Throat Exercises
Exercises that help strengthen and tone the muscles in the throat can help alleviate snoring and, in some cases, actually get rid of it altogether. Here are three simples way of improving throat strength/toning throat muscles:
- Take a pencil and hold it between the teeth for up to 5 minutes. The grip should be firm, but not painful at all.
- Take your finger and gently press against your chin for a few minutes (no more than 3).
- Push your tongue against your lower row of teeth for about five minutes.
These exercises should be performed just before bedtime, and no strain should occur. It should not at all be a painful experience! The goal is simply to retrain some of the throat muscles that have lost their tone through a variety of factors, including age itself. Any or all of the above exercises should help tighten the neck muscles, and thus lead to less airway vibration (and subsequent snoring).
Additional exercises that help tone the overall body can also help with snoring. There are a number of factors, however, that will determine if the fat that has gathered around the neck is actually going to reduce; if an individual is genetically predisposed to acquire fat in that area, it could last for quite a while.
However, some improvement in muscle tone should lead to an improvement in snoring; at least, perhaps, in the reduction of noise. While this may not be the ideal solution, it can be a step in the right direction.
Throat Muscle Toners
Throat muscle toners help strengthen the muscles in the throat, thus reducing some of the loose skin and hanging tissue that can lead to vibration, and hence, lead to snoring.
These throat muscle toners generally aim to achieve the following:
- restore throat muscle strength
- keep the air channel open
- allow the air to flow to the lungs without any obstruction
Muscle toners are, like most non-surgical devices, un-medicated, non-habit forming, and generally inexpensive. Throat muscle toners come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and even colors to suit individual preferences and requirements.
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