We treat stuttering and improve memory. How to cure stuttering at home

Some people experience a speech disorder that results in hesitation when pronouncing sounds. A person who stutters has tense muscles and a loss of control over speech. What could be the reasons for the appearance of such a strange disease?

Stuttering most often occurs when talking with other people; if a person talks to himself or to animals, then he does not stutter. However, this theory has not been confirmed.
Stuttering is a problem of brain dysfunction. After a malfunction of the brain occurs, the speech centers stop working synchronously, and the person begins to stutter.
Some believe that the reason is that a person hears his speech with a delay.

What are the types of stuttering?

There are three types:
1. The first type is characteristic of those who have a disorder of the nervous system. The reason of that frequent illnesses, birth injury, heredity. There may be different deviations.

2. The second type appears when a person has a dominant right hand and left eye. Therefore, it is not recommended to reteach children to write right hand, if they write with their left hand. Stuttering does not appear immediately, everything happens gradually. This type is more common.

3.Overwork and stress constitute the third type. The cause most often may be fear or overwork. Stuttering intensifies with psychological or nervous excitement.

How to treat?

People have been thinking about treating this disease for a long time. The orator Demosthenes, for example, spoke with pebbles in his mouth, and sometimes spoke to the sound of waves. And he managed to overcome the illness. In the nineteenth century, stutterers had part of their tongue muscles removed. However, this did not help everyone.

What treatment methods can be used now?
Can be used breathing exercises. It has been noticed that people who practice vocals do not stutter. The most famous treatment program is Strelnikova’s gymnastics.

Here are some examples of exercises:

1. Pump

Stand up straight, lower your arms, lean forward and down. Round your back. The neck is relaxed, arms and head are lowered. Take a strong breath, at the lowest point, rise, exhale without straightening. Bend over and repeat. Take eight such breaths and you can rest for five seconds.

2. Head turns

Stand straight, feet shoulder-width apart, arms at your sides. Turn your head to the left, quickly take a breath, turn your head to the right, take another breath. Exhale while turning your head. When turning your head, do not stop. The neck is relaxed, the arms and torso do not move.

Such exercises will help develop respiratory system, train the diaphragm, make the ligaments mobile. Before breakfast and dinner, devote 15-20 minutes to these exercises. The result will be noticeable within a few months.

Relaxation can also help you treat your stuttering.

Thus, researchers have found an area of the brain, the stimulation of which forces us to comply with social norms and rules.

"Rejuvenator"

100 years ago, such experiments had not yet been carried out, but they guessed: electric shock can not only kill people by sitting them on the chair of the same name, but also have a healing effect.

Lived in England engineer Otto Overbeck suffered chronic disease kidneys and at some point tried to be treated by passing a small current through my body. The illness has receded. As the 1920s progressed, Europeans were obsessed with rejuvenation technologies, and Overbeck decided that his time had come. He developed the "Rejuvenator" - a device capable of "treating any disease, except physical deformity and infections." But most importantly, the author argued, it reverses the aging process, eliminates baldness and gray hair.

The rejuvenating device consisted of a regular battery and a set of electrodes. They had to be brought to certain parts of the body. For example, to the eyelids, which immediately improves vision. Or to the hair, which makes migraines go away. Medical education Overbeck didn't have it, and scientific research he didn't. But he conducted an advertising campaign all over the world, which ensured uninterrupted sales of the miracle device. And after 3 years he bought himself a castle in Devonshire.

It is clear that doctors considered Overbeck a charlatan. But him commercial success would be impossible if the device were a complete dummy. Moreover, as is now clear, electricity is indeed capable of treating some disorders.

Electrodoping

Many beauty salons now have devices that use microcurrents to smooth out wrinkles around the eyes. And in any clinic there is a physiotherapy room, where they carry out procedures by applying electrodes to the body. In this way, patients improve blood circulation, relieve pain, and restore tissue. However, all this has nothing to do with the impact on the central nervous system and the brain. But the brain is essentially a huge electrical circuit, and it is natural that electrical impulses should somehow influence it.

