Health News : Throat Muscles Relieve Sleep Apnea

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“It was commonly thought among doctors that strengthening and toning oropharyngeal muscles would have no benefit to the patient during sleep, but a recent study showed that didgeridoo playing helped decrease snoring and OSA,” study investigator Dr. Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho of the sleep laboratory at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, said in an American Thoracic Society news release. “This was a change of paradigm, and indicated that not everything you do during the day is lost during sleep.”

“The muscles of the upper airways are extremely complex, and the mechanisms leading to OSA are far from being well understood,” Lorenzi-Filho said. “A strong muscle may be working on the wrong direction and not necessarily helping to open the airways. The overall set of exercises we tested target the correct physiology of the upper airway and should promote remodeling of the upper airways.”

He said the researchers were unsure exactly how the exercises caused the change and if all of them were equally effective, but suggested further research would explore these questions. Via

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