Muscle your tongue 20 minutes a day to combat sleep apnea. Are you ready for an original bodybuilding session? Then listen to Episode 86 of Sixth Science, science podcast Science and the future Based on 20 minutes. Into the microphone, Sylvie Rio Milliot, chief of health at Science et Avenir, answers questions from Roman Golomes from 20 minutes and tells you all about language rehabilitation, an additional tool used in the treatment of sleep apnea syndrome.
a Myofunctional therapy is still in short supply
This sleep disturbance is often of mechanical origin, as there are various factors at the origin of reduced air passage. he is It is defined by a lot of pauses in breathing during sleep, the consequences of which, in addition to drowsiness and daytime fatigue, can be metabolic and cardiovascular, making them dangerous.
The method of language rehabilitation, also called myofunctional therapy, is still little studied, and therefore little practiced due to the insufficient number of specialized physical therapists, can in fact help a very large number of people involved, three million in France, billion in the scientist. An example in Bordeaux with a dedicated, multidisciplinary team from the New Bel Air Clinic where the journalist went.
Take out your tongue, click on it
The goal of the sessions here is to strengthen and tone this 17-muscle organ which, over time, tends to get slick with fat and lose its tone. In practice, patients learn, according to exercises with a physiotherapist, to bring their tongue out from left to right, to lift it, and to slap its …
When it comes to sleep apnea, it is clear that different degrees of severity are possible. The goal during sleep recordings is the number of periods of complete (apnea) or partial (apnea) to assess their severity and to calculate the sleep apnea index (AHI) for each hour of sleep. It is considered normal between 0 and 5, and can exceed 30 in severe forms. However, studies have accurately shown that daily 20-minute lingual physical therapy for 6 months can reduce the index by 50%.
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