Breath Mechanics for Pelvic Health and Fitness

Breath Mechanics for Pelvic Health and Fitness

Julie Wiebe, PT

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Course Description:

Breathing links multiple body systems together. Using a change in breath mechanics is a powerful and easy to apply tool in rehab and fitness. A variety of strategies exist that can help women re-organize the systems that are impacted by pregnancy, restore foundational central control, manage and harness high pressures to promote pelvic health and performance, reduce over-recruitment of the abdomen or pelvic floor, reduce pelvic pain and more. The brain loves to breath well, and move well. When breath changes are integrated with meaningful movements and fitness, it builds brain strategies. The end game is for these brain strategies to become a new, automatic, subconscious baseline, so that conscious attention to breathing is no longer needed.

There is no one size fits all breathing intervention strategy. Tune in to deepen your understanding of the research and reasoning behind a continuum of options and intervention strategies. Learn when, how, why and with whom to apply these ideas. Explore the Breath Mechanics for Pelvic Health and Fitness video series now. (30 minutes). This series was created to prevent formulaic thinking and third party interpretations of the many breathing strategies that are taught by and used by Julie Wiebe, PT. Time to learn straight from the source.

Course Schedule: (30 minutes)

Video 1: Why Use Breath Strategies?

Video 2: Breath Strategies to Reconnect ( i.e. build central control, integrate the pelvic floor and promote diastasis healing after pregnancy)

Video 3: Breath Strategies within Dynamic Movements and Function

Video 4: Breath Strategies to Prevent Over-Recruitment (i.e. common in female athletes)

Video 5: Breath Strategies for Pelvic Pain

Video 6: Breath Strategies Linked to Fitness Builds Brain Strategies and Automaticity

Read more and explore the clinical reasoning process here: Quick Question: How Should I Breathe When I Squat?

Course Audience:

Who is the intended audience? Anyone that treats, trains or is a fit female. This is a great entry point for ortho and sports medicine folks new to pelvic health, or pelvic health provider who need tools to help women back to fitness. This is the first of what I hope will be a series of accessible teaching vignettes, powwows, and chalk talks intended to address topics in pelvic, abdominal, orthopedic and performance health. The goal is to prevent formulaic thinking by discussing the evidence and clinical reasoning behind the intervention strategies I utilize with my fit female clients. Social media sound bites and a few blogs often lead to blanket edicts that become widely applied without depth of understanding. We must understand the research and reasoning behind the ideas, in order to know when, how, why and with whom to apply these ideas. It's critical.

Computer Compatibility Needs

This course is hosted on the teachable.com online streaming service designed to handle any system setup. So if you have a computer and an internet connection you should have access without issue. If you have issues with a slower bandwidth connection then you can change the video settings to a lower quality to help improve any loading issues.

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Your Instructor


Julie Wiebe, PT, DPT
Julie Wiebe, PT, DPT

Julie Wiebe, PT, DPT has over twenty-five years of clinical experience in Sports Medicine and Pelvic Health, specializing in abdominopelvic, pregnancy and postpartum health for fit and athletic populations. Her passion is to return active patients to fitness and sport after injury and pregnancy and equip professionals to do the same. She has pioneered an integrative approach to promote pelvic health in and through movement and fitness. These strategies have been successful incorporated by medical providers, rehab practitioners, and fitness professionals into a variety of populations (orthopedics, sports medicine, pelvic health, neurology, and pediatrics). Dr. Wiebe is a sought-after speaker delivering evidenced-based continuing education coursework, lectures, and curriculum at academic institutions, clinics, conferences, and professional organizations internationally. A published author, her research interests focus on the interplay of athleticism and pelvic health to inform screening tools and multifactorial intervention strategies. Julie provides direct cash-based care to fit and athletic populations through telehealth and her clinical practice.


Course Curriculum


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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
Can I share a course with a friend or colleague? How does the group discount work?
Each course purchase is for a single viewer only, and may not be shared. If you are interested in group/staff viewing, please contact admin at [email protected] to arrange a group discount code specifically for your group. The larger the group, the larger the discount. Each individual must purchase separately with the discount code, and agree to the terms and conditions (legal). This provides each participant with their own copy to review at their pace, in addition to the opportunity to interact with colleagues as you all work collectively through the material. Real time group online mentoring for Q and A is available with Julie to support your distance learning as you work through each module or after completing the course. Contact admin at [email protected] to set up a group discount and group mentoring.

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