Exercise for Small Mouth Opening in Scleroderma

This video is a short one of 2 minutes, explaining the simple exercises for patients with Scleroderma where mouth opening is restricted and small.
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The exercises and techniques discussed in this video are simple, easy, and require any help from any other person. A patient can do them on their own, comfortably.

So first of all it's very important that you lubricate your lips. Get them nice and moist with
some nice Lip balm Or Vaseline Or coconut oil Or something along those lines to just help protect the delicate skin there.

1. For the first exercise, take your hands across your arms at your wrist and just gently insert your thumbs at the corners of your mouth and just gently stretch. Now, you don't want to feel any pain or discomfort. You just want a gentle stretching feeling and just hold it like that for a little bit however one is comfortable with and this is one exercise you can do while you're sitting on the couch or when you're in the shower.

2. For the second exercise what you need is a stack of popsicle/ icecream sticks you see at the doctor's office and take a stack of them as wide as you can open your jaw. Rubber band them together and stick them in between your teeth. And again, there should be no pain or discomfort.
What is required is, just a gentle stretching, and when that no longer stretches anymore take another Popsicle stick and insert it into the stack, just to get that general stretch back. And this nice and slowly will help you open your mouth and jaw a little bit wider.

And there are tools that can help with these as well, But these are just ways that you can do it for free on your own.

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