You may not have heard about orofacial myofunctional therapy before. However, this rehabilitative approach offers immense benefits for promoting proper oral muscle function, facilitating speech clarity, improving body posture, and more in both kids and adults.
If you or your child demonstrates habitual patterns like mouth breathing, tongue thrusting, poor resting posture, or articulation errors, myofunctional therapy can help correct foundational muscle imbalances for whole-body wellness.
Also called orofacial myology, myofunctional therapy focuses on assessing and treating improper muscle movements involving the mouth, face, and neck.
A myofunctional therapist provides customized oral motor and oropharyngeal strengthening exercises to establish healthy patterns for optimal growth and function.
A variety of anatomical, sensory, motor, and behavioral factors can disrupt feeding skills.
Myofunctional therapy restores balance and coordination to ensure proper rest positioning and efficient, adaptive movements for speech and swallowing success.
A certified therapist first performs comprehensive assessments to analyze oral muscle strength and tone, breathing, chewing, and swallowing function.
They gather case history details and observe postural, feeding, and speech habits. These findings inform the creation of an individualized treatment plan.
With consistent therapy over weeks to months, clients demonstrate significant improvements in muscle tone, oral rest postures, and speech fluency.
If you notice frequent mouth breathing, tongue thrusts, speech errors, poor head/neck alignment, or other oral muscle imbalances in yourself or your child, myofunctional therapy can help retrain proper speech, swallowing, and postural movement patterns. Call today to discuss how this rehabilitative treatment can reinforce function.
