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Functional cranial release treatment used in conjunction with Gluthatione is highly effective in treating patients presenting with symptoms of Parkinson’s disease,chronic sinusitis, brain function, tinnitus, chronic fatigue syndrome, sleep apnea, migraine, stroke, vertigo and more.
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This amazing new treatment has many able to avoid or stop CPAC by correcting Sleep Apnea.
Dear Sleep Apnea and Snoring Sufferer,
Snoring and Sleep Apnea are among the most common complaints of Americans today! These symptoms are NOT normal! They are a sign that something is not functioning right.
We were not designed to have difficulties breathing while awake or asleep! Our original blueprints did not include Sleep Apnea or Snoring as an option. Your body is designed for an active day and a peaceful nights rest to allow you to wake up feeling refreshed.
We are not designed to stop breathing during our sleep nor are we designed to keep our loved ones awake with the sounds of a train running across the bed.
Signs and Symptoms To Look For
Many spouses or mates notice loud snoring interrupted by pauses in breathing of ten seconds or more, perhaps followed by gruff snorts or gasps for air.
Snoring as well as high blood pressure, leg swelling, memory lapses, frequent daytime sleepiness, as well as trouble concentrating warrants an evaluation.
Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is a disorder that causes breathing to stop during sleep for anywhere from ten seconds up to several minutes. These pauses in breathing called apneas, can occur hundreds of times a night and are more likely to occur in certain positions, particularly when sleeping on the back. If apnea is severe enough, the sleeper wakes up gasping for breath and may never get more than five minutes of uninterrupted sleep all night. Sleep apnea is more prevalent in older individuals, men and overweight people.
When apnea occurs, the cessation in breathing causes a drop in blood oxygen levels, forcing the heart to labor harder to keep the blood oxygenated. The brain sends strong signals to the body to make an all-out effort to start breathing again. The chest muscles heave and the lungs work to draw in air, usually accompanied by gasps and loud snorts. The sleeper rouses just enough to shift position. While normal people might experience four or five of these breathing-related arousals during the night, people with apnea have dozens, even hundreds, of apnea episodes every night.
People who suffer from sleep apnea have a high risk of contracting hypertension, strokes, and heart disease. In severe cases, a sleep apnea victim may actually spend more time not breathing than breathing and may be at risk for death.
Sleep Apnea Interferes With Your Sleep!
Apnea severely interferes with sleep. During the sleep apnea episode, the victim is aroused just long enough to start breathing again, but not long enough to remember being awake. The chronic sleep disruption caused by sleep apnea may leave the victim feeling exhausted and sleepy during the day. In the morning, they will feel extremely groggy and unrested. They go through the day feeling sleepy and fatigued. The longer the condition persists, the more sleep-deprived they become.
Sleep Apnea vs. Snoring
When you snore, the air you inhale is being forced to pass through partially blocked passages (such as the nostrils or the back of the throat). In other words, the air still flows when you are snoring. In contrast, during sleep apnea, the air flow stops completely.
Finally, A Cure!
My name is Dr. John Lieurance and I have developed an amazing new technique called Functional Cranial Release or FCR. I have been asked to teach this amazing treatment to both medical and chiropractic physician’s internationally. FCR creates permanent, incremental improvement to your structure which in turn, allows your body to return to it’s original design – your most vibrant, harmonious, pain-free and energetic mode of functioning.
I have seen consistently great results using FCR to treat Sleep Apnea and Snoring. The correction must address the problems of the entire skull, not just the local symptoms. When FCR treatment has progressed and nasal breathing function is restored, Sleep Apnea and Snoring will be lessened and ultimately, stopped.
If you REALLY want to get rid of your Sleep Apnea and Snoring and start living a normal life in a short period of time, then please consider the following regarding this amazing treatment…
When Functional Cranial Release (FCR) is performed, an endonasal balloon is inflated in one of the two nasal breathing passages one to four seconds each treatment. The nasal breathing passages consist of the area that begin with the nostrils and ends in the throat and this is made wider with FCR.
This improves nasal breathing function. As the connective tissue releases and the interlocking bones of the head shift, movement continues throughout the skull until the pressures between the bones are equalized. With FCR, most widening of the nasal airways initially created by the endonasal balloon can be retained. FCR enables a person to breath easily through the nose. By opening up the nasal airway, the need for mouth breathing is diminished – hence sleep apnea and snoring is diminished, sometimes instantly!
