Massage These Points To Help Heal The Vagus Nerve with Dr. Perry Nickelston

but I really want people to remember just how far that connection goes because the the pathway from the vagus nerve you know has to exit the skull and it exits the skull through an opening that's called a foramen Freeman just means fancy word and medicine for opening or whole and it's called your jugular foramen and it travels down from there out of the same hole with a couple of other nerves and a big bang called your internal drug intervene right and that drains the toxins the metabolic waste from your your brain then it comes down the side of your neck and it enters the the Torso right at the collarbone so you have a right one and a left one and it comes down and that's why a lot of people who have excess tightness or attention above the collarbone with tight traps or they don't have very good breathing patterns and they're really tight at the at the Peck and the chest they can uh irritate that nerve the blood flow around that region and have vagus nerve issues then it comes down and wraps around your esophagus that travels behind your sternum and then it exits right at the stomach where these the esophagus drops into the stomach and then it wraps all around the stomach right by the diaphragm and then from there it spiders it off to the organs you know goes to the right side and goes towards the left side and uh there's places where that what I teach and what I find in people is that the nerve is very vulnerable at certain spaces through these openings and through these changes where the nerve enters different body cavities so the big places where the nerve can have an issue from tightness or tension in the body um it could be you have soft tissue tightness muscle tightness fascial tightness which is the connective tissue of the body or maybe joints that get stuck and don't move as well as they could from lifestyle habits but one is that as it exits right at the skull so right at the top where the skull joins the cervical spine is one of the biggest places that that nerve gets an issue all right and we'll talk about how you can help that later um and uh another one is going to be actually right at the top of the neck behind the angle of the jaw and what they call a cervical one that's where the largest lymph node in the neck sits and we talked about that in the prior so that's number two number three is at the collarbone above the collarbone excuse me this is that's number three and then number four is right at the bottom of the sternum right as it enters into the stomach at the top of your abdomen so those four places the biggest nerve can get twisted turned kinked poor blood flow and it chokes off the tone in either one of those places and I'm going to tell you now if you look at the average posture that a human being assumes today you choke off all four of those places for hours and hours and hours on end right and then you get a vagus nerve problem wow okay and would that be as if you've with sort of the work that you do Perry sort of palpating those areas because of what you said earlier of lack of oxygenation nourishment creating yes I'm assuming they're going to be very tender points yeah absolutely and you know you could do a lot of work with the Vegas serve just from manual work on yourself because you can take care of these places on your own or for someone else because you know we talked a little bit before but tight tissue influences how well uh things move right because if things are really really tight you're not going to get a lot of movement in it right so tightness and tension is a protective strategy of your nervous system to protect you all right but it also chokes off the fluid flow of the body and that's that is arteries and veins and then um the cerebrospinal fluid which is the fluid that coats around the brain and around the spinal cord and your lymphatic fluid all right and those affect how nerves function because tight tissue nerves need to slide and glide in between tissues so you don't want nerves to be stuck in a tissue and you don't want them to be compressed from tightness and tension because nerves don't like direct pressure they like to slide and glide and move that's why Technics they teach in physical therapy called nerve Glides gliding a nerve helps you feel so much better right and nerves are really freaking long and they're all interconnected but when you have excess tightness and tension you tighten tissue but you decrease the flow of blood to a nerve you decrease the waste of from the nerve and you decrease the fluid how the fluid moves around the nerve and you starve the nerve and from what well oxygen and nutrients and when nerves begin to die they become really really super sensitive and they start to tell you that they're not happy by you usually getting tingling and numbness or pins and needles the first thing I think with tingling a numbness of pins and needles is poor blood flow and Suffocation from somewhere and you got to find it and why is that relate to the vagus nerve well the vagus nerve has its own blood flow and vein flow and lymph flow all around it so it can be affected but you have all this excess stress from the sympathetic nervous system being all on all the time or what they call sympathetic dominance or sympathetic hyper vigilance which means that dude I'm not resting at all because if I rest I'm dead and then guess what happens when you're in that state you over breathe you hold your breath you get excess tightness and tension and then you feed the dragon so the baby dragon becomes a big giant one over time and a lot of times uh just doing some of the simple vagal nerve stuff that we can go over later like gargling and singing and cold and stuff like that is not enough because you need to go directly after some of these areas where the tension and tightness is so intense that you have to release it right so that's why one of the reasons is very very simple is that I tell people you always rub the back of your skull and back of your head and massage it because who doesn't like that first of all and who doesn't have pain there everybody does and it just so happens that's also you're choking off the major blood flow to your brain through the vertebral arteries when you're tied back there so you choke off your brain flow right so you rub there and then people say for how long and how deep and how often here's my answer yes which means just get in there and play and explore feel first think second and if it hurts to press in there stop pressing so hard and lighten it up then you rub along the side of the neck right behind the angle of the jaw right below the ear at the largest lymph node in the neck where it gets really really super tight so you free up choke point number two then you rub above and below the collarbone where it gets really really tight and I'll give you a super duper cool extra one here massaging directly underneath your collarbone your clavicle you free up a muscle they're called your subclavius sub means blow clavius is for clavicle when that muscle gets super tight it'll clamp down on your vagus nerve like there's no tomorrow so that's why you always want to rub underneath the Cotter bone rather aggressively and trust me it's gonna hurt that's because that means you need it all right and then that's spot number three and then spot number four is where if you go all the way if you if you follow your sternum all the way down and you get to the bottom eventually you're going to be off bone and you're going to be right at the top of your abdominal muscle card your rectus abdominis right and then there is a spot where your rib cage kind of changes angles right like at the bottom and then it kind of angles down like an umbrella just rub all up underneath at the top of your abdominal muscle more so to your left hand side but I want you to do both but more on the left hand side because that's the side where the stomach is and that's where the esophagus drops down and that's probably the number one spot where people get a lot of tightness and tension and you do that and you you do it at all four so if you do massage the back of your head massage that part of the neck behind the angle of the jaw massage the collarbone and massage down there and then you do some of the stuff that we're going to tell you later you're gonna have a completely different response and you're going to feel super good

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Length: 9min 42sec (582 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 06 2023