| Tired of hearing from your spouse that you're | | | | blockages can make snoring go away. |
| keeping them awake at night? Workout with a | | | | When you exercise any muscle, it becomes |
| set of stop snoring exercises and see how well a | | | | tighter, more firm, and compact. It takes up less |
| trim throat and neck can help you end the misery | | | | space. Smaller muscles in your breathing airway |
| once and for all. | | | | mean that air is less constricted. |
| Only a few years ago, a doctor in Scotland | | | | Vocal coaches assign a regular routine of |
| believed she'd discovered a natural way to help | | | | exercises to their students in order to help them |
| her patients stop snoring. By playing a musical | | | | strengthen throat muscles. This opens up their |
| instrument that resembled a recorder, she noted | | | | airway, allowing stronger, better sound to be |
| that snoring seemed to diminish. She wrote a | | | | produced. |
| book about her discovery and continues her | | | | Stop snoring exercises do the same thing and |
| practice as a sleep specialist today. | | | | have been shown to have a significant impact on |
| Several studies have since been conducted which | | | | reducing the severity and frequency of snoring, |
| support her opinion, the latest being published in | | | | even in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. |
| May of 2009. What researchers wanted to know | | | | Reaching the right muscle group is easy with the |
| was whether or not these exercises would really | | | | right sets of stop snoring exercises. Targeting the |
| make a difference. | | | | back of your throat, doing things like an extended |
| You see, when you play a musical instrument, you | | | | yawn, exaggerated chewing, and pressing your |
| use jaw and throat muscles in a way that you do | | | | tongue to the roof of your mouth give you the |
| not use as often when speaking. Have you ever | | | | type of workout you need. |
| gone out to pull weeds in the backyard and | | | | As with any exercise program, you need a |
| woken up sore the next day because you used | | | | number of different exercises to get the best |
| muscles you don't use regularly? These throat | | | | results. Targeting just one area of the muscle |
| exercises work along those lines. It's a workout | | | | group may not be sufficient but targeting all the |
| for the muscle groups which line the airway | | | | muscles supporting that upper airway can result in |
| through which your breathing passes. Blockages | | | | major improvements. |
| of that passage cause snoring. Eliminating those | | | | |