Sleep Apnea Exercises

Exercises to Improve Sleep Apnea

In this page you will find information about sleep apnea exercises and how you can get a better efficiency in treating obstructive sleep apnea.

Yoga Exercises for Sleep Apnea

Yoga is appropriate for all ages and can greatly reduce stress and improve the quality of sleep. There are breathing and relaxation techniques that will relieve your sleep apnea.

The special type of yoga that promotes sleep is called Yoga Nidra, which in Sanskrit means Sleep. Yoga uses breathing and visualization techniques to help you relax, and it is recommended you do the exercises every night before sleep.

In this video you will see examples of yoga exercises for sleep apnea:

Tongue Exercise for Sleep Apnea

Do this repeatedly and aim to stick your tongue out as far as you possibly can.

Throat Exercises for Sleep Apnea

To do the exercise correctly, make sure your molars on both sides move apart a little, and then touch lightly again. Also notice that your lips are supposed to be closed the whole time.

This exercise is pretty easy on your jaw because you are not actually chewing anything, but you might still feel a little bit sore in the beginning. Just take it easy-maybe chew for only a few seconds in the beginning and then increase the time you exercise.

You can make an "mmm" sound as you chew. This will open the throat better. Making an "mmm" sound is not necessary, it will just give the exercise extra boost.

Playing Didgeridoo to Treat Sleep Apnea

Regular didgeridoo playing is an effective treatment alternative well accepted by patients with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. This might be due to training of the muscles of the upper airways, which control airway dilation and wall stiffening.

Regular playing of a didgeridoo reduces daytime sleepiness and snoring in people with moderate obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and also improves the sleep quality of partners.

The severity of sleep apnea, expressed by the apnoea-hypopnoea index, is also substantially reduced after four months of didgeridoo playing

Singing Exercises for Sleep Apnea

Use different sounds and tunes to focus movement in the throat, especially the soft palate, palatopharyngeal arch, tongue and nasopharynx.

Yawning also uses similar muscles. Try yawning repeatedly for a few minutes to really stretch the muscles. You can do this one anywhere as it’s a silent exercise.

Working out your throat muscles is the same as working out any other muscle in your body. You need to do it regularly in order to see any results.

It won’t happen overnight but gradually over several months you will start to notice that you don’t snore as much as you once did.

These exercises cannot work for everyone. The action of the exercises is to tone lax muscles in the upper throat. They can only help when lax muscles are a significant cause of your sleep apnea.

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Summary of Sleep Apnea Exercises

Yoga for Apnea Syndrome

Tongue Exercises for Sleep Apnea

Throat Exercise for Sleep Apnoea

Didgeridoo for Sleep Apnoea

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