Symptomatic therapy relieves signs of illness
Symptomatic treatments are widespread in medicine today, although the connections to the causes of health problems are often overlooked. Symptoms, however, are merely the effects of an underlying problem. It is not uncommon for symptomatic treatments to create more problems than existed before, because they lack any connection to the causes of the illness.
Causal therapy tackles the trigger
Treating the cause is the opposite of treating symptoms. It targets the actual triggers of a disorder. Once the causes have been eliminated, the symptoms disappear too. That is why causal therapy alone is the ideal approach in the treatment of illnesses. By comparison, symptomatic treatments are secondary stopgap solutions.
No symptom is without a cause.
Specialisation in medicine
Specialisation in medicine makes it hard to recognise the seemingly very different connections that fall within the scope of other medical disciplines: the orthopaedist does not look at crooked teeth or a slack soft palate, the ENT doctor does not look at body posture and the pulmonologist does not look at ear problems. Doctors treat the abnormalities they find using their own specialist knowledge. Accompanying signs that would reveal the all-important causal relationships (causes), however, go unnoticed.
FaceFormer® therapy takes a special approach
The FaceFormer therapy method corrects disorders of dominant basic functions such as breathing and swallowing. As a causal therapy, it eliminates the symptoms of health problems at their root. The aim of FaceFormer therapy is to correct the actual triggers of disorders sustainably through a special exercise programme. It systematically targets those dysfunctions that give rise to individual signs of illness (symptoms) in the first place.
FaceFormer therapy targets the causes of numerous disease symptoms.
Features of FaceFormer® exercise therapy
Dysfunctions cause disorders throughout life
Symptoms resulting from functional disorders differ in type and severity in every person affected. Complaints that patients take seriously for the first time, e.g. tinnitus, dizziness, jaw joint pain or breathing pauses, are usually triggered by the “weakest link in a functional chain”.
Long before that, however, usually as early as early childhood, the effects of the dysfunctions had already presented themselves as disorders: the development of dental and jaw misalignments, frequent middle ear infections, colds and nasal polyps in children are some striking examples. Later in life, it is ear and hearing problems (noise sensitivity, sudden hearing loss, tinnitus, patulous Eustachian tubes), dizziness, neck tension, pain, snoring, sleep apnoea and other health problems that are caused by disorders which are only very rarely taken into account.
On closer questioning and examination, however, it becomes clear that patients have repeatedly had to deal with such problems at different stages of their lives. The connection to their acute problems, however, was never considered.
The info poster “Funktionsraum Mund” (The Mouth as a Functional Space) on Cranio-Cervical Dysfunction Syndrome (CCDS) is available, together with other materials, in the Dr. Berndsen Shop .
Breathing and swallowing – essential functional systems in focus
FaceFormer therapy concentrates on the two most vital functional systems: breathing and swallowing. Disorders of these functions cause numerous illnesses, which manifest themselves in various symptoms. FaceFormer therapy brings about the correction and biological stabilisation of the system and the elimination of the syndrome.
Breathing and swallowing – of course we do both constantly, otherwise we would no longer be alive. It is therefore difficult to understand why these self-evident functions, which run automatically from birth, can be so disturbed that they cause abnormalities and health problems, often as early as early childhood and then again and again throughout life. The explanation is that faulty movements and postures can either be congenital or acquired through external, mostly early-childhood influences. Dysfunctions develop with which the organ system can only achieve its functional goal (swallowing, breathing) by means of compensatory adaptations (evasive movements). Through the constant, identical repetition of posture and movement patterns, these are learned and stored in the person's motor memory. It makes no difference whether what is presented to the memory is wrong or right. Whereas biological functions do not cause disorders, learned faulty movements and dysfunctions sooner or later have a negative influence on the complex functional system and cause individually varying negative reactions in different segments.
Switching to correct functional sequences is not possible without targeted exercise treatment – FaceFormer therapy.
A simple example
A simple example illustrates the connections: everyone knows that snoring and breathing pauses are events that occur in connection with breathing. Breathing is our most important survival function and can take place through both the mouth and the nose. Both airways can successfully supply our lungs and, in turn, our entire body with the vital respiratory gas (oxygen, nitrogen, noble gases).
Mouth breathing, however, is a poor alternative. On the one hand, it causes the person affected to snore at night or to stop breathing, often for several seconds; on the other hand, it is also the cause of numerous other health impairments and even degenerative, life-threatening diseases (see article on mouth breathing). It is therefore plausible and logical to train away the cause of mouth breathing rather than immediately providing those affected with breathing masks. That, however, is easier said than done: the good intention to breathe through the nose is not enough to replace a long-standing unconscious habit with a new automatic behaviour.
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