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[Muscle function therapy of the orofacial area]
Insights
Pediatricians frequently encounter children with oral and speech issues. Myofunctional therapy offers a structured approach to managing these conditions, integrating with broader pediatric care.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Medicine
- Speech-Language Pathology
- Oro-facial Myology
Context:
- Pediatricians manage diverse conditions including motor disorders, behavioral issues, and oral/speech impairments.
- These issues often co-occur with other pathologies, complicating diagnosis and treatment.
- Multidisciplinary team-work is frequently essential for effective pediatric care.
Purpose:
- To present a specific myofunctional therapy concept for oro-facial dysfunctions.
- To detail the application of this therapy in pediatric patients with specific conditions.
- To outline the therapy's characteristics, principles, and integration into complex pediatric treatment.
Summary:
- The study introduces a myofunctional therapy approach for oro-facial system disorders.
- This therapy was evaluated in pediatric patients exhibiting dysgnathias, dyslalias, deviated swallowing, and habitual mouth-breathing.
- Key features, origins, components, methodology, and its role in comprehensive pediatric therapy are discussed.
Impact:
- Provides a structured therapeutic framework for common pediatric oro-facial and speech disorders.
- Highlights the importance of specialized myofunctional therapy within pediatric practice.
- Offers insights into managing complex cases involving combined pathologies and dysfunctions.
Abstract:
Many disabilities, motorial disorders, tics, behaviour disturbances, habits, greater or smaller dysfunctions in the oral system and speech and voice damages concern the paediatrician in his daily practice. Very often these problems appear in combination or together with other pathologies, sometimes within difficult complex diseases. Different symptoms are mentioned helpful to the paediatrician. Often must be used diagnosis and therapy of different branches in a connected team-work. The demonstrated conception of the myofunctional therapy in the oro-facial system developed by the two authors, has to be seen in this respect. This conception has been tested on patients with dysgnathias, dyslalias and the two oro-facial dysfunctions deviate swallowing and habitual mouthbreathing. Characteristic features of this conception, its sources, its elements, its course, its methodical principles and its position in a paediatric complex therapy are demonstrated.