DUCKBILL

Myofunktional Exercise  Collect ion

Application:

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The exercise belongs to the group of  ORBICULARIS-EXERCISES (see “Discussion”) and will be suited as a countermeasure in case of an incomplete lip closure, lip pressing and thin lips.

(Anatomie: Areal I, Seite 13)

Contents:

Basically this exercise works for gross motor skill and tone raising in a restricted muscle area (see “Discussion”). As equally discussed later on it contains a tone reducing component for other muscle tracks. Moreover it may be put in as two different modes – as a hold exercise in a static mode or as a kinetic exercise in the arrangement CHANGING EXERCISE together with, for example, the WIDE GRIN

Materials:

Not required.

Procedure:

- Previous exercises: Depending on the usage mode in CHANGING EXERCISE or  in an increase series the respective accompanying exercise should have been studied.

-Starting position: There is no prescription for a defined position; recommendable the ,L-M’-POSITION.

- Step-by-step-Description:

-1 In the hold mode the patient pushes the lips lengthily forward, to make a duckbill.

-2 The position is held with counting up, afterwards back to the start.

- For the CHANGING arrangement see below.

-Timing: In the special case the “hold” sets the length of a sequence which may be counted up to about twenty. Generally the exercise may be built up  as a change-series with exercises for a tensing as TIED-UP SACK or ,O’-EXERCISE but equally as an increase-series followed by exercises as >  ,O’-EXERCISE > CHERRY-MOUTH and the like. In that case counting up offers two possibility, either in a sequence shifting as described above or in a rapid shift from the current training position to that of the associated exercise as a change frequency. This results in a frequency beat within the sequence which is counted up in a slow alteration up to twenty times.

-Timing: In the special case the “hold” sets the length of a sequence which may be counted up to about twenty. Generally the exercise may be built up  as a change-series with exercises for a tensing as TIED-UP SACK or ,O’-EXERCISE but equally as an increase-series followed by exercises as >  ,O’-EXERCISE > CHERRY-MOUTH and the like. In that case counting up offers two possibility, either in a sequence shifting as described above or in a rapid shift from the current training position to that of the associated exercise as a change frequency. This results in a frequency beat within the sequence which is counted up in a slow alteration up to twenty times.

Characteristics:

In the simple mode gross motor skills, static, tone raising including relaxation in defined muscle regions;

in the change mode additionally motility.

Remarks:

It has been mentioned above that the exercise is less suitable for cases of mentalis hyperactivity.

Discussion:

As discussed in the chapter ORBICULARIS-EXERCISES some of these especially aim at the muscle ring (circular fibres) and here again at specific fibre tracks. Looking at the moth slit as the centre the tracks can be divided in those more remote (meaning more to the periphery) and close range (meaning more to the centre). The here discussed exercise addresses rather the more centrally positioned  tracks whereas simultaneously upper lip depressors and lower lip elevators get activated. This is also a reason why ghis exercise should not be applied in a mentalis hyperactivity case. Besides the straining of the described muscles those being sited more to the periphery get relaxed  what makes the lips get everted. A similar exercise where additionally the lateral component gets activated as well is the TIED-UP SACK where the “Duckbill” is constricted from both sides.  The DUCK BILL may be seen as quasi the  TIED-UP SACK pulled width-wise (see there). That exercise may be used as the starting position or, in combination with the BABBLE for loosening up.

Instructions

Now your lips will try to form a beak like those from ducks,  flat and long.

The result is kept for some time: “Keep the beak shut!” Count to ten or as long as we agreed upon. We possibly talked about some more? With which exercise the duck bill is practiced together?

So, do it as we said.