What is Myofunctional Therapy?
Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (OMT) works for all ages.
WHAT IS MYOFUNCTIONAL THERAPY?
Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (OMT) is a transformative program that can change the way your tongue and facial muscles function! OMT will help you strengthen these muscles, and use them without compensations.
Through a comprehensive functional assessment. We will create a personalized therapeutic exercise series to retrain your oral posture, correct compensations, and achieve nasal breathing. This program will improve your overall health. The ability to breathe easier, sleep sound, and function with less pain will increase your quality of life.
Don't delay discovering the benefits of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy. Start breathing, sleeping, and swallowing optimally!
Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy helps with...
Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy is a series of exercises teaching proper tongue placement, nasal breathing, proper oral phase swallowing and help to address a wide range of the health problems including:
- Sleep disordered breathing including obstructive sleep apnea
- Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome
- Orthodontic and surgical relapse
- Tongue-tie and tongue thrust
- Facial and neck pain
- Craniofacial growth and development
- Headaches
- Postural issues
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- Better facial symmetry
- Reduction in teeth grinding
- Reduced nasal obstruction
- Reduction in sleep apnea episodes
- Aid in the development of normal patterns of dental eruption and alignment
- Improved muscle tone of the tongue to aid in speech (although OMT is not speech therapy)
- Improved posture
- Proper breathing
- Better sleep
- Improved attention span
- Ability to move oral muscles properly
- Increasing the tone and mobility of oral structures
- Correct use of oral structures
Eliminate nail biting, thumb sucking and other oral habits
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