CHEEK MUSCLE EXERCISES

Myofunktional Exercise  Collect ion

Application:

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This chapter describes no single exercises, here a group of exercises is summarised having the same target area. The exercises will be prescribed to be employed for example for slack cheeks, cheek pressing or biting and neuromuscular failures presumably of the M. Buccinator but Risorius as well (see also Anatomy: Area I, Page 11, ‘Belt Musculature’).

Contents:

The contents exercise-specifically have a tone varying or stretching effect. An overview to the special effect is given in the List of Exercises at the end of this chapter.

Materials:

Exercise specific.

Procedure:

- Previous exercises: -for training the cheek muscles is generally not needed.

-Starting position: The position is exercise specific.

- Step-by-step-description: See the respective exercise description.

-Timing: likewise

Characteristics:

The compiled exercises are supposed to mainly have a eutonising effect. In this case, again, the rule, of course, is: At first the Sensitivity of the target area must be given, then its Orientation; consequently the work at the tonicity can start.

Remarks:

Considering that there has to be a balance between the inside and outside of the Cavum Oris in respect of the Orofacial Musculature the inside should be watched here too.

Discussion:

In the exercises commonly the cheek muscles (i.e. the Risorius and the Buccinator) are addressed. A necessary synergist is the ‘third in the league’, the direct Perioral Musculature of the Orbicularis with all the possible muscle fibres leading in radially (Anatomy: Area I, Page 11, Illustration 17).

In the follow there is compiled a list with cheek exercises with the muscle-physiological content in a short characterisation behind the name.

List of  Exercises

BALLOON    .

Stretching, Tone raising

BLOW THE BALL.

Coordinative muscle toning

WIDE GRIN.

Contractive maintaining of the posture

LETTER SLOT.

Contractive maintaining, specially Buccinator

DIMPLE

(see DIAGNOSTIC EXERCISES)

AIR BALLOON EXERCISES

Isodynamic strengthening exercises

TRUMBONE

Coordinative tensioning

TONOMETER EXERCISES

(here the specific cheek exercises)

CHEEKBUMP

Passiv Autostretching

TEETHRINSING

Function orientated Motility Training.

Instructions:

…….for the patient can be looked up under the respective exercise description.