HANDLE APPROACH:PART 1

Face Tapping

Hari ini semasa masuk ke bilik menyimpan barang mama ternampak fail yang diberikan oleh Unit Rehabilitasi (Pediatrik), Hospital Gleneagles.Mama pun membelek segala macam 'brochure' dan nota. 

Antara nota yang menarik adalah 'face tapping technique' yang kami amalkan untuk Sofea. Mama akan tulis 'key point' yang penting, mungkin teknik ini dapat memberi sedikit sebanyak manfaat pada kanak-kanak yang senasib dengan Sofea.

Nota 'Face Tapping'

Benefits:

This activity awakens, organizes, integrates and relaxes the trigeminal nerve, one of the twelve pairs of Cranial Nerves.

Among the salients are:
Alleviation of headaches,integration of facial and general tactile sensations, reduction of TMJ pain, support of speech production, relief of facial tics and paralysis, increse in facial muscle tone for expression of affect, and frequently gives rise to asense of calmness.It also helps to open the sinuses, increase circulation to gum tissue, support vision and hearing and support energy channels.

Procedure:
1.Tap using two fingers on each hand and rapidly and rhythmically alternating from one hand to the other.

-The tempo of this tapping would approximate the beat in Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
-The energy involved in each tap should be enough to produce sound if you were to tap on a tabletop

(your goal is to stimulate the nerves that are situated between the skin and the bone.You will know the tapping pressure is right if you feel a tingling or a sense of vitality to the face after tapping, but no discomfort or pain).

Start and stop at Home Base, at temples:
1.Across brow to midline up to hairline and back

2.To bridge of nose and back

3.Across cheek to mustache area and back

4.Down sideburns and under lip and back

5.Behind ear following imaginary eyeglasses and back.

2.The tapping pattern should always be the same, so the rain weventually begins to anticipate the stimulation. Here is the recommended sequence:

a) From the temple along the eyebrows, to the midpoint between the eyebrows, up to the hairline and return by the same path to the temple.

b) From the temple down across the top of the cheekbone to the bridge of the nose and back to the temple.

c) From the temple down along the bottom edge of the cheekbone, along the upper gum line (the "moustache area") and in to meet just below the nose. Then return to the temple, tapping.

d) From the temple downward to the rearmost corner of the lower jaw then forward on the gum line of the lower jaw to meet tapping hands in the space between the lower lip and the chin. Return, tapping, to the temple.

e) From the temple around behind the ears, where the eye-glass arms would rest on the bone, very close to but not touching  the ear. Return, tapping, to the temple. This last pathway is not on trigeminal nerve proper, but rather enhances hearing via bone conduction.

Source: 1994, 2007 The HANDLE Institute International, LLC