RU2269993C1 - Method for getting rid of snoring - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medicine, in particular, therapeutic physical culture.

SUBSTANCE: method involves doing complex of physical exercises aimed at alternating compression of chest and releasing compressive load therefrom, combined with breathing gymnastics. Inhalations are performed the moment chest is compressed to maximal extent, and expirations are performed the moment compressive load is released therefrom. Short noisy active inhalation through nose is effected alternate with inaudible inhalation through mouth, with 12 physical exercises being done in succession. Each of physical exercises is accompanied with inhalation motions alternate with inhalation through nose and through mouth. Method further involves providing 16 short noisy active inhalations through nose and 16 inaudible inhalations through mouth.

EFFECT: enhanced tonus of soft palate and palatine lingula muscle allowing vibrations of palatine lingula during sleeping to be eliminated.

Description

The invention relates to medicine and can be used to rid a person of snoring.

It is known that snoring occurs in connection with a decrease in muscle tone in the larynx. Often the appearance of snoring in a person is associated with shaking and head injuries, for example, in boxers. At the same time, the tone of the neuromuscular apparatus, which innervates the small tongue, weakens, the soft palate sags, and the small tongue vibrates during sleep, when the central nervous system is inhibited, resulting in snoring. Since the soft palate and small tongue are muscles, and any muscles can be trained to raise their tone, as a result of which the small tongue will cease to vibrate, you can get rid of snoring by doing, for example, certain breathing exercises. With forced nasal breathing, the air stream massages the entire nasopharynx as a whole, including the palatine curtain, small tongue, nasal passages, nasopharyngeal mucosa, trains and strengthens the entire muscles of the nasopharynx. Thus, using breathing exercises aimed at strengthening the above muscle mass of the larynx, you can get rid of snoring.

One of the known analogues of the proposed method is a method of therapeutic sound breathing exercises, aimed, in particular, to cure diseases of the larynx described in Russian patent No. 2159602, A 61 N 1/00, publ. 2000. The well-known method of therapeutic and sound breathing exercises allows you to improve the body, in particular, from diseases of the larynx, by adjusting the ratio of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the tissues, improving trophism and innervation, carrying out psycho-and muscle relaxation. The basis of this known method is the method of respiratory gymnastics according to K.P. Buteiko [See Alternative treatment methods. Breathing according to the Buteyko KP system, Tashkent, 1994]. The known method is characterized by breathing exercises containing long breaths and exhalations, while the primary 3-5 exhalations are accompanied by the sound "HA", and subsequent exhalations, depending on the type of disease, are accompanied by other sounds. So, with diseases of the throat, subsequent exhalations are accompanied by the sound "Y-II."

The known method has a healing effect based on breathing exercises using the above-mentioned sound pronounced by the patient himself, which affects the muscles of the larynx in the form of local vibration massage of organs such as a small tongue and palatine curtain, which allows local improvement of trophism and their invasion.

However, the known method does not give an idea of getting rid of snoring, is aimed at curing the specific diseases indicated in the patent and, as the author indicates, despite its simplicity and accessibility, requires knowledge of anatomy, physiology and general pathology at the level of a medical professional and gives good results in conjunction with traditional medical methods of treatment.

There is also known a method of treating diseases associated with voice loss as a result of diseases, which is based on the respiratory gymnastics of A. N. Strelnikova, described in USSR author's certificate No. 411865, A 61 V 1/00, publ. 1974. A known method is to perform static and dynamic physical exercises, which are aimed at alternating expansion and contraction of the chest, in combination with breathing exercises, accompanied by a sound effect, and during movements that compress the chest, they take an active breath, and when removed from chest compressive load - passive exhalation. Moreover, these movements are carried out with sound exercises. Short “like an injection” breaths, accompanied by a loud “sniffing” of the nose, with a respiratory focus on the sense of smell (rhythmic enhancement of breathing), allow the greatest amount of air to pass through the nose. The produced short breaths with a compressed chest help to massage the muscles of the larynx, increasing their tone.

