M1 : Lesson 7.7: POTS
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Hospital Orthodontic tachycardia syndrome, also known as pots, and dysautonomia. Potts is a form of dysautonomia characterized by an abnormally fast heart rate upon standing that causes many other commonly occurring symptoms Pots can present in several ways and is where problems occur in various involuntary body processes of the autonomic nervous system. Symptoms of pots include but are not limited to light headedness, occasionally with fainting, difficulty thinking and concentrating, just brain fog, fatigue, intolerance of exercise, headache, blurry vision, heart palpitations, blood pressure irregularities, tremor, and nausea. Pause is highly related to issues I presented earlier in the video of cell danger response and therefore likely due to an excessive stress signaling in the nervous system. There are multiple causes and presentations of paths, but ultimately it’s a dysregulation of the constriction of the blood vessels especially of the limbs and abdomen.
Abnormal activation of the vagus nerve can result in a sudden stimulation of what’s known as the bagel bagel reflex, which causes a sudden drop in blood pressure, and that can be a contributing factor as well. Other common triggers in addition to postural positions or movement that exacerbate pots include being in crowds over stimulation. Heat, food, intense emotions, and even perfectionism. Regulating your stress response has been shown to have promising outcomes for those dealing with pots. In other words, you can help rewire the way your vascular tension and relaxation patterns operate through decreasing limbic system overactivation, finding balance in the autonomic nervous system, and improving your exercise tolerance.
So despite being given a medication that should help this, but it’s not curable diagnosis, I have seen dramatic reduction in even complete reversal of this condition With the movement strategies and stress reduction strategies that I’ll be teaching, I personally dealt with this issue for years. In fact, pots was my very first symptom of a chronic stress response when I was about 25. Although, I didn’t know it was pots at the time and often goes undiagnosed, It is treatable, and I was eventually able to rewire using a combination of brain retraining and movement therapy. I found that when I was able to feel safer and tolerate more and more somatic movement, especially restoring what I call somatic pumping mechanisms that I’ll discuss in the somatics module 5, I started to regain more regulation in my autonomic nervous system. Specifically building leg strength and regulating my emotions in various conditions were key aspects to improving my capacity for movement.
3:04This is the end of the section where I’m speaking of specific manifestations of chronic stress. And again, if your condition wasn’t listed, it doesn’t mean that you won’t benefit. I’m just going over the most common conditions that I see. In the next lesson, we’re gonna learn our very first tool and probably one of the most important ones you can do from this point forward.