Our results now show that Functional Cranial Release (FCR) is a much gentler and far more effective treatment for curing Sleep Apnea and Snoring…
If you live in the area, call our office at (941) 330-8553 and schedule your free consultation! We DO treat Sleep Apnea and Snoring as well as the accompanying headaches and sinus problems with this condition. Often, we may take x-rays of the structures of the skull and neck before care. We work with some insurance policies and we also offer payment plans.
Dont Procrastinate, Call (941) 330-8553 Now And Reserve Your Earliest Appointment. The Longer You Wait to Call Us, The Longer You’ll Have To Wait For An Appointment!
On behalf of everyone at Advanced Wellness Center, I look forward to meeting you to discover if I can help you! Remember, you haven’t tried everything until you’ve at least had a consultation at my office! And, since its free and there is absolutely no obligation, you have nothing to lose! (Except your Apnea or snoring of course!
P.S. – After I evaluate your pain, I will tell you if I can help you or not. And, if so, how long it will take and an approximate cost. Then you can start care, or go home and think about it! We are a busy office and there will be absolutely no pressure to begin care!
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Below is an article on facial / throat exercises for sleep apnea. It addresses the issues with the tounge and the strength and placement to improve obstructive sleep apnea. Once FCR corrects the nasal airway and widens the maxilla then these exercises are prescribed. The results are in the 90% with the combination of both.
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Tongue and throat exercises have been found to reduce neck circumference and improve the symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, according to an article in the May 15 2009 Am J Respir Crit Care Med entitled “Effects of oropharyngeal exercises on patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.”BMI and ABD circumference did not change significantly, but neck circumference did in the tongue exercise group (n=16, 39.6 +/- 3.6cm) vs the null group (n=15, 38.5 +/- 4.0 cm) with a p value <0.05. Sleep apnea measures like snoring frequency/intensity, daytime sleepiness/sleep quality score and apnea-hyponea index were also decreased.
This is an exciting alternative to CPAP, which many patients dislike because they have to wear a mask that blasts air down their throats to sleep. If they are willing to be compliant with exercises that strengthen their throat muscles and reduce their neck size, then I would certainly refer them to the following video below for some example exercises:
Below is an article on facial / throat exercises for sleep apnea. It addresses the issues with the tounge and the strength and placement to improve obstructive sleep apnea. Once FCR corrects the nasal airway and widens the maxilla then these exercises are prescribed. The results are in the 90% with the combination of both.
On the Plausibility of Upper Airway Remodeling as an Outcome of Orofacial Exercise
Catriona M. Steele, Ph.D.
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
and
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
In this issue of the Journal (pp. 962–966), Guimarãesand colleagues report improvements in obstructive sleep apnea(OSA) in patients who practiced (30 min daily, over 3 mo) exercisesderived from traditional speech therapy techniques (1). Theauthors acknowledge a lack of previous evidence regarding theeffectiveness of such exercises (2) for speech or swallowingrehabilitation and argue that their contribution cannot be appreciatedin terms of the specific actions of individual exercises. Rather,they conclude that the collective effect was a remodeling ofthe upper airway extensive enough to carry over from wakefulexercise to alter the pharyngeal airspace in sleep. We reviewthe treatment tasks used by these authors in an attempt to elucidatetheir results and the mechanisms by which they may have arisen.
Obstructive sleep apnea results from decreased upper airwaymuscle tone during sleep and associated collapsibility of themuscles in the hypopharynx (3). The genioglossus, an extrinsictongue protrusive muscle, has been especially implicated. Sublingualelectrical stimulation of the protrusive and retrusive tonguemuscles improves flow dynamics during moderate upper airwayobstruction (3). Genioglossus activity correlates strongly withnegative pharyngeal pressures measured at the epiglottis (4).Tongue protrusive force is directly correlated with maximuminspiratory pressures; a high wakeful ratio reduces the propensityto OSA (5). Such studies lay a theoretical foundation for thepossibility that exercising the hypopharyngeal musculature mightalleviate conditions contributing to OSA.
