BLANK SWALLOW

Myofunktional Exercise  Collect ion

Application:

No illustration

This method may be applied as habituation measure in the final phase of  training for correcting the swallow reflex.  The swallow reflex as such has been restituted. The here described procedure complicates the training through the requested concentration (Anatomy: 1. 3. 5., Page 24.)

Contents:

Conscious triggering and carry-out of the swallow reflex without the stimulus of  substance to be swallowed.

Materials:

Not needed.

Procedure:

This exercise will be positioned in a similar place of the overall therapy course as the as the CONTINUOUS SWALLOW. It may be considered if  BLANK SWALLOW is positioned before or after it.

- Previous exercises: In the course of correcting the swallow reflex every detail step of this reflex chain should have been rehearsed correctly ( in connection see especially the exercises for TONGUE-TIP-ORIENTATION or as well  SWALLOW-MECHANISM and SWALLOW REFLEX EXERCISES).

As a direct pre-exercise for difficult cases the exercise  may LICK may precede. In the further course this, then, is practiced without the trigger substance but in the same sequence ( see ‘Discussion’).

-Starting position: Take up a position such as BASIC-POSITION.

- Step-by-step-description:

-1 The tongue tip goes to the POINT.

-2 Now (et cetera, single step description as in CONTINUOUS SWALLOW).

-Timing:  (Ditto)

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Discussion:

The exercise aims at the patient collecting the saliva the same way as chewing matter or liquids in the DIMPLE and, next, swallowing. As may patients have an aversion against “swallowing the own saliva” we take this procedure as detours. The procedure means a raised concentration on the correct follow-up of steps in  swallowing before the triggering act.

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