“There is such a method - micropolarization, it was developed specifically for the correction of disorders of the central nervous system,” says Alexey Shelyakin, Doctor of Biological Sciences. - Very weak electrical signals are sent to specific areas of the brain through electrodes placed on the scalp. This changes the activity of nerve tissue, which allows us to treat a range of diseases (see infographic).”

Infographics by Yana Laikova / AiF

Alexey Shelyakin works at the Institute medical rehabilitation(St. Petersburg), where many devices have been developed, including for use this method. To date, more than 2 thousand patients have been treated. “The prospects are good,” he is confident. “There is evidence that the method will be useful in neurosurgery and narcology.”

Yes, yes, it turns out that by influencing the brain with electricity, you can save a person from addictions. Let's say, reduce his tendency to take risks (among gambling addicts), teach him to stop on time (the problem of alcoholism).

Of course, this should never be practiced at home (do not drag drinking husband to the outlet!), but who knows - whether such devices will appear over time?

“Micropolarization can only be used under medical supervision. “And now, and in 20 years,” Leonid Chutko, professor, head of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at the Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg), is convinced. - We use it to treat delays mental development in children, attention deficit disorder, disorders speech development. As a result, children's memory and attention improve, impulsivity decreases, and they begin to speak better. In general, interest in knowledge is increasing.”

By the way, about knowledge. The University of Oxford (UK) found that exposure to weak currents to the brain improves mathematical abilities. And in Australia, scientists have found that “under current” a person is more prone to creativity.

And they do not rule out that “electrodoping” for the brain, powered by a regular battery, may soon appear on sale.

Stuttering is a disturbance in the normal pronunciation of words, repetition of syllables, sounds, frequent interruptions in speech, lack of self-confidence. Similar illness a fairly common problem dating back to ancient times.

Various great people were affected by the disease, but the speech defect did not become an obstacle for them.

Children are more often at risk than adults. Boys are 3-4 times more susceptible to the disease.

There are some reasons that can lead to unpleasant consequences:

Psychological trauma (severe fear, negative environment, stress, fear of speaking, bullying);
Features of speaking ability;
Fetal hypoxia, head injuries;
Copying speech from people susceptible to illness;
Condition of the nervous system due to infections affecting the brain (meningitis, encephalitis).

Factors indicating the onset of the disease:

dictatorial upbringing in the family, lack of affection and warmth;
tearfulness, irritability, poor sleep, appetite;
decreased immunity;
genetic inheritance;
difficult birth, difficult pregnancy;
sudden change of environment (moving, visiting a child care facility).

The good news is that speech defects disappear with age. Only 3% of the adult population remains dependent on circumstances.

Symptoms of the disease

Stuttering can be classified according to its severity and clinical form. Based on the degree of stuttering, the following types of illness are distinguished:

Constant – completely fills ordinary life;
Wavy - appears at times;
Recurrent – re-occurrence after complete recovery.

According to the clinical form, there are two types of the disease, for each of them there are separate symptoms and causes, presented in the table:

Characteristics	Type of disease
Characteristics	Neurotic	Neurosis-like
Cause	Psychic trauma, previous second language learning	Difficult pregnancy, difficult childbirth
Character	Functional, brain functions not violated	Available organic changes in brain cells
Signs	Tearfulness, timidity, touchiness, fear of the dark, impressionability	Anxiety, presence bad sleep, lag in physical development, poor coordination, excitability, short temper
Manifestation period	2-6 years	3-4 years
Symptoms
In children	complete closure; increasing defect under any influence (stress, anxiety); wave-like flow; refusal to communicate with new people; the child is afraid to pronounce words, expecting the manifestation of a speech defect	phrases “a”, “e” are added; pauses in speech are more frequent and longer; convulsions in facial expressions and hands; memory loss disability
In adults	obsessive state of expectation of a speech defect in pronunciation; feelings of inferiority; loss of strength, lack of mood; fear of talking to people; complete refusal to communicate	severe cramps in all parts speech apparatus; when talking, constant rhythmic tilts of the head, swaying of the body, monotonous meaningless movements of the fingers; increased exhaustion and fatigue in speech

Thus, the disease affects not only children, but also adults. Moreover, the latter suffer more severely from the disease. Treatment for early stages much easier and more efficient.

