You could brush your teeth for 28 minutes every Sunday, but would you? It may be more efficient to perform this task in one sitting, but rather we do it every day to continue the cycle of taking care of ourselves. It’s a daily task that has compounding benefits to our overall well-being and health.

This same ideology can be applied to nervous system hygiene, keeping our nervous system healthy on a daily basis, so we can manage the highs and lows of our day-to-day lives.  

In this episode, Dr. Burriesci welcomes Jessica Patching-Bunch, JPB, to discuss a missing piece in regulating the autonomic nervous system: nervous system hygiene. JPB explains what nervous system hygiene means, what that can look like, how much time it actually takes out of our daily lives to perform, and the importance of this topic. Dr. Burriesci links how this can impact physical therapy students, clinicians, and our patients when we begin to incorporate the daily task of nervous system hygiene.

In this Episode:

• Breakdown of the autonomic nervous system (ANS)
• The power of breath to tap into ANS control
• Defining nervous system hygiene
• Utilizing nervous system hygiene to regulate the ANS
• The importance of small compounding efforts in our daily practice
• The simple yet complex benefits of breath control

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