Support your body’s ability to swallow and sing with exercise:
Better tongue posture with massage & strengthening exercises.
Improve your swallow with throat exercises.
Decrease adhesions going to your larynx (voicebox)
Improve hyoid bone tracking.
Infrahyoid and suprahyoid muscle stretching and toning.
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When doing these videos, gauge your ability to swallow, see if you are choking less on your food and listen to the sound of your voice. If there is any pain, discomfort or worsening of your symptoms, stop immediately. These are meant, when it is possible, to be done while under the care of a chiropractor, dentist, speech therapist or myofunctional therapist that is well versed in your challenge.
*These videos and my comments are not meant to diagnose your problem. No promises are made for your success just a way to address your throat, jaw, tongue, hyoid, muscles and not a treatment for your condition.
Dr Fields is in Northern California. To get in-office or help over Zoom, contact Dr Fields at:
www.fieldsfamilychiro.com
0:00 Start
:15 Neck massage for better swallowing
:58 Anterior Digastric Trigger Point Massage with Tongue Exercises for swallowing
2:15 Platysma and chest stretch for throat opening
2:50 Counter stretch of the back of the neck
3:14 Effortful Swallow Exercise
4:20 Anterior Digastric and Mylohyoid Muscle massage
5:15 Anterior Scalene Stretch for better swallowing
6:20 Swallowing and holding the Adam's Apple up
7:33 Posterior Digastric Insertion Massage
8:35 Tongue on the roof of the mouth with head rotations, breaths and saying, "ah"
10:08 Posterior Digastric Muscle Trigger Point Therapy
11:38 Open mouth exercise with curled tongue for a deeper voice and open throat
12:34 Untether your swallowing structures with neck massage