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 focused on teaching health care practitioners the concepts of her breathing retraining program. As a physical therapist who focuses on improving the function of the body, Dr. Jenny has developed a researched based treatment approach that stabilizes the airway by working on the tongue-to-soft-palate connection, nasal breathing pattern, 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 their patients have compromised nasal breathing that can cause them 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 stability is compromised. The course will cover the evaluation and treatment of the airway to improve your patients’ overall health, spinal alignment, airway support and proper breathing pattern. Students will be introduced to treatment approaches for children and adults that will reduce clenching and snoring, improve sleep, posture, headaches, 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, and an introduction to the Laynee Restorative Breathing method.
There is a 14.5 hour self study online portion of the course that is a prerequisite of the course. Students will be sent their login and password one month prior to the course for them to have plenty of time to review the material. They will continue to have access to the online portion for 1 month after the course. The rest of the course will be in person and will include practical lab time to 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, GOPex, and Laynee Restorative breathing method.