Facial Exercise And The Medical Community

The medical community concurs with Cynthia Rowland, facial exercises are an appropriate modality for treatment of many orofacial dysfunctions. Chances are almost every family will deal with either a stroke or other catastrophic muscle debilitating illness, trauma or injury usually, this produces an inability to adequately formulate and articulate words and phrases. Most likely, these patients will require certain retraining from a speech pathologist or an orofacial myologist to strengthen the lips, tongue and facial muscles.

There are many conditions that can be treated with facial retraining; thumb suckers, those who experience swallowing problems, open bite and tongue protrusion can be successfully treated with orofacial myology therapies, orthodontics and other occupational modalities
Orofacial therapy is primarily facial exercise that has been proven to alleviate the horrors of cosmetic surgical failures, aid orthodontic cases, Bells Palsy, Down Syndrome, and Facial Muscle Paralysis and so on. Facial exercise provides regained balanced symmetry to restore the face as it was before; this is very exciting information because in the past, what was done with surgery, can usually be accomplished with facial exercise.

One facial exercise client described how allergies had caused under eye puffiness and swelling; this caused him to look angry and tired. After just a few days of using certain facial exercise techniques, he wrote to say his breathing had dramatically improved and as a bonus, the swelling had decreased so he looked and felt better.

Facial exercise can also be used cosmetically. Rather than opt for a surgical procedure for treatment of a sagging face, facial exercise can provide much needed lifting, toning and strengthening of the face and neck. Exercise for the face produces the best possible facial appearance, altering facial expression in just minutes a day in the privacy of ones own home. The results can be startling and in fact, obtaining phenomenal results is very simple as the muscles rejuvenate and skin becomes revitalized with oxygenation. The stimulated cells thrive with increased activity that facial exercise provides.

Elective surgery is still risky as complications may arise; theres usually loss of feeling or sensation for quite some time after the procedure and sometimes the results may be disappointing. With exercise the muscles and skin lift, tone and tighten restoring the face. Most facial exercise users believe they look years younger than those who have had face lifts. In fact, facial exercisers look better and better while surgical recipients are thinking when will I have to do this again?
Facial muscle disorders that compromise appearance and function can be treated to provide the best possible facial appearance and better self-esteem for every user. Whether your need for facial exercise is medical or cosmetic, your face will enjoy the health benefits of rejuvenating, strength building movements.

Cynthia Rowland is widely recognized as an expert in all natural facial fitness with over thirty years experience in health & beauty related fields. She has appeared on The View, Fit TV, HGTV and other popular shows. This author, speaker and television personality is leading the crusade to keep men and women looking vibrantly younger through natural techniques without spending their children's inheritance. Cynthia Rowland, Anti-aging ExpertI Save Faceshttp://www.rejenuve.com/FacialMagicSL.htm

The Art Of Manifesting Abundance In Your Business And In Your Life

I had the opportunity today to watch The Secret again. I've watched it a few times, and each time it speaks to me in a new way. Today was more of a deeper realization of the original impact, if that makes any sense. I realized that I have fallen back to some old patterns, to some old ways of thinking and my business was not growing as rapidly as a result. We all get into ruts, and The Secret to manifesting Abundance in Business, is to recognize when we are getting into one and IMMEDIATELY change the thought pattern. What I do, is say "STOP!" out loud, to abruptly STOP the destructive or negative thought. I then will state something that I am grateful for. Those statements generate feelings of gratitude which manifests more to be grateful for. I believe this with all my being because I have seen it work in my life.

The MasterKey System and Mentors In Motion training gives us real life application for applying The Secret, and discovering those programs along with my business team are among the things that I am most grateful for in my business today. I feel such warmth and gratitude when I think of Jim Gras, the first mentor who saw my potential and showed it to me. What is key here, is that he showed it to me. When I think of what Jim has done for me, it really isn't about teaching me how to market online. Sure he's showed me a few tricks, but in all honesty what he really did was believe in me. His belief in me made me believe, and as a result I have manifested results. I am a different person today because of attracting these incredible people into my life. One of the most important things you can do to manifest abundance in your business is to have a sense of gratitude. I am grateful for my friends and associates on my business team, and in my Veretekk marketing community.

