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Self-Evaluation of Breathing Questionnaire
The questions here were drawn from descriptions in scientific and popular literature of respiratory symptoms and breathing behaviors proposed to be associated with problematic breathing, and pulled together by Dr. Rosalba Courtney and Dr. Ken Greenwood in Australia. Research to establish normative values has not been published, but Dr. Courtney wrote in Recognizing and Treating Breathing Disorders 2nd Edition that a score of 11 or higher correlated with respiratory dysfunction.
Courtney, R., Greenwood, K.M., 2009. Preliminary investigation of a measure of dysfunctional breathing symptoms, the Self Evaluation of Breathing Questionnaire (SEBQ). International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine 12, 121-127
Breathing Retraining Center offers individual and group training and coaching on self-management techniques to identify and correct poor-breathing habits. Breathing Retraining Center's educational products, courses and coaching are designed to improve breathing skills for people whose issues may be related to habits that have the potential to be improved, as a self-care/wellness activity. Breathing difficulty may be a warning sign of a life-treatening heart or lung condition, infection or other illness. Always check with your doctor about your own situation.
The Buteyko Breathing Technique and other breathing-retraining strategies we teach are an alternative approach and are not the practice of medicine, psychology or a form of psychotherapy, nor are they a substitute for seeking medical or psychological advice from an apporpriate professional health-care provider. We want to make the important distinction between using the Buteyko Breathing Technique and other breathing-retraining strategies for health and well-being and the practice of medicine, psychology or any other licensed health-care profession.
Breathing classes, coaching and other services from Breathing Retraining Center are offered by teachers who are not licensed by the State of California as physicians or other healing-arts practitioners unless so noted. We offer alternative non-medical/non-psychological techniques and our services are considered to be laternative or complementary to the healing arts that are licensed by the State of California.