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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zauberflote" data-source="post: 1975222" data-attributes="member: 496650">[USER=495513]@Charis1213[/USER] and [USER=468714]@kitedoc[/USER] first, I don’t wish to assert myself in this discussion, “taking sides”. I watched this with great interest, as my DH has snoring and dx apnea, and we’re in a stage right now where no mask fits, and turning on his side to sleep when I poke him hard has become painful to his back. As a professional flute player of 50+ years experience, I see the exercises presented as beneficial to nearly anyone. Every move he made except the last one is something that a wind instrument player, apnea or no, must be able to do in spades, “backwards and in high heels”, as is said of Ginger Rogers. IOW, we strengthen the very muscles he works on, simply by playing our instruments with excellent technique. So there can’t be a whole lot of harm in doing the exercises. If we strengthen and tone our glutes or quads, they will remain potentially toned while we sleep. My hands remain as potentially agile asleep as awake, although they don’t do much about it while sleeping. My very highly trained and strengthened diaphragm remains highly trained and strong while I sleep.All of this opens up territory for exploration by some doctoral candidate! “Lifelong Effects Of Wind Instrument Playing On Sleep Apnea Diagnoses”. (Clearly I have never done doctoral level work!) So.. I am going to assign these to Mr ZF, as it is I who suffers when he snores, and I will certainly know if the exercises are changing his snoring and snorking patterns!Kitedoc, I do bow to your high level of expertise here, but I speak only for my own sleeping partner and myself. Charis, thanks for posting this!</blockquote>

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