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WHAT IS A SENSORY HUGGING PEAPOD?
Do you have or are you familiar with a child who has concentration issues, autism, ADHD, frequent outbursts or tantrums, or difficulty sleeping?
The Pea Pod is like a huge hug, applying pressure all over the body, helping to keep your child calm and relaxed. You can use the peapod to create a time-out space in your home, school, or clinic at any time during the day. Whenever your child needs some time-out or that necessary pressure input, you can place them in their Pea Pod and watch them unwind.
The Pea Pod for autism applies much-needed pressure to sensitive areas of the body, helping your child feel anchored and in control. This snug canoe is ideal for autism. It kindles a sense of adventure while the compression provides a soothing comfort where your child can feel secure. Use this sensory processing disorder tool to add comfort and joy to your child’s life.
This toy provides deep touch pressure (DTP) in the form of firm tactile sensory input or proprioceptive input to the entire body. When applied to the whole body, this therapy (DTP) has a calming, organizing effect on both children and adults.

DEEP PRESSURE THERAPY
With its increasing popularity over the past few years, people are wondering why weighted blankets are so soothing.
The reason is deep pressure touch stimulation.
But, before we explore what deep touch pressure (DTP) is, it’s essential to start with our body’s sensory system to understand why DTP is an important and useful therapy to consider.
Sensory Integration is the process that your central nervous system undergoes when it takes in information from the environment and your body’s eight senses, processes that information, and then responds accordingly.
Your body takes in information through 8 sensory systems:
auditory (sound/hearing)
visual (sight)
olfactory (smell)
gustatory (taste)
tactile (touch)
vestibular (movement)
proprioceptive (input from muscles and joints)
interoception (internal sensors indicating physiological conditions)
When one’s central nervous system has difficulty processing any of this sensory information, the body’s responses are atypical and can be seen in motor, language, or social-emotional difficulties.
Deep pressure or deep touch pressure therapy (DTP) is firm tactile sensory input that provides proprioceptive input to the whole body. This can consist of firm hugs, firm stroking, cuddling, hugging, squeezing, compression, or swaddling. When applied to the whole body, deep touch pressure therapy (DTP) has a calming, organizing effect on both children and adults.

PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO DEEP PRESSURE THERAPY
When considering your body’s physiological responses to sensory information and your own emotional reactions, you need to take into account the three different parts of your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and how those systems work together to help you function.
The autonomic nervous system is responsible for receiving information from your body and environment and sending signals out to regulate the functions of many of your body’s organs in response to that information. Think about the last time you were nervous – sweaty palms, a racing heartbeat, fast breathing, and perhaps even an upset stomach.
On the other hand, think about how you relax every night as you drift off to sleep – slow, deep breathing, a slow heartbeat, relaxed muscles. All of those physiological responses come from your functioning autonomic nervous system (ANS).
The ANS consists of the parasympathetic, sympathetic, and enteric (gut) systems. Depending on the sensory information your ANS is processing, these systems work together to help you physiologically respond.
The two main systems that we are concerned with for DTP are the parasympathetic system and the sympathetic system.

THE PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
The parasympathetic system of your autonomic nervous system is responsible for regulating involuntary functions such as heart rate and blood pressure, and stimulating the digestive tract. Deep touch pressure increases this parasympathetic activity and helps slow many high-energy functions of the body, thereby aiding in regulation.

THE SYMPATHETIC SYSTEM
The sympathetic nervous system of your autonomic nervous system is often referred to as the “fight or flight” response that is triggered during stressful or emergency situations. Think of the adrenaline rush you experience when you’re in an accident or encounter a dangerous situation. That is your sympathetic ANS at work!
Deep touch pressure decreases this “fight or flight” sympathetic activity and reduces the level of cortisol (stress hormone), which is extremely impactful for people who experience stress, anxiety, or fear regularly (anxiety, PTSD, dementia, ASD).

OBSERVABLE EFFECTS OF DEEP PRESSURE THERAPY
The functional outcomes of deep pressure therapy are observed as follows:
Enhanced proprioceptive processing for improved balance.
Enhanced body/spatial awareness.
Improved coordination.
Better sleep.
Increased focus/attention.
Reduced anxiety/stress.

Overall, people reported feeling more “grounded” after deep pressure input. For people who are hypersensitive to tactile input, desensitization to touch was reported over time.