However, in the known method, the training of these muscles is not active and fast enough. The muscles of the larynx receive an insufficiently active load - they are not massaged enough by the air stream. Therefore, its strengthening and development is slow, and the effect of getting rid of snoring is protracted as a result of insufficient systematization of the muscular load of the above soft palate and small tongue.

Closest to the proposed is a method of treating diseases of the upper respiratory tract, described in Russian patent No. 2214812, A 61 N 1/00, publ. 2003, which consists in combining a set of physical exercises with breathing exercises by A.N. Strelnikova, characterized by a short, noisy, active inhalation through the nose and passive exhalation through the mouth. The specified known method consists in a combination of physical and respiratory exercises aimed at curing diseases of the upper respiratory tract due to expansion and contraction of the chest. A sequence of different head movements (turns, bends, circular movements) and body movements (turns, bends, squats) with simultaneous hand movements aimed at compressing the chest, in combination with breathing exercises, characterized by a short noisy active breath through the nose with the most compressed chest cell and exhaling in a passive mode when removing physical activity from the chest, allows you to exercise physical effect on the muscles of the upper respiratory tract, including the soft palate and m Lenka tongue, raising the tone of the latter muscle.

However, presented in the known method, the complex of physical and breathing exercises does not give an idea of the need to perform certain exercises in a certain sequence, which can increase the tone of the muscles of the soft palate and small tongue, which will eliminate the vibration of the latter during sleep during the inhibition of the central nervous system and relieve person from snoring.

The proposed method of getting rid of snoring is a certain set of physical exercises in combination with respiratory gymnastics by A.N. Strelnikova, which is characterized by a short noisy active breath through the nose and passive expiration of the mouth. However, in the proposed method, said inhalation through the nose must be alternated with a soft, almost inaudible, inhalation through the mouth, which is accompanied, as it were, by a barely audible whisper with the sound “AX”, while exhalation after each inhalation is carried out absolutely passively through the mouth. At the same time, it is necessary to do physical exercises with the help of the head, arms, legs and body, which will allow you to concentrate and intensify the effect of the air stream on the muscles of the above soft palate and small tongue during inhalation and exhalation, thereby increasing the massaging effect of these organs and increasing their tone the muscles. The practice of using respiratory gymnastics by A.N. Strelnikova in the process of curing many diseases has shown that, in combination with the following set of physical exercises, a person quickly gets rid of snoring during sleep. The specified complex is a sequential implementation of the following physical exercises.

1. Starting position: stand straight, hands are clenched into fists and pressed to the stomach at the level of the belt. At the moment of inspiration, sharply (push) lower your fists to the floor, as if pushing up from it, while your shoulders are tense, your arms are straight and stretch to the floor. Then, while exhaling, the hands are returned to their original position at the level of the belt, the shoulders are relaxed.

2. Starting position: stand straight, legs slightly narrower than shoulder width. At the moment of inhalation, do a light, springy squat while simultaneously turning the body to the right and grasping the body with the left hand at the level of the belt. When exhaling, return to the starting position. To do a similar exercise with turning the body to the left and grasping the body with the right hand. In this case, the feet should not be torn off the floor.

3. Starting position: stand straight, arms bent at the elbows and raised to shoulder level. At the moment of inhalation, the hands move parallel towards each other with a subsequent embrace of the shoulders, while the head must be folded back, as if taking a breath from the ceiling. When exhaling, return to the starting position.

4. Starting position: stand straight, legs slightly narrower than shoulder width. At the moment of inhalation, turn your head to the right. When exhaling, return to the starting position and, practically without lingering in it, turn your head to the left, taking another breath. When performing this exercise, it is necessary that the neck is not strained.

