MNEMONIC

Myofunktional Exercise  Collect ion

Application:

no illustration

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

MNEMONICS mostly will be pre-exercises for other special applications which, on their part, include such a complex procedure that it will, in difficult cases, be necessary to facilitate or even enable the start for the patient with this “trick” to commence in the consequential, i.e. main exercise.

Contents:

MNEMONICS are auxiliary exercises. Mostly they do not contain  “normal” physiological muscle actions but coarsened, similar but easier practicable ones as the exercises the bridge is leading to.

The motion pattern very often is a common action which is applied here for the realisation of posture, position, tonicity and motion.

Materials:

and

Procedure:

are exercise specific,

-Timing: is given through the task of the MNEMONIC to make preparations for another exercise. The specific timing is exercise specific as well.

-Timing: is given through the task of the MNEMONIC to make preparations for another exercise. The specific timing is exercise specific as well.

Characteristics:

Instruction, Sensitation, Orientation, Self-Control, Feed-back, Motivation.

Discussion:

The MNEMONIC presumably has a didactic background. An exercise classified as MNEMONIC is of less meaning on its own. It is its benefit to lead over to a specific exercise, to prepare the ground for it and to eliminate itself by this as fast as possible.

In some cases the “normal” exercise will aid as preparing or bridge exercise for an action which is not directly accessible for the practitioner. This frequently happens when the patient is unable to realise what is expected from him.

With some skill the pure MNEMONIC can be Avoided (as nonphysiologic), as frequently whole chains of exercises can be joined in a row where each exercise makes the bridge for the following one.

The preparation mechanism shall be demonstrated with some following examples:

In the ensuing

              LIST OF EXERCISES

each time the MNEMONIC and the corresponding main exercise respectively pre- and consecutive exercise are listed up:

TONGUE-PLOP-> FROZEN PLOP   ->

(and further)

                     ->  SUCK AND PULL    ->

HOLD AND PULL ->      (and further)

                     -> HOLD THE RING      ->

(TONGUEBELLYTEST/CAT’S HUNCHED BACK)

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MOUSE-SQUEAK->,ZIP’-EXERCISE.

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SLURP-AND-SWALLOW  ->   ,1-2-3’-EXERCISE   -> in its – different – stages of configuration.

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,L-M’-POSITION -> RESTPOSITION

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PLATELET-HOLDER -> ,M’-POSITION

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DRAW-BACK->SLENDER TONGUE

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THE  PEA-> ,DRAWER-IN’-EXERCISE

As a completion for this list there might be numerated all the partial reflex exercises which, for example, would work out one chain link of the reflex chain SWALLOW to have at hand, in the end, every muscle action to be able to coordinate them to a whole reflex.

At this see also paragraph EXERCISES ARRANGED IN THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE REFLEXCHAIN in chapter SWALLOWRIGHT