Simple Self-Assessment for Impaired Sleep Quality

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Think of myofunctional therapy as physical therapy, but only focusing on mouth, tongue, and face muscles. Sarah Hornsby—a registered dental hygienist and orofacial myofunctional therapist—explains how muscular imbalances in these areas may result in breathing problems, which have a great impact on our sleep quality, cognitive function, joint health, and energy levels.

In the podcast, she offers a simple 30-second assessment you can do to determine if you’re sleeping efficiently throughout the night, along with tips on how to improve your breathing for better health. Listen in now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
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0:30.6	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or
0:36.1	treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information
0:39.6	without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today I spoke with
0:45.3	Sarah Hornsby on the topic of what is a self-assessment you can easily and quickly do to see if
0:51.9	you're at risk for some sort of upper airway issue that could be
0:56.3	interfering with your sleep and potentially driving things like fatigue, brain fog,
1:02.4	enjoying muscle pain, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, atrial fibrillation, having a hard time
1:07.9	swallowing pills, teeth grinding, dry mouth, snoring, or even mouth breathing.
1:13.7	So I wanted to make sure to equip you all with, again, a simple self-assessment or really a couple simple self-assessment.
1:22.5	You could do this in 30 seconds, really, and tip you off, should you be thinking about there could be a muscular imbalance
1:32.6	in your palate upper airway that could be causing you to not breathe efficiently
1:39.8	while you're sleeping and therefore driving all of these problems. So we start off the episode with
1:48.0	that self-assessment. We also detail the signs and symptoms that I just went through.
1:54.9	Additionally, we discuss structure versus function, which maps on beautifully to one of the concepts
2:00.6	we've repeatedly discussed on the
2:02.6	podcast, which is do not over-interpret lab testing. We've discussed what is the best test
2:10.3	that can be used here and some of the best therapies. And one thing I just want to weave in here is the more of these discussions we have,
2:21.9	I try to tie in for you how this fits into our clinical model so that you have the confidence
2:29.7	that if there is a problem here that you think you may have, and then you're saying, okay,
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