182: Assessing And Treating Dysautonomia In Neuro Clients With Jennifer Lazaro, PT, DPT, NCS

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