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Does the FaceFormer® help with UARS?
Question
In contrast to classical sleep apnea, in the “Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS)” (see Wikipedia), rather unfavourable anatomical conditions are responsible for the narrowing of the upper airways. I would be interested to know if you know if the FaceFormer can also help with UARS.
Answer
Thank you for your interest in FaceFormer Therapy. The method has proven to be extremely effective in numerous scientific studies and in patients worldwide.
The view that in UARS, the anatomical constrictions in the mouth and throat area alone are the cause is a significant limitation. In UARS, the deviating constrictions are clearly visible, but it is the flaccidity of the mouth/throat area tissue and the dysfunctional motor pattern deviations that generate the actual problem, the breathing stops or snoring. The morphological dimensions in the oropharyngeal cavity may be hereditary on the one hand, but on the other hand they may also have developed as a result of dysfunction. Regardless of the cause, i.e. form or function, compensatory mechanisms develop which, without exception, must be corrected to achieve an improvement. Still, symptomatic therapies, which unfortunately are even called the “gold standard”, forget that they are always only a substitute for causal treatments. That is why, for example, patients generally use their CPAP device until the end of their lives and protrusion splints at least until the temporomandibular joints are damaged. In the first case, flaccid tissue is blown aside (air splinting), which may be successful under direct application, but the functions and tension of muscles and tissue gradually develop even more negatively than they already are.
Causal treatments, on the other hand, strengthen the entire system until the problem is eliminated. FaceFormer Therapy belongs to the causal treatments and is an exercise therapy. There are no alternatives and these are the only methods that can change movement patterns and strengthen the system in the long term.
In any case, FaceFormer training must also be carried out for UARS. Not only is there a tissue tightening, but a completely new movement pattern, negative pressure in the mouth/throat, nasal breathing, etc. The anatomical narrowing of the airways does not prevent breathing, but simplifies the actual cause, dysfunctional patterns with accompanying flaccidity, to successfully enforce the disorder.
So regardless of whether snoring, sleep apnea syndrome or UARS, FaceFormer Therapy must always be used. It is probably the only therapy that effectively influences the causes and – if used regularly and correctly – leads to success.