Advanced Principles of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy for the Sleep Disordered Breathing Patient

This is an online-only course

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This advanceD course builds on key learnings from the four-day foundation course, and further develops skills and therapy techniques to treat the sleep disordered breathing patient.

Course content covers both children and adult patients

Course Overview

The aetiology of sleep disordered breathing is multifactorial. The muscles play an important role in the disorder, however treatment of them is often over-looked.

Current literature demonstrates that orofacial myofunctional therapy decreases Apnoea-Hypopnea Index (AHI) in both adults and children. Oxygen saturation and snoring improve in adults. Orofacial myofunctional therapy plays an important adjunctive role in multidisciplinary approach to treat sleep-disordered breathing.

Learning Outcomes

  • List the 8 most common sleep disorders (there are 96 diagnosable sleep disorders)

  • Recognise the difference between adult and children’s OSA scores

  • Discuss sleep fragmentation

  • Identify signs and symptoms of sleep disordered breathing

  • List the pre-natal pathogenesis of SDB and early infancy predisposition

  • Know paediatric and adult screening questionnaires available

  • Know current recommendations for diagnosing SDB in children and adults

  • Identify the common signs and symptoms of ADHD and SDB

  • Treatment available for the treatment of SDB in both children and adult

  • Cover current literature on Orofacial myofunctional therapy as adjunctive treatment in the SDB patient including CPAP users

  • Evaluate muscle function

  • Learn orofacial myofunctional therapy techniques for the SDB patient