Diagnostics

Identifying stuttering is quite difficult. Special tests are carried out to determine the likelihood of a speech defect.

The doctor, at his discretion, may prescribe additional laboratory research to identify a specific form of the disease:

General analysis of urine and blood;
Instrumental diagnostics (magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography).

For completeness and correct diagnosis necessary differential diagnosis And specific treatment with the participation of many specialists. You should see doctors such as a neurologist, psychologist, acupuncturist, psychiatrist and speech therapist.

After going through the doctors, you can determine the reason that caused the speech defect to occur. With the help of a general consultation of specialists, the only way to find Right way solving the problem.

Lifestyle and regimen during illness

To achieve positive results in treatment, you should follow some rules:

Set up your daily routine. Full sleep for 8-10 hours at night, daytime rest - 2-3 hours. Removing the computer and other gadgets in evening time. Refusal of new series of cartoons and partial reduction of the viewing period;
Correct diet. It is recommended to include plant and dairy products in your food. Remove sweets, salty foods, fried and spicy foods from your diet;
Proper calm communication. The conversation should be measured, unhurried with the correct pronunciation of each word;
Calm speech mode. You should choose books that you know well, and do not insist on retelling them. Walk more often in calm, quiet places. Play sedentary, non-stimulating games. Ask the child to comment on all his actions.

Lifestyle should minimize possible nervous shocks and irritations of the nervous system. Performing these actions will help bring the patient out of the state of fear of communication.

Doctors tell how to diagnose and get rid of stuttering, watch the video:

Treatment of stuttering in adults and children

Visiting different doctors will help identify the causes of logoneurosis. Specialists will refer you to necessary treatment, each in its own direction, which will result in positive results in the dynamics of disease development:

speech therapist - teaches correct use voices, breathing;
neuropathologist, psychiatrist - treat the nervous system using medications;
psychotherapist – psychotherapy treatment (hypnosis, auto-training);
psychologist – promotes emancipation in communication with other people;
acupuncturist - performs manipulations with needles, removing nervous excitement, helps improve blood circulation in the brain.

If there is constant unfavorable influence in the family, it is recommended to adjust the relationship between parents and child.

The following medications are prescribed:

sedatives: Novopassit, Dormiplant;
tranquilizers: Diazepam, Glycine, Medazepam, Afobazol;
to eliminate facial cramps: Mydocalm, Magnerot, Finlepsin;
drugs that increase blood circulation in the brain: Nootropil, Noofen, Encephabol.

For effective treatment exist various techniques therapies presented in the table.

Name	A course of treatment	Focus
Methodology Vygodskaya I.G., Pellinger E.L., Uspenskaya L.G.	36 lessons	A game situation is created that allows you to develop normal speech skills. Special speech therapy classes to level up speech
Methodology Smirnova L.N.	30 weeks	Provides correction of speech defects, improves memory, attention, develops fine motor skills of the hands, helps relax muscle tone
Silivestrov's technique	3-4 months, 32-36 lessons	An unobtrusive atmosphere is created and communication is kept to a minimum. After a period of rest, activities are aimed at stimulating the child’s speech. Classes are conducted on the transition from quiet to loud speech. Smooth, unhurried speech is consolidated in complex speech dialogues, conversations, retellings
Methodology of Shklovsky V.M.	2.5–3 months	The cause of the disease is identified, and a redistribution of the person’s personality and skills is carried out. The patient learns again to put his speech correctly in situations ordinary life. Confidence is being built correct pronunciation words
Methodology Harutyunyan L.Z.	24 days, then 5 courses of 7 days per year	Convulsions of the speech apparatus are eliminated, the fear of talking with other people is eliminated. It is necessary to accept the problem and be determined for the best outcome.
Hypnosis	One-time or periodically	The “adult” method is strictly prohibited for children. Some specialists build self-confidence through suggestion. The result is a life without stuttering. Eat side effects: headaches, insomnia, memory loss

In addition to possible techniques and medications, swimming procedures with dolphins, acupuncture and electrosleep are carried out.

