Resources
Favorite Health Tools
Dr. Antler is passionate about sharing resources that can support you on your health journey. From ergonomic tools and sleep aids to mental health books and wellness products, she has curated a collection of her favorite items that she personally uses and recommends. These resources are designed to help you manage your physical and mental well-being more effectively, yet please confer with your medical team about the use of any recommended product prior to purchasing if you have any contraindications or concerns. Please note, some of these links are affiliate links, which means Antler Clinic may earn a small commission if you choose to purchase through them—at no extra cost to you.
BedJet3
Oura Ring
Red Light Therapy Wrap
Climate Comfort for Beds. Great for night sweats and temperature dysregulation
Great wearable that tracks sleep, body temp, cycle, activity, stress, and symptoms
Targeted cellular-healing, as well as potential pain and inflammation reduction
COVID-19:
Unfortunately, the COVID pandemic never ended. Covid is still spreading at high rates at multiple points most years. The good news is that we have a better understanding of the virus now than we did at the start and we have great tools to mitigate spread. The bad news is that through the more recent research, we’ve uncovered that COVID is not a harmless disease, and even if death isn’t a primary risk for most people, long COVID and other longer term symptoms and conditions are a substantial concern. Long COVID rates range from 1.7-77.7%. Risk of LC increases with each infection. COVID has been found to be a multisystemic neurovascular condition that has the potential and ability to damage almost if not all organs in the body, including the brain. Disabled and chronically ill people are unfortunately more likely to experience these effects and the on-going pandemic continues to disproportionately impact disabled and BIPOC communities.
Long COVID & ME/CFS:
What is Post-Exertional Malaise? via Johns Hopkins:
Pacing and Management Guide for ME/CFS via ME Action:
Long COVID Essentials resource sheet series by The Sick Times and Long COVID Justice:
Resources For TMJ:
Research has found that biofeedback is an appropriate and effective treatment for nighttime grinding (also known as bruxism) and that it is more effective than traditional night guards
Resources For Pain:
Vibrator
Red Light Therapy Wrap
Resonant Breathing App
Great product backed by research for any type of pain and a distraction for your nervous system
Fringe produces high quality photobiomodulation devices. Dr. Antler loves their red light wrap for joint pain and cramps:
Research supports setting it to 4 seconds in breath, 6 seconds out, with no pauses - diaphragmatic breathing
Tracking your pain and communicating it to your providers can be very challenging, yet this pain scale from the VA is better than most and might be helpful as you try to figure out how to determine how bad your pain is and to track how it changes over time:
How does your brain respond to pain - TED:
Cozy Games:
Engaging your brain can be a great way to help with pain, yet when you are in pain it is very hard to focus and watching TV or listening to something just doesn't do the trick. Research suggests that the trick to using distraction for pain relief is to make that distraction engaging enough to take your mind off of the pain experience. This means that something like a simple video game that is challenging enough to keep you engaged, but easy enough not to stress you out, can be a great way to keep your mind off of the pain and on something you enjoy. Enter: cozy games. These are games that are often beautiful, with good story lines and pretty graphics, that are relatively simple to play yet still immersive and engaging. They can help you to take your mind off of the pain while keeping you more engaged than a TV show and thus distracting your nervous system, even just for a little while, giving you a bit of a break.
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