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AUTOGENE TRAINING

Myofunktional Exercise  Collection

Application:

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See also MENTAL TRAINING:The concept falls within the variations of the Mental Training and emphasizes the fact that the patient executes the learned skills on his own initiative.
The Myofunctional Therapy is applied on neuro-muscular systems – an interaction of nerve and muscle, of regulator organ and effector organ, of the sensomotoric (feed-back) regulatory circuit.
So the mental component is unavoidably integrated in the therapeutic procedure.
Other therapeutic approach try to correct an impaired state either by ways of physiotherapeutic manipulations as, for example, massage but also often with schooling or supervision of the neuromuscular actions or through apparative aids like the vestibular shield, the tongue deflector and grid, spikes and splints. In contrary to that in Myofunctional Therapy stands, to put it simply, help to self-help in the foreground.
This inevitably in the beginning requires a much greater engagement of the therapist but, in the long run, has the sustainable long time success.
We are educating our patients, teaching them, qualifying them; our therapy goal is reached, when our patient has learned to monitor himself and to correct himself with the appropriate means. For we should proceed on the assumption that our patient bears a tendency for vicious habits which they have to learn to notice spontaneously without great effort and to correct them.
All this Myofunctional Therapy wants to gain, not least by the habituation of a neuromotor action within a feedback slope positioned in the end phase of the total therapy.
A variety of components and those in nearly all of our exercises include this mental aspect; the Autogenic Training, now, is particularly aiming at this.
Especially to avoid nocturnal dysfunctions it needs this particular method.

Contents:

Mental Training in support and correction of neuromuscular action loops.

Materials:
As the procedure is orientated solely mentally no substantial items are administered.

Procedure:

- Previous exercises: Generally the neuromuscular process of the action will have to be learned and possibly habituated.
-Starting position: No special advice; as it would mainly be a matter of a night-time application a relaxed sleeping position is indicated.

- Step-by-step-Description: -1 The patient takes up the relaxed sleeping position which mostly will be quite individual. It might be not quite advisable to prescribe a sleeping position which, then, may be not taken up in a not tensed way. To make the procedure accessible even for children the following description is drawn up in an at most simple way (which may possibly be applicable equally for adults but with some variations).
-2 At first the patient is tuned in on mental calmness and balance.
Now imagine entering a large room like a class-room. Everybody is shouting across each other and is full of hubbub. This is the inside of your head. Now your inner voice will shout out into the room:”Quiet!”! It probably must do that several times and slowly, quite slowly it is getting silent in up there in the large room in your head.
-3 In the following step the patient will be adjusted respectively gets adjusted at to the rest tonicity of the musculature.
Now enter the elevator and press the button”Down”. Feel how the elevator is moving down, by and by from the top; everything on your body is getting heavy and pulls you down, down on to your mattress. There you have arrived far down at your feet. Everything is quiet and heavy; your feet are feeling comfortingly warm
-4 (Initiating the well-feeling of warmth and steady blood flow) and so you will ride up with your elevator, up to the head, slowly and leisurely. The warmth of your feet you are taking along with you. With going up one floor after the other is getting comfortably warm either till you are arriving up there at your head with the warmness.
Listen around again!”
Everything quiet,
everything heavy,
everything warm
- in the big house of your body.
-5 Now we are going to attach to the wall of the large room a beautiful painting.
On this picture will be written in neat letters:
-6 Here now follows the order for the rule to be observed.
For the example of the TEETHCLICKING
this would mean:“When I sense this “Click” I will immediately go back to the RESTPOSITION “.

- Timing:

In the evening before falling asleep.

Characteristics:

Mental Training; Habituation.

Remarks:

For the Autogenic Training the prescription is given to perform a “Taking Back” (: I, now, return from the state of relaxation into the wakefulness!).
As we, here, proceed on the assumption that the patient will have fallen asleep during or after the training and is waking up normally in the morning a taking-back will not be demandable.

Discussion:
See above.

Instructions: See above.