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Date: 8 December 2023
Location: From the comfort of your own home! Delivered via Zoom
Course times: 10.00 - 11.00
Prerequisite: Any Qualified Therapist
CPD points: 5 when reflection is completed
Course content: Do you ever feel anxious or treat clients who are anxious? Would you like to know about safe and effective ways to help someone who experiences breathlessness? People who experience breathlessness, especially older adults, have poorer physical and mental health than other people and are more likely to suffer anxiety and depression. Yet breathlessness can affect anyone and many of us have experienced anxiety and some stage. Over the course of her career as a physiotherapist and massage therapist Jane has worked on respiratory wards as well as in a hospice, working with people with breathing difficulties. In this webinar Jane will teach you about proven techniques to help improve breathing. Many of these techniques have the added benefit of increasing relaxation and therefor reducing anxiety too.
During this one-hour webinar you will learn:
- What are some of the reasons that cause a person to be short of breath, including anxiety?
- Which common conditions cause breathlessness?
- What evidence-based questionnaire could we use to assess a person’s degree of breathlessness?
- Useful questions to ask when working with someone who experiences regular breathlessness.
- How does changing position affect breathing and what positions are known to reduce breathlessness?
- Common breathing habits and why these are relevant
- Proven techniques to control breathing
- Where to signpost a person for further support with their breathing
This webinar focuses entirely on simple and safe techniques therapists can use to help someone with breathlessness. It does not cover the use of breathing devices or medications.
Course tutor: Dr Jane Johnson is a physiotherapist with a passion for helping therapists to gain confidence in hands-on techniques. A massage and sports massage therapistsfor many years, she appreciates the value of touch and thrives on sharing the many tips she has picked up over the years. Jane is the author of six books for therapists: Soft Tissue Release, Therapeutic Stretching, Deep Tissue Massage, Postural Assessment, Postural Correction and The Big Back Book; Tips and Tricks for Therapists.
Please note webinars are CPD sessions only and are not to teach insurable hands-on skills.
If you are booked on to this webinar you will receive a recording following on from the session. If you are not able to attend live, you can watch at a time that suits you.
You will need:
- Laptop/tablet
- Pen/ pencils
- Paper
Charity donation: We are asking webinar attendees to donate £1 of their booking to go towards The Trussell Trust, which supports a nationwide network of food banks and provides emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaign to end the need for food banks in the UK. Attendees will be given the opportunity to donate £1 of their booking or opt-out of the donation within the booking form.
Webinar price and bookings:
FHT members: £15 (including £1 donation to The Trussell Trust)
Non-members: £20 (including £1 donation to The Trussell Trust)
Terms and conditions
Bookings and payments
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- Full payment must be made at the time of booking.
- You may cancel a course booking at any time.
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- If the course commences during the 14-day cancellation period, we will retain an amount of your booking that is in proportion to goods that have been provided or services performed up until you have communicated to us your cancellation of the booking.
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- Cancellations made after the 14-day cancellation period will be subject to an administration fee of £28.
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