Promoting Orofacial Muscle Balance
- Myofunctional therapy is an exercise-based treatment modality. It's just like doingphysical therapy, only for symptoms and conditions related to the face, mouth and jaws.
- If your tongue rests low in your mouth, or if you’re breathing through your mouth, then this is a strong sign that you need myofunctional therapy.
- Myofunctional therapy is a program that utilizes a specific sequence to engage the muscles of the face to encourage nasal breathing, lip seal and an elevated tongue. In order to achieve facial balance we must focus the teeth, joint and muscles. By doing this we increase facial awareness, build facial muscles and coordination of the muscles of the mouth and face. The ripple effect throughout the body could result in better digestion, correct posture, a decrease in headaches, reduced TMJ symptoms, facial awareness and decreased sleep apnea.
