Chaitow's Breathing Pattern Disorders
A Multidisciplinary Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management
- 3rd Edition - June 11, 2026
- Latest edition
- Authors: Christopher Gilbert, Tania Clifton-Smith, Rosalba Courtney, Sasha Chaitow
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 2 5 7 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 2 5 8 - 0
Discover how to recognise, assess, and address Breathing Pattern Disorders and Dysfunctional Breathing (BPD/DB) with this fully updated third edition. Designed for practi… Read more
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Discover how to recognise, assess, and address Breathing Pattern Disorders and Dysfunctional Breathing (BPD/DB) with this fully updated third edition. Designed for practitioners, Chaitow’s Breathing Pattern Disorders is a comprehensive guide with evidence-based strategies and protocols to restore optimal breathing function. Reorganised for clarity, it features dedicated sections on multidisciplinary assessment, effective treatment strategies, and practical self-help resources.
Series editor Sasha Chaitow, PhD, brings together an international team of experts including lead authors Tania Clifton-Smith, PT, Rosalba Courtney, PhD, and Christopher Gilbert, PhD, with new contributions enhancing the bestselling second edition. Accompanied by 25 instructional videos featuring Dr. Leon Chaitow demonstrating key techniques, this book is an essential resource for clinical practice.
Unique in its focus and scope, this edition clarifies BPD/DB terminology, integrates the latest research, and explores the physiological, psychological, structural, and biochemical factors implicated in BPD/DB. Guiding the practitioner in a range of clinical settings, it includes practical techniques and tips—many from an international perspective—to support normal functionality.
Series editor Sasha Chaitow, PhD, brings together an international team of experts including lead authors Tania Clifton-Smith, PT, Rosalba Courtney, PhD, and Christopher Gilbert, PhD, with new contributions enhancing the bestselling second edition. Accompanied by 25 instructional videos featuring Dr. Leon Chaitow demonstrating key techniques, this book is an essential resource for clinical practice.
Unique in its focus and scope, this edition clarifies BPD/DB terminology, integrates the latest research, and explores the physiological, psychological, structural, and biochemical factors implicated in BPD/DB. Guiding the practitioner in a range of clinical settings, it includes practical techniques and tips—many from an international perspective—to support normal functionality.
- Restructured content with a robust evidence base, multidisciplinary assessment, and therapeutic protocols
- Clear definitions of breathing pattern disorders/dysfunctional breathing
- 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
Primary care/general practice physicians, respiratory therapists, physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, pulmonologists, sports physicians
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
3. Patterns of breathing dysfunction in hyperventilation and breathing pattern disorders
Dinah Bradley
4. 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
- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: June 11, 2026
- Language: English
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Christopher Gilbert
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Social Sciences and Human Services Department, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, New Jersey, USATC
Tania Clifton-Smith
Affiliations and expertise
Dip.Phys. MNZSP NZRP NZMTA ITEC (Lon)