Mouth exercises

vermont54
vermont54 Member Posts: 11
in Head and Neck Cancer #1

After surgery in upper jaw area (Trigonal area) mouth no longer opens fully. Any exercises to widen openiing back to normal?

Comments

  • donfoo
    donfoo Member Posts: 1,773 Member
    #2
    therabite or similar

    There are devices that will stretch your mouth open. This thins is expensive to me and a rubber band and a stack of popsicle sticks would do just as well. Just adjust the number of sticks to create some tension and slip in another after a bit. Does the same thing and keeps 400 bucks in your pocket. I mean $399, cause the sticks and rubber run a buck. LOL

  • hwt
    hwt Member Posts: 2,328 Member
    #3
    donfoo said:

    therabite or similar

    There are devices that will stretch your mouth open. This thins is expensive to me and a rubber band and a stack of popsicle sticks would do just as well. Just adjust the number of sticks to create some tension and slip in another after a bit. Does the same thing and keeps 400 bucks in your pocket. I mean $399, cause the sticks and rubber run a buck. LOL

    Tongue depressors

    I got free tongue depressors instead of popsicle sticks :-) My doc at Mayo said to begin by stretching but not to point of being painful. I tend to do mine while driving.

  • hlrowe
    hlrowe Member Posts: 80
    #4
    Speech pathologist

    Have your doctor order up a speech pathologist. They can show you many exercises. Worked wonders for me when I was in rad tx.

Discussion Boards