern disorders - treatment approaches

This is the final blog on breathing pattern disorders and presents the main ideas that represent how my clinical practice has changed with regards to treatment. The blog focusses on manual therapy, therapeutic exercises and patient education around the treatment of BPD. 

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Breathing pattern disorders - where do they fit in?

The previous blog introduced why I feel breathing patterns are something we should be spending more time assessing or at least delving into more detail about. This blog looks at the different aspects of assessment - questionning and physical tests - that we can build into clinical practice. 

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Breathing pattern disorders - do they matter?

I've been studying a well-regarded textbook; Recognizing and Treating Breathing Disorders. It is incredibly well written and packed with information from multiple clinical domains and approaches. The goal for these next few blogs is to summarise the key learnings from the book and highlight areas of focus for 2018 to improve how I assess and treat breathing disorders in patients presenting to physical therapy in a private practice setting. 

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