Villasanta Lab

08/11/2024

When we don't breathe with proper diaphragmatic technique, whether due to a restriction, stress, etc., we over-use our secondary respiratory muscles in the neck and shoulders. One muscle that gets caught up in that pattern is the omohyoid. When overworked or restricted, the omohyoid can create quite a lot of tightness and spasm in the neck, especially affecting side-to-side movement.

08/11/2024

✨"This is a great visual! Fascia is fascinating and it is connected from our tongue to our toes!

👉🏼There is no separation in the body, and one part always affects another part in some way.
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👉🏼The tongue’s connection to the toes through myofascial structures, also called soft tissues.
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👉🏼This helps us understand the whole body effects of tethered oral tissues
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👉🏼The tongue doesn’t function in isolation or alone, these connections reveal the interdigitated movement system and need to address more than the mouth when babies have oral restrictions, Torticollis, postural asymmetries, tightly curled toes and more."
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Original credit to: Tom Meyers LMT, NCTMB, ARP
Credit: Michelle Emanuel OTR/L

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