5. Starting position: stand straight, legs slightly narrower than shoulder width. At the moment of inspiration, slightly tilt your head to the right shoulder. When exhaling, return to the starting position and, practically without lingering in it, slightly tilt your head to the left shoulder, taking another breath. When doing this exercise, look straight ahead.

6. Starting position: stand straight, legs slightly narrower than shoulder width. At the moment of inspiration, slightly tilt your head forward. When exhaling, return to the starting position and, practically without lingering in it, slightly tilt your head back, taking another breath. When exhaling, return to the starting position.

7. Starting position: stand straight, feet shoulder width apart. Perform circular movements (rotation) of the head from right to left, while inhalation must be carried out when the head is at a lower point.

8. Starting position: stand straight, feet shoulder width apart. Perform circular movements (rotation) of the head from left to right, while inhalation must be carried out when the head is at a lower point.

9. Starting position: stand straight, arms along the torso, put the left foot forward (the right one is bent at the knee and put back on the toe, the weight of the body is on the left foot). At the time of inhalation, carry out a springy squat on the left leg, slightly bending it at the knee. Return to the starting position, exhaling, and immediately transferring the weight of the body to the right leg, perform a springy squat on it with simultaneous inhalation, after which, while exhaling, return to the starting position and carry out the subsequent transfer of body weight to the left leg, etc. d.

10. Repeat the exercise according to claim 9, changing the position of the legs: the right leg in front, the left leg in the back.

11. Starting position: stand straight, legs slightly narrower than shoulder width. At the moment of inhalation, raise the left leg to the abdomen level, bending it at the knee (the toe of the left leg must be pulled down), while doing a springy squat on the right leg, slightly bending it at the knee. Return to starting position by exhaling. To do the same, changing the position of the legs: raise the right, squatting on the left.

12. Starting position: stand straight, legs slightly narrower than shoulder width. At the moment of inspiration, take the left leg back (as if slapping itself with the heel on the buttock), bending it in the knee, while doing a springy squat on the right leg, slightly bending it in the knee. Return to starting position by exhaling. To do the same, changing the position of the legs: take the right one back, crouching on the left.

Each of the exercises indicated in items 1-12 should be done with the production of 32 physical movements, and alternating breaths through the nose and mouth, i.e. it is necessary to do each of these physical exercises with 16 active noisy breaths in the nose and 16 soft, almost inaudible breaths in the mouth.

The above set of physical exercises in combination with the indicated breathing exercises increases the load on the muscles of the larynx, activating an air jet massage of the muscles of the soft palate and small tongue, strengthening them and increasing their tone, thereby eliminating the vibration of the small tongue during sleep and saving a person from snoring.

It should be noted that the above set of physical exercises does not require special physical preparation, is simple to perform, and is accessible to people of almost any age.

The presented method of getting rid of snoring was tested at the Center for Respiratory Gymnastics. A.N. Strelnikova, City Clinical Hospital No. 50 of Moscow and the Central Tuberculosis Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in people of various ages with different durations of possession of this disease and showed good results.

It should be noted that the rate of getting rid of snoring, depending on the general condition of the patient, is different, but, as a rule, getting rid of snoring occurs already on the 7-15th day, while patients used the proposed method twice a day: morning and evening.

Claims (1)

A way to get rid of snoring, which consists in combining respiratory gymnastics, including a short noisy active breath through the nose and passive exhalation through the mouth with a set of physical exercises performed by movements of the hands, head, legs and body aimed at exerting physical effect on the chest by alternately compressing it and removing from it a compressive load, and inhalations are carried out at the moment of maximum compression of the chest, and exhalations are performed at the moment of removing the compressive load from it, characterized in that the short I take an active breath through the nose, alternating it with an inaudible breath through the mouth; moreover, 12 physical exercises described in the description are performed sequentially, each of which is accompanied by 32 movements with alternating inspiration through the nose and mouth, while 16 short noisy active breaths are carried out by the nose and 16 inaudible breaths in the mouth.