Also, don't filter out traditional medicine, which can significantly affect a favorable outcome.

Therapy with folk remedies

Traditional medicine offers aromatherapy, recipes for mixtures, tinctures and decoctions, and self-massage.

Aromatherapy relieves nervous excitement and neutralizes fears. It is advisable to use oils of pine, bergamot, sandalwood, basil, rosemary, rose, wormwood, geranium or lavender. Place a few drops of oily liquid on a handkerchief, scarf, pillow and inhale until it disappears.

Decoctions and tinctures have a positive effect:

It is best to combine traditional medicine with traditional medicinal effects. Complex therapy will give positive results in the fight for healthy and correct speech.

You should not refuse any opportunity to cure a child or adult from stuttering.

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Stuttering is a complex speech disorder characterized by frequent repetition or prolongation of words, syllables, and sounds. And also stops, hesitations and pauses. The culprit is a spasm of the articulatory muscles - the muscles of the lips, palate, tongue, larynx, pharynx. The British Stuttering Association reports that speech impairment affects between 1.3 and 4.2% of people.

Types of stuttering

Some forms of stuttering are associated with neurological defects, often congenital. Using magnetic tomography, scientists from the universities of Göttingen and Hamburg found, for example, that people who constantly stutter have damaged nerve endings, which coordinate the work of the muscles of the tongue and the brain centers responsible for planning speech and listening to it.

Other forms are collectively called logoneurosis: it occurs against the background of acute or chronic stress. That is, people talk normally in a familiar environment - and get confused when emotional stress(exam, unfamiliar company, public speaking). There are often other manifestations of neurosis – phobias, anxiety, appetite and sleep disorders.

When does stuttering occur?

Logoneurosis usually forms in childhood (2–6 years) or adolescence. This happens more often with boys. Probably, the nervous system of girls is more resistant to factors that provoke the problem. Adults begin to stutter less often.

Half of the citizens who stutter have relatives in older generations with the same problem. Among close relatives, logoneuroses are detected, according to various sources, in 20–74% of cases.

Treatment for stuttering

Who should I go to for help? See a speech therapist to restore articulation, rhythm and coordination of speech. See a psychologist or psychotherapist to make a correction personality disorders(otherwise the work of the first specialist is in vain) and work on social adaptation. People who stutter feel awkward around traditional speakers, and some even develop social anxiety. And also - see a neurologist, reflexologist, osteopath or exercise therapist to work on fine motor skills fingers, restore muscle tone, improve memory and attention. The good news is that for some lucky people, their stuttering goes away on its own.

Is it possible to be cured completely? Yes, if there are no pronounced neurological and mental problems. True, stuttering may return - there is enough stress in life. It is important to deal not only with the elimination of logoneurosis, but also with the restoration of neuroplasticity, which ensures the ability to adapt to changing conditions.

Anti-stuttering pills

Scientists from the University of California have suggested that stuttering is associated with increased production the neurotransmitter dopamine, which, among other things, controls the functioning of the speech centers of the brain. Drugs that block the “culprit” substance can be used in complex therapy violations.

How to quickly relieve a spasm

You need to try to relax, do a few deep breaths and exhalations, switch attention - remember something good, look at an object or face that pleases the eye nice person, turn on familiar music. You can perform simple exercises, but it is important that you don’t lose your breath.

