SOAP BUBBLES

Myofunktional Exercise  Collection

Application:

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The exercise offers various action possibilities:
Training of the closure of the oral cavity against the pharynx by the velum.
Work-out of the nose breathing. (Anatomy: 1.3, Areal III: )

Diaphragma Oris musculature and Velum Palatinum

Lip closure training. (Anatomy: 1.1.2, page 12)
Fine motor exercise for mouth floor. (Anatomy: page 26)

Contents:

GAME EXERCISE with a high degree fine-motor coordinative quality.

Materials:

Drinking straw.

Procedure:

- Previous exercises: A this exercise embodies a fine-motor functional coordination exercise the actual muscle exercises should have been performed before. A direct prior exercise might be the WATERPUMP.

-Starting position: Not defined – see sequence description.

- Step-by-step-description:

-1 The straw is dipped into a soap solution or a special liquid for bubbles available in toy shops. The other end is held between the lips.

-2 (etc., single step description)

-Timing (Necessary instructions fort a schedule with

  frequency of repetition or lasting of a movement or

  position etc. During the whole time of practicing the one end of the tube in the mouth is not kept shut by the tongue!

-2 A bubble of about plumb-size is created with the sensitive use of the air pressure coming out of the lungs.

-3 The next step is switching over to nose breathing while the bubble should keep its present size.

-4 In an increase of the exercise, now, the size of the bubble is changed, under continuation of the nose breathing,  first reduced by a careful lowering of the mouth floor

-5 then enlargedby narrowing the oral cavity.

- Timing: Till step 3 the sequence might be seen as a pre-exercise. If this sequence of steps has been mastered it is followed by a swift passing on to step 4 and 5. These two steps, enlarging and reducing, are repeated several times. the whole action fashions one longer sequence which is calculated in its length through the permanence of the bubble. Several sequences may be put together to form a series.

Characteristics:

GAME-EXERCISE, motivation, kinesthetic, coordination, fine-motor; till step 3 static, steps 4 and 5 kinetic, eutonization.

Remarks:

This exercise should only be used under the provision that the patient does not tend to aspirating.

Discussion:

The exercise requests a well trained neuromotor coordination and therefore should be applied rather later in the entire training plan as, for example, in the phase of  coordination (see scheme: Course concept, basic rules, page 0002). Through its way of application at this phase it has a quite high schooling value. As it does not integrate the swallow act as, for example, the exercise PIPELINE and is therefore specifically suitable for the work-out of “Balloon-cover” of the outer orofacial musculature and the oral diaphragm

(Suprahyoid- and extrinsic tongue muscles). In contrast to the BALLOON exercise this one is rather fine-motor-coordinative.

To form an INCREASE-ARRANGEMENT the planning in the kind of the UNIT-CONSTRUCTION-SYSTEM would lead the following steps:

BALLOON  

BLOW THE  STRAW

PEA-SHOOTER

STRAW SUCKING

WATER PUMP

SOAPBUBBLES

Instructions:

This exercise makes much pleasure and is training the throat muscles. You should, however, be able to do the BALLOON   or even the BLOW THE  STRAW

for it is getting tough now.

Take a drinking straw into your mouth and dip the other end into a solution for making soap bubbles.

Now your lung blows up a beautiful bubble which is now sitting on the end of the straw. Now you can play with it as long until it explodes – and the, quick, make a new one.

At first it just keeps hanging there at the end of the straw while you are practicing a regular nose-breathing. Do not shut the straw in the mouth tight with your tongue! The mouth must be kept shut back in the throat.

Now make the mouth hole bigger in the inside, just, as if you want to suck the bubble in: it gets smaller.

When you, instead, make the mouth hole smaller pressing the cheeks together, the bubble will grow again.

Meanwhile you will breathe on through your nose.

This is a funny way to play with a bubble as long as it joins in the game.