PHARYNX-CLOSING-EXERCISES

Myofunktional Exercise  Collect ion

Application:

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This chapter gives a general description of a collective group of exercises and details which are sharing the here described facts. 

This group of exercises also is a part of the measures described in the chapter REAR ORAL CAVITY.  The problems addressed there, as Sleep-Apnoe or snoring, do also apply here. To offer a more substantial survey they are presented here in a specially confined scale.

Target area of the exercises are those defects which mainly influence the respiration (especially the nose breathing).

Through a targeted training the respective pharynx musculature is to be strengthened ore relocated into the physiological frame.

Contents:

Depending on the objectives the exercises will serve a muscle strengthening, the composition of a functional movement pattern or the habituation and moreover the realization of dysfunctions.

Materials:

Exercise specific.

Procedure:

- Previous exercises: Exercise specific; the exercises may be applied not only in combination with others but as well independently.

-Starting position: Mainly the RESTPOSITION.

- Step-by-step-description: Exercise specific.

-Timing: The exercises are practiced in the daily routine and, combined with mental Training, before falling asleep.

Characteristics:

Sensitation, Orientation, Stereognosis, Habituation, Motivation to self-monitoring, Feed-back, Function kinetic, Rest-position, Static or Kinetic.

Remarks:

As already pointed out in another connection the treatment of these cases is, as a result of the psychic component of the disorder, rather problematic and demanding a concentrated cooperation of the patient.

Discussion:

The following list will make it easier to find out the respective exercises as short descriptions point out the contents of the exercise.

LIST OF EXERCISES

(Arranged after the translated German alphabetical layout)

For the short descriptions see chapter REAR ORAL CAVITY (List of exercises)

BLOW THE  STRAW: Puffing through a straw out of the oral cavity without interruption.

STRAW SUCKING: Sucking in liquids without interrupting the respiration.

‚KICK’: Formation of a sound under conscious sensing – Tactile kinaesthesia.

MOUTHBREATHING: Collection with commentary of exercises dealing especially with this disorder.

,P-P-P’-EXERCISE: Coordinated lip movement for an oral fissure closure and air flow control.

PIPELINE: Coordination of swallow and respiration rhythm.

SOAPBUBBLES: Playful exercise with a varying mouth whole volume without interrupting the respiration.

WATER PUMP: Run liquids through a straw while continuing nose breathing. The exercise BALLON is especially recommended as it may be featured variably (see respective chapter). Equally distinguished through this effect are the TONOMTEREXERCISES.

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