Stuttering is not a hindrance

Some stuttering artists and politicians stop stuttering when they go out in public. “If we are talking about moderate logoneurosis, then this is probably due to high motivation and iron willpower,” the expert believes. And musician John Larkin became famous thanks to his violation. His single "Scatman John", dedicated to stuttering, sold 6 million copies.

Convolvuluv Pluricaulis blooms with beautiful white flowers. This Ayurvedic remedy helps control arterial pressure blood and works well for stuttering. It is especially recommended for students to use this remedy during exams.

Typically, stuttering affects people from childhood. While some people manage to overcome their stuttering later in life, others are forced to seek help from a variety of specialists.

A person suffering from a stuttering problem is easily identified in a crowd of people. During a conversation, he repeats sounds or words. This may be accompanied by some expression, such as a nod and clenched facial muscles. Basically, these people get stuck during conversation and this impairs their ability to speak and communicate.

As per observation, there is an equal ratio of boys and girls suffering from stuttering among children. But in adults, cases of stuttering are more common in men than in women.

In this article I want to draw your attention to the fact that there are folk remedies for the treatment of stuttering. Traditional healers and Ayurveda have a wide arsenal of remedies for the treatment of stuttering.

Ayurvedic remedies for stuttering

In Ayurveda, herbs are believed to cure stuttering. These Ayurvedic remedies control Vata, Pitta and Kapha of the body.

Ayurveda played a prominent role in ancient medical system and continues to be highly regarded for its benefits. Indian folk remedies help eliminate stress, anxiety and other ailments naturally. There is no harm in using Ayurvedic remedies to lead better life. Ayurveda has herbs to treat stuttering.

Herbs that can cure stuttering

Ginger – a remedy for the nervous system

It has a wonderful effect on the entire human body. It not only improves problems related to the emotional and nervous system, but also improves brain function. This Indian folk remedy helps in the proper functioning of immune system and has multiple positive impact to other organs of the body.

Ashwagandha easily treats stuttering

Ashwagandha is another Ayurvedic remedy that helps cure stuttering easily. This herb contains substances that help overcome memory loss, stress and other chronic diseases. Most of these problems are lifestyle related and cause neurological imbalances. People who stutter often complain of fatigue, weakness in the body, and an inability to maintain energy.

The use of this Indian remedy improves brain function, making it sharper and healthier. Ashwagandha facilitates memory, improves sex life and thus helps reduce stress.

Bacopa (Brahmi) improves brain function

Brahmi is an amazing tranquilizer filled with numerous properties. This herb allows the brain to function properly. This Indian folk remedy is widely used to treat problems such as depression and stress.

Brahmi is the main ingredient in memory supplements and health tonics. This remedy helps cope with stress, hair loss and nervous problems. I recommend the use of bacopa to those who want to sharpen their mind, fight memory loss and improve general state health.

Gotu Kola helps improve concentration

This herb is quite rich nutrients which help in increasing concentration. This Ayurvedic folk remedy is used for several problems related to nerves and fatigue caused by increasing stress levels among people of different age groups.

Bindweed polycarp - a means for good grades on exams

Convolvuluv Pluricaulis blooms with beautiful white flowers. This Ayurvedic remedy helps control blood pressure and works well for stuttering. It is especially recommended for students to use this remedy during exams.

Calamus - an effective remedy for stuttering

Renders positive influence for people facing speech problems. It allows the body to recover from several nerve-related disorders.

Melissa - a remedy for anxiety

Melissa is one of the widely used effective herbal remedies for stuttering. It calms the heart and nerves of a person, reduces anxiety and nervousness. Take 30-40 lemon balm leaves and boil in 1 cup of water.

Drink 1/3 cup of this lemon balm tea 3 times a day. This folk remedy will help calm the nervous system. In addition, lemon balm is very effective in treating stuttering.

You can use all of the listed folk remedies in different combinations. If you use these herbs regularly, you will soon get rid of stuttering. Finally, be patient and do not lose confidence in the possibility of healing from stuttering with the help of folk remedies.