Exercise in the early stages of nasopharyngeal cancer

The incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is getting higher and higher. So how should patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma be cared for in life? Experts introduced us to the exercise health exercises for nasopharyngeal carcinoma and suggested that patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma should exercise regularly. It is very beneficial to the recovery of the disease. Let's introduce the exercise methods in the early stage of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

(1) Tea rinse:

Rinse your mouth with warm tea after each meal, alternating between cheek puffing and sucking, gargle thoroughly for 1-3 minutes to remove food debris between teeth, achieve the effect of cleaning teeth and maintaining oral hygiene.

(2) Teeth tapping:

Gently tap or clench the upper and lower teeth 2-3 times a day, about 100 times each time, and finally lick the periodontium with the tip of the tongue 3-5 times. This can strengthen the teeth, fully exercise the chewing muscles, and prevent their fibrosis.

(3) Swallowing saliva:

Swallowing frequently to swallow saliva can stimulate saliva secretion, moisten the throat, relieve dryness of the mouth and tongue, and exercise the tongue, teeth and cheek muscles to prevent deterioration of oral function.

(4) Puffing cheeks:

Close your lips and blow air outwards to make your cheeks puff up. Place the thumbs of both hands on the puffy cheeks and gently massage the cheeks and temporomandibular joints in a clockwise direction to prevent difficulty in opening your mouth caused by fibrosis of the temporomandibular joints and the surrounding muscle tissue.

(5) Tongue flick:

Open your mouth slightly and let your tongue move in your mouth. By reciting the movements of your tongue in your mouth, you can exercise its flexibility and prevent the tongue muscles from atrophying and function deteriorating.

(6) Shaking your head:

It can prevent neck tightness and limited neck movement caused by fibrosis of the neck joint muscles.

After learning the functional exercise nursing of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, I believe it will be of great help to patients. In addition, if this disease occurs, patients should not have any mental burden. Early treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma has a good effect on the control of the disease.