The wilbarger brushing protocol is great! It's definitely made visible improvement on me.

I spent 10 weeks on it, was told when I started that most of her clients spend 8 weeks on it but she expected I'd spend longer on it. She judges end based on when the amount of improvement being made week to week isn't worth the effort going in.

It is a lot of effort; Brushing most of your body with a special brush and then doing joint compressions, every 2 hours that you are awake, is the basic idea of the protocol as I did it. However with this protocol you can permanently reduce reactivity to tactile inputs. And the brush and compress still helps after the protocol for short term feeling extra better. Dan describes it as sensory advil.

My OT actually went through with me and had me try on a bunch of clothing after we did the brushing protocol and I was able to wear most of what we had me try on! I'm still limited in what I can wear, but its definitely much easier to find clothing than it used to be. And we've drastically improved some aspects of washing as well. (I have lots and lots and lots and lots of issues with showers, my showers were being used as the baseline for comparing to for progress for lots of the work we were doing).


I'd definitely support the brushing protocol. Just be aware that its a lot of work.