EASY SWOLLOW

Myofunktional Exercise  Collection

Application:

No Illustration

Leading over from the swallow training to the weekday’s routine.

Final corrections in the muscular environment of the orofacial system. (Anatomy: 1,3,6,  Page 25a).

Contents:

Cutback of nonphysiological simultaneously to the swallow reflex circuit (faulty synreflexia) happening muscle actions within the orofacial musculature (as the grimacing swallow).

Materials:

Visual monitoring, hand-mirror, video clip.

Procedure:

- Previous exercises: All activities for the accustomizing (and habituating) of the swallow reflex.

-Starting position: Not obligatory, recommendable BASIC-POSITION.

- Step-by-step-description:
-1 After having been properly instructed the patient prepares for every meal to swallow the first (for example) ten bites or mouthful consciously while watching to deactivate or exclude all “unnecessary” (previously during the session detected or self-observed) motions of his face musculature occurring independently and nonphysiologically (grimacing) by slacken off.

-Timing: The timetable is preset through the daily meals and the frequency by the arranging of the number of swallows observed.

Characteristics:

Habituation, motivation for self-monitoring, aftercare.

Remarks:

In several cases the disorder to treat is no regrettable occurrence but a tendency of the patient to develop and habituate dysfunctions. The discussed exercise is shaped to make provisions for the patient to learn to observe falling into a new slip-up.

Discussion:

The exercise will always then be necessary when, in the general therapy course, every detail step of the swallow reflex has been studied and is “on call” positioning it towards the end of therapy into the time window of habituation. The exercise may be set before the EAT-(AND DRINK-)EXERCISE, simultaneously or even instead of the application. The above described fact of a tendency for dysfunctions should be explained properly to the patient. To do this it may be helpful for the patient if a sort of mental concentration exercise was recommended to be studied. The Patient never should assume that, with a successful completion of therapy all problems would be solved for him for always and ever.