CROOKED GRIN

Myofunktional Exercise  Collection

Application:

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The concept of this exercise mainly is a UNILATERAL EXERCISE for one-sided loss or deficits in the Orofacial motor function; it is training here the wheel-spoke fibre tracks of the Orbicularis, the lifters (mouth-corner levators, Anatomy[ 006]).

Contents:

With this function kinetic exercise mainly the mimic will be trained.

Materials:

Facultatively a small cocktail stick or match.

Procedure:

- Previous exercises: In a preliminary training phase the exercise may facultatively be manipulated, i.e., with the aid of the hands (one finger). The finger pushes the texture in the direction desired. During the course of the training the procedure will be more and more brought into line with the actual procedure. As a general pre-exercise the work-out of the starting-position is recommendable.

-Starting position: ,L-M’-POSITION –

Step-by-step-description:

-1 At the start under hand-mirror control the exercise is carried out with the unharmed side or in the above described way. The mouth-corner is lifted up with maximum force (with complicated cases at first the eye on the exercising side may be squeezed shut also).

-2 During a relaxing break the texture may be massaged downwards.

-3 Now the harmed side is treated the same way.

 -Timing: It is recommendable to strain and loosen alternatively. This is forming a training frequency approximately in a beat of one second which will fill (by counting out to a given number) one sequence.

Furthermore in the frequency tact the training may be done alternatively on the right and left side: “Left and one and right and one – and left and two and right and two ….. and so on.

Several sequences will, then, be coupled to a series.

For atone increase the carry-out is conceivable in the static (hold-) mode; the exercise, however, rather aims on motility which means a kinetic carry-out.

Characteristics:

Kinaesthesia, visual feed-back, coordination, more crude motoric, kinesis, motility, mobility, (manipulation).

Remarks:

With neuro-motor problems the movement control might be managed as described afterwards.

Discussion:

As this exercise is designed for rehabilitation motivation might be requested in the initial phase. This requires a procedure as, for example, described in the exercise CONDUCTOR. A match is clamped into the mouth-corner of the problem side to visually watch and intensify its initially bare minimum motions. In the manner of an  INCREASE-ARRANGEMENT this mentioned exercise CONDUCTOR is very useful.

Instructions:

Now the cheek muscles around the mouth-corner are exercising. The starting position is the same as with the ,M’ – the lips are put upon each other lightly shut.

Now the mouth-corner is pulled up with the utmost strength backwards and upwards – grin!

At the beginning you may also squeeze shut the eye lid on the same side or help with your index finger to push the mouth-corner in the intended direction so that it, really, becomes a crooked grin. Hold this position far out there, then, return to the start position. Now it is up to the mouth-corner of the other side.  Once left, once right and every time count out up to the appointed number, this makes one exercise turn.

And this will be repeated.

If it is to difficult in the beginning to see a faintest movement clamp a match into the mouth-corner to indicate each moving.