Breathing Re-Education & Airway Support

Our approach focuses on helping patients of all ages retrain and optimize their breathing patterns to support improved function, efficiency, and long-term wellness.

Through personalized breathing exercises, nasal breathing education, and habit modification, we work to establish healthier, more functional breathing patterns. Integrating a whole-body approach and collaboration with myofunctional therapy providers, we aim to support optimal airway function, better sleep, and overall health and vitality.

How Myofunctional Therapy Compliments Other Treatments: 

  • Addresses functional patterns and compensations that may contribute to airway collapse or instability.  

  • Improves function & coordination of the muscles of the tongue, lips, cheeks, throat, and airway 

  • Establishes healthy habits to support: nasal breathing, proper oral rest posture, efficient swallowing, airway stability & long-term treatment success.  

Myofunctional Therapy may improve outcomes when combined with:  

  • OAT: helping patients adapt more comfortably to their appliance while promoting improvement in airway-supportive muscle function 

  • CPAP Therapy: Supporting nasal breathing and improving comfort and compliance 

  • Orthodontic Treatment: Encouraging healthy oral rest postures and muscle function during and after treatment.

  • Tethered Tissue Release: helping retrain muscles and establish proper functin before and after tongue &/or lip tie release procedures. 

  • Airway Expansion Therapies: Supporting long term stability, muscle function and healthy breathing habits 

  • Patients may be asked about nasal breathing, allergies, congestion, mouth breathing, dry mouth, snoring, sleep position, and daytime symptoms. 

  • We will evaluate breathing patterns, oral posture, dental and airway anatomy, and other risk factors that may contribute to poor sleep or airway restriction. 

  • Recommendations may include nasal breathing support, myofunctional therapy, medical referral, sleep testing, oral appliance therapy, or other collaborative care options. 

Patient Expectations