CAT'S HUNCHED BACK

Myofunktional Exercise  Collection

Application:

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It is the tenor of this exercise to generate a catchphrase (also see MEMOS). The gaining of a muscular training effect is not intended but may be secondarily achieved. Mainly the catchword will be created, the mentioning of which is to recall a defined reaction within the patients mind: The physiological tongue posture projected by preceeding  aimed training has to be taken up automatically / unconsciously. Which means:

The tongue-tip sits down on to the incisal papilla, its favourite site or its “controlstand” and leans back to its  “back-rest”, the palate making the typical hunchback of a purring cat not sticking out its belly and keeping away from the sides by staying slender and avoiding to lean against the teeth. During the work-out the therapist has the opportunity  to recall before the patient inner eye a clearly defined image (priorly arranged) about the tongue posture desired by articulating the short admonition: “Cat’s Huchback”! without having to give further explanations every time. The phrase has operate like a starting shot.

Contents:

Catchphrase for a palatal –verted flection of the tongue body; fitting of the mental picture about this posture.

Materials:

If applicable, image, hand-mirror for demonstration, logo on a sign.

Procedure:

- Previous exercises: Precise and detailed instruction of the patient about the posture desired.

Depending on the scheme of the therapist there may precedingly within a special therapy  phase be created the corresponding neuromuscular frame to enable the patient to attain the position ( see also TONGUE-TIP-ORIENTATION. As a further possibility the therapist may demonstrate by material as models or picture what the command “Cat’s Huchback”! entails.

-Starting position: ,L’-POSITION

- Step-by-step-description:

-1 If the catchword falls, the trained posture is accepted. This may happen:

     a. after opening the mouth plainly

     b. out of the ,L-M’-POSITION with afterwards opening the mouth for the>

-2 checking of the correct tongue posture respectively for it correction.

-3 In the progress of the training sessions the patient controls himself, finally with the mouth closed.

-Timing: Accidentally, which means after one or several times having been instructed at first step 1 and 2 will be repeated unpreparedly at a random time, later on only step 3.

 The exercise is a single habituating measure and therefore is established mostly at the end of the general therapy plan.

Characteristics:

Motivation ( to self-monitoring), information, instruction, stereognosis, resting tone, habituation.

Remarks:

No muscle exercise but mental training! Mind the mental capability of the patient.

Discussion:

(See discussion above) The logo with the cat making its hunchback – projected on a side-view of the tongue – printed on playing card sized signs should be spread about the “biotope”, working place, bedside cabinet, mirror console etc.

Instructions: