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Speech therapy massage. Prices, reviews, ratings

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Speech therapy massage is a corrective and pedagogical intervention that is used to correct severe speech disorders.
Speech therapy massage is a corrective and pedagogical intervention that is used to correct severe speech disorders.

General information

The technique is effective because it allows you to normalize the pronunciation side of speech, the emotional state of a person, improves the state of speech breathing and voice.

Practical experience of working with people, which speech disorders have been identified, shows that massage therapy significantly reduces the time of correctional work.

Procedure

Preparation

Before the procedure, the speech therapist determines the state of muscle tone of the lips and tongue, neck, face, upper shoulder girdle. All this is established during the examination by palpation and observation.

Speech therapy massage

The doctor performs gentle stroking in different directions. Then acts on the longitudinal muscles, starting from the root of the tongue to its tip. After that - from the center to the edges, on the transverse muscles of the tongue. The doctor makes circular and spiral movements, patting over the entire surface of the tongue. He presses on the longitudinal muscles, massages the frenulum of the tongue, while the direction of movements is from top to bottom. After this, a massage is performed with rubbing movements through a gauze napkin.

Rehabilitation period

This procedure does not have a special rehabilitation period.

Indications

Speech therapy massage is an integral part of the complex of medical and pedagogical rehabilitation systems for children, adolescents and adults who suffer from various speech disorders. Indications for the procedure:

  • dysarthria, including its latent forms;
  • rhinolalia;
  • voice disorder;
  • stuttering.

Contraindications

Contraindications are:

  • infectious diseases;
  • skin diseases;
  • stomatitis;
  • herpes on the lip;
  • conjunctivitis.

The procedure is performed with great caution in children with convulsions, especially if the child screams, cries, breaks free from hands, has a blue nasolabial "triangle" or chin tremor is noticeable.

Complications

Consequences do not appear.

Prices and clinics


Speech therapy massage will be performed by a speech therapist in a speech therapy center, clinic or hospital. You can find out the cost of speech therapy massage on our medical portal.

26 Apr 2023, 05:23
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