Variations of brushing? Brushing increased hyper/meltdowns

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Hi,

7yo ds recently resumed brushing+joint compression after almost 5 years of

abstinence from brushing. We resumed this because about 2-3 months back

he developed this frequent touching/covering of his lip area using his palm

&

an OT suggested that we do brushing+joint compression.

His hyper increased & he cried/throw his tantrums easily at the slightest

provocation after we resumed the brushing for about 3 days. The OT wanted

us to brush him with medium pressure at a brisk pace. For the last 2 weeks,

he has waken up on 3 nights laughing. When asked to do TEACCH tasks or

piano lesson, there's frequent meltdowns & sometimes he will cry for no

apparent reason. The rapid touching/covering of the lips using his palm has

changed to covering of lips with sniffing (less rapid). He is beginning to

mouth toys objects again - which we last saw about 3.5 years ago.

So with the brushing, more autistic traits are showing up. Thing is I

recall

2 other OTs suggested slow-movement deep-pressure brushing but this

current OT is practising it otherwise.

An OT once told me there's various versions of brushing+joint compression

- anyone care to share the various versions or if there's only one version,

the correct version.

Thanks

G