Why FacExer and how it works

JUNE is National Dysphagia Awareness Month. It's not too late to help spread awareness! We are looking for partners and volunteers. Please, read: The personal exerciser (FacExer) adds a resistance component to the existing oral-motor exercises for various disorders (neurodegenerative disease, tumors of the head and neck, infection, or trauma, stroke), making exercises more effective. Resistance provided by FacExer helps increase lingual muscle strength and mass , which improves the timing of the swallowing components, according to study (Senescent Swallowing: Impact, Strategies and Interventions. Ney et al., 2009). In addition, FacExer stimulates muscles of mastication and the oral-motor system during...

       It is well known fact that our posture is very important. The head should sit directly on the neck and shoulders. The weight of the head , holding forward, puts tremendous strain on our neck and upper back muscles. Unfortunately, our life style doesn't contribute to proper posture. Look around - our poor postures are "forward head postures" when check our smartphones, tablets, computers. The result can be aching neck.        Our head is quite heavy. Average adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds, average human tongue weighs about 1 pound and consists of 8 muscles.That is why tongue...

Before And After. Neck area is very vulnerable.  It is the first area which shows the signs of aging.  I knew that creepy skin leads to the dreaded "turkey neck." I was terrified - skin care products I successfully used for years didn't help any more. I was buying expensive creams, using products with peptides, Vitamin C, Vitamin A, products which promised collagen and elastin production...My skin, which  is very thin and sensitive, reacted badly with allergies outbreaks (it was skin reaction to chemicals such a preservatives - alcohol etc. in all facial skin care products).     I found solution...

Muscle: Risorius. Symmetrical .Place both exercisers  bilaterally at the corners of your mouth keeping your lips together. Try to draw the corners of your mouth straight back as you pronounce  sound 'eee'. Feel the resistance of FacExer bilaterally. Hold for a count of 5. Repeat 5-10 times. Muscle: Zygomaticus Major. Symmetrical. Place both exercisers bilaterally just outside the corners of your mouth onto your cheeks. Draw the corners of your mouth upwards and outwards as in smiling. Feel resistance of FacExer. Hold for a count of 5. Repeat 5-10 times.      Muscle: Buccinator. Symmetrical muscle.              Press your FacExers against...