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Fully updated throughout, Chaitow's Breathing Pattern Disorders, third edition, is a comprehensive guide designed for practitioners to recognise, assess, and address Breathing Pattern Disorders and Dysfunctional Breathing (BPD/DB). Reorganised for clarity, it features dedicated sections on multidisciplinary assessment, evidence-based treatment strategies, and practical self-help resources to restore optimal breathing function.

Series editor Sasha Chaitow reconvenes an international team of experts and new contributors to enhance and expand this bestselling book. Accompanied by 25 instructional videos featuring Leon Chaitow demonstrating key techniques, this book is an essential resource for clinical practice across professions.

Unique in its focus and scope, this edition clarifies BPD/DB terminology, integrates the latest research, and explores the physiological, psychological, structural, and biochemical contributing factors. Guiding the practitioner in a range of clinical settings, it includes practical tips and techniques to support normal functionality.

• Restructured content with a robust evidence base, multidisciplinary assessment, and therapeutic protocols
• An **increased emphasis on whole-person healthcare**, self-efficacy support, and interoceptive awareness
• A new focus on post-COVID breathing dysfunction
• A new section on women**’**s health
• An updated, photocopiable self-help section
• Case studies and hands-on clinical protocols

• An eBook version included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

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  1. What are Breathing Pattern Disorders?
     Leon Chaitow, Dinah Bradley, Chris Gilbert
     2.1 Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization - Developmental Kinesiology: breathing stereotypes and postural-locomotion function
     Pavel Kolar, Alena Kobesova, Petra Valouchova, Petr Bitnar
     2.2. The structure and function of breathing
     Leon Chaitow, Dinah Bradley, Chris Gilbert
     2.3. Nasal influences on breathing
     Jim Bartley
  2. Patterns of breathing dysfunction in hyperventilation and breathing pattern disorders
     Dinah Bradley
  3. Biochemical aspects of breathing
     Chris Gilbert (notes on food sensitivities and nutrition: Leon Chaitow)
     5. Interaction of psychological and emotional variables with breathing dysfunction
     Chris Gilbert
     6.1 Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization: Assessment methods
     Pavel Kolar, Alena Kobesova, Petra Valouchova, Petr Bitnar
     6.2 Osteopathic assessment of structural changes related to BPD
     Leon Chaitow
     6.4 Physiotherapy Assessment Approaches
     Dinah Bradley
     6.5 Psychological assessment of breathing problems
     Chris Gilbert
     6.6 Questionnaires and Manual Methods for Assessing Breathing Dysfunction
     Rosalba Courtney, Jan van Dixhoorn
     Capnography Assessment
     Laurie McLaughlin
     7.1a Indirect approaches to breathing regulation
     Jan van Dixhoorn
     7.1b Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization: Treatment methods
     Pavel Kolar, Alena Kobesova, Petra Valouchova, Petr Bitnar
     7.2 Osteopathic treatment of thoracic and respiratory dysfunction
     Leon Chaitow
     7.3 Physiotherapy in rehabilitation of breathing pattern disorders
     Dinah Bradley
     7.4 Physiotherapy in rehabilitation of breathing pattern disorders
     Chris Gilbert
     7.5 Speech and singing
     Eva au Zveglic
     7.6 Breathing Pattern Disorders and the Athlete
     Tania Clifton Smith
     7.7 Capnography in treatment of BPD
     Laurie McLaughlin
     8.1 Breathing patterns in longstanding pain disorders: A somatocognitive approach to evaluation and therapy
     G. Haugstad, T. Haugstad
     8.2 Buteyko breathing method
     Rosalba Courtney
     8.3 Feldenkrais® and Breathing
     John C. Hannon
     8.4 Pilates in the rehabilitation of breathing disorders
     Warrick McNeill, Suzanne Scott
     8.5 Tai chi Qigong and breathing
     Aileen Chan
     8.6 A review of the use of yoga in breathing disorders
     Shirley Telles, Nilkamal Singh
     9 Self-help approaches
     Leon Chaitow, Dinah Bradley, Chris Gilbert