UPPER LIP STRETCHING

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Myofunktional Exercise  Collection

Application:

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Short description of the main application range, field or possibility.

Contents:

This is a muscular auto-stretch exercise for the radially directed muscle tracks by straining 0of the central Orbicularis fibres.

Materials:

Procedure:

- Previous exercises: Instructions about the mouth posture (,M’-POSITION).

-Starting position: Not specially defined,

- Step-by-step-description:

-1 The lower lip is held in stand-by tone at the lower front teeth with its top edge on even level with the incisor edges of the lower front teeth.

-2 The upper lip pushes itself down the front surface of the upper incisor as far as possible under effort while the mandible sinks down, the end position counting.

-3 followed by a break or BABBLE as limbering-up exercise. Next the repetition.

Timing: Maintenance of the end position while counting to ten maximally thirty, repetition of the sequence increasingly five to fifteen times.

Characteristics:

Stretching, gross motor function, hold exercise.

Remarks:

In the course of the run a curling-in of the upper lip brim on or behind the edges of the upper teeth seems unavoidable which enhances the danger of a re- or intrusion of these teeth. (Training in occlusion or intercuspidation position is less effective) it is worth considering to put a thin plastic disk like a vestibulum plate between front teeth and lips to avoid this undesirable side effect.

Discussion:

The said negative side effect should especially be taken in account in case of a negative overbite, the “Open Bite” as the tooth position will be aggravate.

In this case it may be considered to maintain the intercuspidation position while practicing.

As a substitute might serve HOLD-THE STRAW or PLATELET-HOLDER  whereas the latter additionally has a stronger invigorating effect.

In the case of an inability for lip closure both exercises

can be applied in a way, that, in the beginning, the items are caught firstly in vicinity to the mouth corners, there, where a gripping is just enough to hold them. During the training the sides are changed, left, the right…. .

In the course of the training the item is shifted more and more to the middle line.

While these exercises are mostly carried out at fixed training times the here discussed one can be fitted in whenever there is time , as no equipment is afforded ( so just these “can be fitted in whenever there is time” exercises are the most effective for the especially committed patient.

Instructions:

It’s time for the mouth to be shut.

That this was not working did have plenty drawbacks!

And, as the upper lip is to blame, it will have to do the work. It creeps down the teeth, further and further; as far as possible and as often as possible during the day.

The lowest position it can reach it will have to keep while counting to ten.

After some days it will get further and further and then, soon, the mouth will get shut and stay shut.

Later on we might find out some new exercises, for the time being do the exercise as often as possible.