Guimarães and colleagues used an exercise approach toimprove upper airway function in moderate OSA (1). To appreciatetheir results, it is necessary to consider the goals of theexercises included, and explore whether principles of neuromuscularrehabilitation were followed such that the reported resultsare plausible. The use of orofacial exercises to amelioratespeech and swallowing difficulties is highly controversial;nonspeech oral motor exercises are not thought to be effectivefor improving speech intelligibility (6). Amid this controversy,clinicians are exhorted to base their exercise selection onbest evidence and sound theoretical principles and to tailorexercises to the specific functional deficits that they wishto treat (2). It is important to determine whether the goalof an exercise is one of strengthening, building endurance,restoring optimal muscle tone, or facilitating speed/range/powerduring movement (2). Typical approaches for tone restorationin the limb musculature (e.g., tapping, stretching, and applicationof vibration, heat or cold) are unlikely to affect the lipsand tongue, which lack muscle spindles (7). For treatments targetingmuscle strength and endurance, elements of exercise load andintensity must be considered, as well as the frequency and durationof treatment (8). Muscle strength is a questionable goal inspeech rehabilitation because speech production is not a higheffort task (2). For swallowing rehabilitation, however, tonguestrength improves with 6 to 8 weeks of resistance exercises(compression of an air-filled pressure bulb placed between thetongue and the hard palate) when these exercises are practicedwith 60 to 180 repetitions, 3 days per week, at loads between60 and 80% of maximum isometric tongue pressure capacity (9,10).
Returning to Guimarães and colleagues (1), we can askwhether the tasks included in the treatment regime have suitableneuromuscular goals and task specificity and whether the intensity(load), frequency, and duration of exercise was sufficient tobe likely to achieve the reported changes in the targeted musculature.Guimarães and colleagues identified three specific targets:long/floppy soft palates, habitual tongue postures leading toenlarged tongue bulk, and inferiorly displaced hyoid bone position.For now, we will discount the lip and cheek exercises that wereincluded; the remote locations of these structures make theseexercises unlikely to have contributed meaningfully to remodelingof the oropharyngeal airway.
Soft palate function and lateral pharyngeal wall motion haveclear anatomical relevance to OSA; they were targeted by Guimarãesand colleagues (1) with oral vowel production tasks. Althoughclinical supervision was provided weekly to ensure that adequateeffort was used, evidence suggests that vowel production isvery unlikely to be a sufficiently effortful task to inducemuscle changes (2). However, another of the tasks used by Guimarãesand colleagues involved nasal inhalation and oral balloon inflation(1). The authors cite a recent related study of didgeridoo playingas a treatment for OSA, which yielded favorable results (11).It seems reasonable to conclude that both didgeridoo playingand balloon inflation involve sufficient air pressure to applyresistance against the mucosal walls of the nasopharynx. Changesin the tone or strength of the underlying musculature appearto be plausible outcomes of these exercises, provided that theyare practiced with high effort and sufficient frequency overa period of 4 to 8 weeks (8).
Tongue function was targeted by Guimarães and colleagueswith anterior-to-posterior sliding of the tongue tip along thehard palate, pressing the tongue body up against the hard palate,forceful lowering of the tongue base while anchoring the tonguetip behind the lower incisors, and bilateral bread chewing withthe tongue positioned in midline behind the teeth (1). Althoughorofacial regulation therapy approaches (which target tongueposition within the oropharynx with exercises such as thesetongue base–lowering and chewing tasks) are popular, particularlyin Europe, evidence of their effectiveness is essentially nonexistent.Tongue brushing (also included) is a technique usually usedto promote muscle relaxation; because the tongue lacks musclespindles, brushing is very unlikely to have contributed to thereported outcomes (2). This leaves the anterior-to-posteriortongue tip–palatal slide and tongue body press-to-palatetasks as candidates for contributing to the reported changes.The tongue tip sliding task appears most likely to be a rangeof motion task and is unlikely to have influenced muscle toneor strength. The tongue press-to-palate task appears similarto the tongue pressure resistance exercises used by others inswallowing rehabilitation (9, 10) and is a plausible exercisefor altering muscle strength and tone in the region of interest.Shepherd and colleagues (5) have demonstrated a direct relationshipbetween tongue protrusion force and maximum inspiratory pressures.Consequently, there seems to be reasonable logic to targetingtongue strength as a potential mechanism for remodeling theupper airway.
Further research is required to confirm whether wakeful nasopharyngealand tongue pressure resistance exercises can be used effectivelyto ameliorate upper airway collapsibility during sleep. Futurestudies will also be needed to determine optimal treatment elements(i.e., load/intensity, frequency, and duration) and to confirmthe hypothesized need for ongoing practice to maintain beneficialtreatment effects.
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Effects of Oropharyngeal Exercises on Patients with Moderate Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome
Kátia C. Guimarães, Luciano F. Drager, Pedro R. Genta, Bianca F. Marcondes, and Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho
AJRCCM 2009 179: 962-966. [Abstract][Full Text]