What is nasopharyngeal carcinoma rehabilitation exercise

Nowadays, many people have become patients with tumor diseases, among which nasopharyngeal carcinoma has the highest incidence rate. As a disease doctor, it is best to detect and treat it early, so as not to let the disease develop further. At the same time as the treatment, some scientific care should be done. This is the functional exercise care for nasopharyngeal carcinoma that we are going to talk about today. Please see below.

A malignant tumor that occurs in the nasopharyngeal mucosa. Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hunan and other places in China are high-incidence areas, with more males than females. Most of the patients are middle-aged, and there are also teenagers who suffer from the disease. The cause is related to racial susceptibility (yellow people are more likely to suffer from the disease than white people), genetic factors and Epstein-Barr virus infection. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a highly invasive tumor that invades deep structures in the early stage. The nasopharynx causes different syndromes due to different ways of spreading: ascending type (type A) extension, descending type (type D) metastasis, ascending and descending type (type AD).

(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 inflate your cheeks. Place your thumbs on the inflated cheeks and gently massage your cheeks and temporomandibular joints in a clockwise direction to prevent difficulty in opening your mouth caused by fibrosis of the temporomandibular joints and surrounding muscle tissues.

(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, we know how to take care of our patients in life. 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. This patient should not worry about the usual personal hygiene and should be careful not to eat some irritating foods.