I finally understand why people who have completed the IJustWantTo Correct My Tongue Thrust program report that they no longer get up during the night to go to the bathroom! Dr. Ilene Rosen from the University of Pennsylvania explains that when you stop breathing because something is blocking the airway, the brain works very hard to keep your oxygen level up.
The Unique Discovery of a Way to Stop Snoring!
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In 1994, I opened an outpatient speech therapy clinic in Asheville, N.C. I started getting referrals for children who had a tongue thrust. These were school-aged children so why weren’t they receiving speech therapy in the school? I learned that tongue thrust is not treated in schools because it is not an educational problem. This meant that parents had to pay for private speech therapy and make arrangements for weekly appointments.
I had not received much training for tongue thrust in college, so I researched everything available and began using different programs until I learned, with experience, what actually worked. Treatment required the child to perform different tongue exercises and they had to practice at least 2 times daily or the program would not work. Only twelve lessons were needed to correct the tongue thrust. The accompanying parent observed me showing the child how to do the new exercises for the upcoming week so they could help the child if needed.
Are You Especially Irritable in the Morning?
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Many people don’t realize their tongue plays a bigger role in our bodies than we think. Your tongue serves a variety of essential functions, even when it’s at rest. The relationship between the muscles in your face, mouth, and throat affects how you eat, speak, sleep, and even breathe.
For some individuals, these muscles may not always function well together as they’re supposed to. As a result, poor tongue posture can lead to a variety of health issues, including changes in the face, sleep apnea, teeth grinding, misaligned teeth, and much more.
You may be suffering from tongue thrust, which causes mouth breathing that can affect your sleep. Luckily, there are ways you can correct your tongue thrust! Just like exercise for your body, tongue posture is a good habit to maintain your sleeping posture and improve your breathing.
Keep Getting Elbowed by Your Partner While Asleep?
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Sleep should be a time of peace and quiet. Where we relax and refresh for the next day. Unfortunately, for many people, it isn’t quite as serene and calm as we might hope; whether it is you or a partner that is affected, evidence indicates that 60 percent of adults experience sleep disturbances like restless sleep.
And for partners of restless sleepers, this more often than not means a knee in the back or frequently getting elbowed as they move throughout the night. Restless sleep affects sleep throughout the night with tossing, turning, kicking, and other subtle body movements. But, perhaps annoyingly for the rest of us, the restless sleeper can often be oblivious to the chaos at night and wakes refreshed, while you remain tired.
How to Function on 3 Hours of Sleep: A Stop-Snoring Case Study
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Amy was a 41-year-old news reporter. She contacted me because she was getting complaints from viewers who said she was too slow and robotic.
Amy’s life: She was working weekends at the TV station and only getting about 3 hours of sleep per night. Amy complained of a severely dry mouth and she was afraid she was going to mispronounce words because of the dryness. Hence, the slow and labored word production.
Getting up at night to urinate may be sign of sleep apnea
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