Good evening, everybody. I’m Dr. Sarvar Pathan and I have Dr Jane Bowser. We’re back with this COVID-19 Health series, and we want to talk about some stress relief techniques.
These are unusual times, when you are having to put on mask, hold your breath when someone’s walking passing by, you’re in stress positions and stress movements causing clenching of the teeth. All of that results in discomfort and may cause headache may cause tightness in the upper neck area. You might be wondering where all this is coming from.
Most often than not, you will notice that this clenching of the teeth results in that tightness and and causes you to have tightness in the master and that grinding sensation. So I want to walk you through two specific exercises that you can do for your jaw.
- The first one is the opening of the jaw. You put your fist right under your chin like Jane did, and you slowly open the jaw against the resistance of your hands. And you’re holding, you’re sort of fighting against that jaw holding for five seconds, and then you slowly letting it go. And you do repeat that for about two or three repetitions. You hold it against your hand for a total of about five seconds. Do this as many times as you need during the day.
2. The other one, when we clench our teeth, we have a tendency to bring the jaw backwards. So it was really clenching, and then that kind of creates a master activation. You want to protrack your jaw to help release that and so you have the fist right in front of the chin, and you pushing the lower part of the jaw forward and holding there for about five seconds, and then letting it go. And yeah, if you don’t mind for the side views, so you’re just pushing the jaw forward, holding that fist and then bringing your back perfect. And Dr Jane Bowser has a breathing technique that she’s going to walk you through.
3. Also, there is this one breathing technique is called 478 breathing. And so what you’re going to do is you’re going to breathe in dogmatically so into your belly not into your chest for accounted for. You’re going to hold it for account seven, then you’re going to breathe out for a count of eight through pursed lips. Okay, through your mouth. So let’s give it a go. Sure. Okay,
Count for me! All right. All right, yeah. In 234, hold 234567, out 12345678.
And you can do that two to four times in this in this sequence, and do that once or twice a day. And that should help relieve some stress too.
Absolutely. And so thank you again, and thanks for watching everybody with this COVID-19 Health series and we’ll be back. All right. Take care.