Intro to Airway Evaluation & Treatment

Description

Ready to Transform Your Practice?

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to become an expert in airway evaluation and breathing retraining. Secure your spot today and start making a difference in your patients’ lives.

Prerequisites

All students must complete 8.5 hours of online didactic theory prework to ensure a solid foundation before attending the in-person training.

Course Benefits

• Comprehensive Learning: Delve into the anatomy of a healthy airway and learn to identify compromised airway anatomy.

• Practical Skills: From nasal breathing retraining to myofunctional therapy, gain hands-on experience during lab sessions.

• Tangible Outcomes: Acquire skills to reduce snoring, headaches, and neck pain.  Improve neck and spinal posture, and boost overall health and energy in your patients that may be suffering from chronic fatigue due to poor sleep.

• New Revenue Stream: Grow your practice from incremental business from patients experiencing snoring, sleep apnea, mouth breathing, TMJ, Tinnitus, chronic fatigue and head and neck pain - all from your newly acquired skill set.

Who Should Attend

PT, PTA, OT, OTA, SLP, Dentists, RDH and Medical Doctors.

Reviews

• “After integrating the techniques from this course, my patients report significantly less clenching and improved sleep quality.” - Dr. Thomas

• “I never realized how much airway evaluation training could change my practice. It’s been a game-changer!” - Dr. Rosen

• “Many thanks for your energy and tireless instruction you gave our class on the importance and physiological implications of breathing and airway obstructions.  You gave me and the other students an eye and mind-opening appreciation of this most important life-supporting discipline.”  - Dr. David Marcus, DDS.

• “As an aligned health professional who suffers from improper breathing techniques, I found the Breathing Clinic to be a fascinating and helpful review of how I can improve my own personal health and how my patients can benefit from going to meet with Dr. Hobson, too. I highly encourage anyone who might be suffering the symptoms of poor breathing form (frequent yawns, sighs, fatigue) to go and see if they can learn to breathe better. - Dr. Julia Sadove, DDS

• "The Breathing Clinic has helped me in many ways.  I now sleep through the night following Dr. Hobson's recommendations.   I had my deviated septum corrected 3 years ago but never learned how to breathe properly.  I learned how in this course.  I am a dentist and help patients correct their narrow arches but they still need to learn how to breathe properly.  Dr. Hobson can give them the tools they need.  She believes in whole body health and can help you to improve your health on a daily basis.  I highly recommend you see her as a physical therapist if you live in the Chicago area or if you don't, take her (training) clinics." - Dr. Nancy Ward, DDS

Private Course Opportunities

For host partner opportunities for a PRIVATE COURSE for your staff and colleagues, contact us to learn about exclusive benefits for workshop hosting.

Pricing

• $599 USD for New Graduates (within one year)

• $799 USD for PTs, SLPs, OTs, Myofunctional Therapists, Dental Hygienists, Allied Health Professionals

• $999 USD for Dentists, MDs

Course Objectives

This course will review anatomy of the healthy airway.

• Learn how to identify compromised airway anatomy.
• Learn how to evaluate the airway and identify breathing dysfunction.
• Understand the role of the tongue in Craniofacial growth and development.
• Understand the function of the tongue when it relates to airway support, neck.
• posture and lordosis, chewing, swallowing, articulation, and breathing.
• Begin basic treatment of restoring proper breathing and airway stabilization.
• Learn the basics of how to incorporate nasal breathing training and restoring proper volume of breath to help reduce upper airway resistance.
• Learn how a capnometer can help identify CO2 levels and breath rate for biofeedback during breathing retraining.
• Train how to stabilize the throat by utilizing the Uplock maneuver.
• Restore proper spinal posture and airway support through “Good Oral Posture Exercises” (GOPex)
• Review myofunctional therapy exercises to help support and restore airway patency.
• Review the latest research on causes of bruxism and snoring.

Full Course Description

This course will cover the introduction to airway evaluation and treatment. Dr. Jenny Hobson (aka Dr. Jenny) has been teaching the Hobson Institute Breathing Retraining program since 2015. In this course, she will be teaching health care practitioners the concepts of her breathing retraining program. As a physical therapist who focuses on improving the function of the body, Jenny has developed a treatment approach that stabilizes the airway by working on the tongue-to-soft-palate connection, nasal breathing patterns, proper volume of breath, and restoring proper function of the cranial nervous system.

The current medical literature states that upper airway resistance causes clenching and bruxism. Many practitioners and many of our patients have compromised nasal breathing that cause us to clench, grind, and snore and we are unaware that we are in a dysfunctional breathing pattern for years. A big missing part to the medical model is learning how to evaluate the airway and identify when the airway is compromised. The course will cover the evaluation and treatment of the airway to improve your patients’ health.

Students will be introduced to treatment approaches for children and adults that will reduce clenching and snoring, improve sleep, posture, overall health and energy levels. Techniques will include nasal breathing retraining, uplocker posterior-tongue-to-soft-palate stabilization, Good Oral Posture Exercise (GOPex), and Myofunctional therapy exercises to help support and improve airway patency. Lab time will allow each practitioner to go through a thorough evaluation of the airway and practice the treatment airway techniques of myofunctional therapy, nasal breathing retraining, uplocker training, and GOPex (Good Oral Posture).

About the Instructor

Dr. Jenny Hobson, PT, DPT, MTC, CFC, CMTPT

Dr. Jenny Hobson is a European-trained physical therapist; she earned her degree in physical therapy with an emphasis on manual therapy at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She completed clinical internships in Holland and Madrid, Spain, then concluded with a clinical residency in Advanced Orthopedics in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Hobson earned a Manual Therapy Certification, Craniofacial Certification, and Doctorate in Physical Therapy at the University of St. Augustine, Florida.  She received a certification in Trigger Point Dry Needling, by the renowned Dr. Jan Dommerholt, through Myopain Seminars. Dr. Hobson has been instrumental in introducing this technique to the state of Illinois in 2010. Fluent in Spanish, Dr. Hobson continues to train in Santiago, Chile, with her mentor, Dr. Mariano Rocabado, a leading Cranio-Facial rehabilitation expert. She is one of two PTs chosen to teach his approach through the University of St. Augustine of Health Sciences. 

Dr. Hobson is trained in Myofunctional Therapy and breathing re-training which has enhanced her knowledge of restoring not only the head, neck and jaw, but also the tongue and its functions related to proper development of the mouth, teeth, and airway.  Dr. Hobson is a certified educator of Buteyko Breathing method through the instruction of Patrick McKeown. She is also trained by Dr. Lois Laynee Restorative Breathing method which integrates the cranial nerves and the autonomic nervous system and its importance. She treats patients at the Hobson Institute in Chicago. She has been active in research on how the nasal release technique (NRT) reduces and treats post-concussion syndrome and how the use of the dental appliance, the “aqualizer”, reduces pelvic asymmetry (uneven iliac crest height) when administered while walking. 

She has been working in the field of dysfunctional breathing and understands how the airway compensates and changes our craniofacial growth and development pattern, ribcage mechanics, and spinal curves for the worse. Currently, her three clinics in the Chicagoland area also include the evaluation and treatment of Ankyloglossia/Tongue-tie, Mouth breathing, Breathing dysfunction, Snoring, Sleep apnea and Sleep Disordered Breathing for all ages from infants to adults.

Course Schedule

AGENDA In-Person Portion of Course

DAY 1

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Course CEUs

21 CEUs available for PTs & SLPs.