Name: Manual Treatment of the Vagus Nerve
Start: 2025-04-11T09:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-04-12T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Myotherapy Massage College

The Vagus nerves (cranial nerve X, left and right) serve as primary
components of the parasympathetic nervous system, regulating essential bodily functions such as mood, immune response, digestion, and heart rate.
These nerves form a critical link between the brain and the gastrointestinal tract, transmitting information about internal organ states via afferent fibers and responding to input from the hypothalamus. The Vagus nerve also controls involuntary processes in the heart, lungs, digestive and immune systems.
The Vagus nerves are capable of learning. This ability to learn can be both advantageous and detrimental. Patients and clinicians alike are not often aware of what the Vagus nerves are learning as evidenced by the mixed results from the use of vagal stimulation devices.
This manual therapy course will be focused on understanding where the Vagi nerves travel, how they report information back to the brain, how they change motor outputs of the various organs, and how these changes alter function. There will be a discussion and exploration lab to learn how to discover what inputs are training the vagus nerves so that interventions both manual and from a vagal stimulator will be clinically useful to the patient.