,GIDDY-UP'

Myofunktional Exercise  Collection

Application:

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The exercise will train the motility and tactile-kinaesthetic orientation in cases of uncontrolled actions of the lateral tongue margin presumably for the middle and back tongue third, (Anatomy: Area IIA, Page 18).

Contents:

In the first stage (A) with a guiding manipulation, in the second solely function orientated the exercise mediates a kinetic coordination.

Materials:

Drinking straw [for stage (A)], pipette / wash bottle, liquid.

Procedure:

(A)

A variation which simultaneously effects the palatal orientation of the rostral tongue portions includes the ,RAILING’ in its work-out steps.

- Previous exercises: Generally the training phase fort he first tongue third should be completed. Especially suitable are the exercises TONGUE-PLOP, ,ZIP’-EXERCISE, and RAILING and in the first place SLURP-AND-WALLOW, as the latter is equally involving the lateral sucking.

-Starting position: The posture from exercise RAILING is taken up.

- Step-by-step-Description:

-1 in a changeover between both cheeks a small quantity of water is squirted into the cheek pockets.

-2 With lips-open at first only on one side, later on with both side rims of the tongue (and more retrally) at the same time a plop-sound is created (see  “Discussion”).

The action can be repeated rapidly several times in series.

-3 Subsequently a swallow is carried out with lips wide open (see “Discussion”).

(B)

As an intensification the same follow-up, now, is carried out without the RAILING.

-Timing:  In the general course of therapy this exercise is placed at the end of training the second or even the last tongue third. One sequence includes one water squirt and about ten pops followed by the swallow – in three times repetition fluently in succession.

About three sequences may be assembled to a series. The exercise may, as well, be arranged as unilateral.

Characteristics:

Function kinetic orientated partial reflex exercise, in the first variation (A) manipulated.

Remarks:

The farther distally the muscle action is concentrated the harder they are to be carried out consciously, the more they are established in the reach of the less consciously influenced reflex chain links.

Discussion:

The sound which, in former times, served to giddy up horses is not so easily producible and difficult to be described. It resembles the  ,ZIP’-EXERCISE for the rostral vestibulum and originates when the tongue rim tears loose with a jolt from the inner surface of the molar teeth. To give an aid to orientation the SLURP-AND-WALLOW may be carried out, where the attention is to be directed towards the air stream which is sucked in by the lungs. Then, in contrary to this, in the here discussed exercise the air stream is not created by the lungs but by the sinking down of the oral diaphragm.

The here described plop resembles the action to clean the lateral interdental embrasures from fibre material. Here the oral cavity stays shut at the back allowing a calm continued breathing through the nose – a fact suitable for monitoring the correct performance.

The GIDDY-UP is intended to practice a partial reflex of the swallow process namely the emptying of the lateral parts of the vestibulum.

In this manner the exercise is analogue to the ,ZIP’-EXERCISE for the rostral vestibulum. That is the reason why the here discussed exercise should be carried out in the end stage without the straw, the water syringe and with lips closed.

In this mode it is only practicable with a muscle action quasi as a silent plop.

To control the lateral suction effect literature describes an exercise in which water is sucked out of a cup with the aid of a straw. This tube is cut diagonally at its mouth-side end. The end is pushed far back between cheek and molars. If, now, fluid is to be sucked out of the cup this will only the work, if the muscle function trained in the discussed in exercise already goes on correctly, i.e., the lateral tongue margin sucking the neighbouring vestibulum empty.

Should there be greater difficulties in the start phase of the exercise, the approach over the may be advisable.

The GIDDY-UP is one of the few effective exercises for the lateral tongue margin. Its application is equally recommended for problems as the lateral tongue biting.

Similarly situated are the exercises

 PODGY TONGUE- SLIM TONGUE,

LITTLE ROLE,

DRAW-BACK ,

SLENDER TONGUE and

  TONGUE CONTACTS.

Instructions:

This exercise requires much practicing and skill. It enables the tongue to get its side rim under control so that it can not bend the tooth arch.

At the beginning the training should take place with a ,RAILING’. In this case you take a straw crosswise into your mouth, same as in the, RAILING’-EXERCISE. This will cause the tongue tip to stay up and in front and not to bother.

Later on, when it has learned to stay sitting on its POINT while the back part is doing its work, the RAILING may be disposed of.

The exercise goes so:

First, to make things go easier, some water is squirted into the cheek pocket, left, then right.

The tongue tip stays sitting down quietly the throat closed at the back, the breathing air goes through the nose.

The lips are open.

If, now, the tongue draws its margins on both side away from the teeth  towards the middle the water from the cheek pocket makes “slurp” and dashes through between the teeth into the mouth hole.

This is the lateral plop, the giddy-up, which you, now, can do very often in succession, with water or even with air. In between just swallow once and go on practicing, as often as we agreed upon, once left, once right.