Dr. Jennifer Lazaro, PT, DPT, NCS is back on the show today! She is an instructor inside NeuroSpark and the mentor who leads Office Hours for our members. She has a special interest in treating people with autonomic, postural, breathing dysfunction, which are really challenging aspects of care to address. We invited her to come on the show to explain what to look for and what to do!
In the show we discuss this and more:
What are the basics of the parasympathetic nervous system and what does it look like to be dysregulated
What is dysautonomia
Common conditions that include autonomic dysfunction: POTS, Covid, post-concussion and brain injury, PD, MS are a few
What are the ways to assess the autonomic nervous system and build it into your functional goals and outcome measures
What are treatment ideas for someone with dysautonomia
Should Erin do cold therapy?
Helpful resource:
Exercise and Non-Pharmalogical Treatment of POTS by Qi Fu and Benjamin D Levine Auton Neurosci 2018
