Myofunctional Therapy
Myofunctional Therapy
What is Myofunctional Therapy?
Highly effective physical therapy exercises to improve breathing, bite, and orofacial posture.
A series of simple, quick exercises that strengthen the tongue. Myofunctional Therapy will be required before surgery as well as after, where the focus will be on the tongue’s resting position, chewing and swallowing, and a continued emphasis on strengthening. The older you are, the longer you’ve had to develop compensations so it will require patience to relearn how to do things you have done your whole life without much thought.
For a knee surgery, you’d likely see a physical therapist. That same approach is true for the tongue...
Myofunctional Therapy is an essential component in the journey to an optimal airway. From the day we are born, we develop habits that continue throughout our lives—some habits are good, others are not. They eventually become engrained in our brains over a period of time, and the not-so-good habits require us to retrain our brains if we want to truly change behavior. For infants, this means behaviors such as proper suction and swallowing, as well as nasal breathing, can have lifelong impacts on growth and development.