The Power of Gratitude

Gratitude is a very powerful emotion because when we "feel" grateful, we cannot help but feel good. As a child, my parents and grandparents, like most, used guilt and fear as primary methods of discipline. While their intention was good (we all know what the road to hell was paved in right?), it was destructive and led to some residual negative feelings. For example, I was a very picky eater (still am). If I had a dollar for every time I heard about starving children in 3rd world countries, I could feed every one of them!

The intent was to teach me gratitude, and that gratitude was supposed to make me eat my cabbage (or liver, yes, my parents made me eat liver). It truly didn't make the cabbage any more attractive to me, but it did make me feel sadness for the starving children who WOULD be grateful for something that I was not only not grateful for, but resentful of! It made me feel like a horrible human being. Sometimes I would gag the food down, but certainly not happily.

Guilt and gratitude do not belong in the same sentence. You cannot teach gratitude. As parents and grand parents we can help our children to recognize and express their gratitude. I think it borders on abusive to burden children with such problems as world hunger. Children should not be taught to be grateful for things they have BECAUSE others do not. True gratitude brings about feelings of joy, not guilt. When we are truly grateful, we feel blissful and blessed. It is difficult to feel blessed for a having a plate full of food with an image of a starving child in our head!

If you are struggling in your business or in your personal life, I urge you to STOP whatever you are thinking. STOP and think about something or someone you have for which you are grateful. It be something very small. In fact, it is the small things, and an appreciation of those small things that accumulate into a life time of memories and joy.

Karen Weir, is a full time internet marketer marketing health and wellness products. Affiliated with Mentors in Motion and Veretekk, she is able to provide comprehensive training and personal coaching in all aspects of marketing.

Botox, Surgical Decompression and Migraine Headache Relief

The treatment of migraine headache patients by Botox injections has been shown to be effective in specific patients who have identifiable triggers of the supraorbital and supratrochlear, zygomaticotemporal, greater occipital, and septal trigeminal nerves. The temporary relief from Botox has led to the concept that relieving pressure on the nerves by muscle resection (surgical decompression) can subsequently be effective and may provide a more long-term solution to the migraine problem. Since Botox relaxes muscles around the nerve, the concept of nerve decompression through muscle resection is a logical transition. The use of Botox then becomes a qualifier to determine if nerve decompression is likely to be successful.

Surgical decompression of migraines, pioneered by plastic surgeon Dr. Guyuron in Cleveland, has shown that a high percentage of carefully-chosen patients may benefit. (> 90%) The key here is...careful patient selection. One must work with a neurologist who refers the patient based on their trigger points for their migraine and their success with Botox injections. On average, most migraine patients experienced improvement at one year follow-up, needing less medications for management. While some patients do experience a 'cure', this is not the majority of migraine sufferers. A recent publication in the July 2008 issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery by Dr. Poggi of Wichita confirms these results in their own reported experience. One of the most interesting findings of their study was that two-thirds of the patients felt that surgery offered better relief than Botox injections and, even in those patients who had results no better than Botox, stated that they would go through surgery again..

Surgical decompression involves removing muscle that intertwines or lays against the nerve. In the frontal area, this can be done endoscopically (like an endoscopic brow lift) from a remote scalp location or directly through an upper eyelid incision. As of now, this is a surgeon's choice and the evidence that one method is superior over the other remains to be conclusively proven. Going through the eyelid approach probably allows better control of the amount of muscle removed and the potential for inadvertent nerve transection or avulsion. For the zygomaticotemporal, greater occipital and septal trigeminal nerves, a direct open approach is used as this is done in the hairline or inside the nose.

For those patients whose migraine headaches are of sufficient frequency and are not well controlled by medication, surgical decompression of trigger points offers potential for improving their lives.

Dr Barry Eppley is a board-certified plastic surgeon in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana at Clarian Health Systems. ( http://www.eppleyplasticsurgery.com ) He writes a daily blog on plastic surgery, spa therapies, and medical skin care at http://www.exploreplasticsurgery.com