Prevent Turkey Neck
Turkey-neck occurs for three reasons :-
- Loss of tone and aging in the platysma muscle. This is a thin sheet of muscle that covers the thoat, which keeps the skin tightly drawn into the jaw.
- The depressor lip muscles atrophy and shrink, distorting the platysma muscle so that it is pulled away from the throat.
- The skin loses elasticity and sags below the flaccid throat muscle.
All the above occur with aging, but turkey neck can begin relatively early in life due to common habitual muscle use in facial expression. Skin Aging only only magnifies turkey neck.
The following preventative exercises will help to offset your potential risk of turkey-neck by toning the platysma and depressor muscles.
(1) Turn your head to one side, open your mouth, and scoop the lower lip over the to lip.
Hold for three seconds, relax, then repeat five times each side.
(2) Repeat the above exercise but this time look forewards and tilt the head back slightly. At the same time curl the tip of your tongue, pressing it against the roof of your mouth.
Hold for three seconds, relax, then repeat five times.
(3) Repeat exercise (2) but don't push your tongue against the roof of your mouth. Instead smile while scooping your lower lip over top teeth.
Now click to the next chapter, which will explain how facial exercise can genuinely change your appearance for the better, and why you shouldn't approach facial exercise as casually as you would an ordinary fitness routine.
Now click to the next chapter, which will explain how facial exercise can genuinely change your appearance for the better, and why you shouldn't approach facial exercise as casually as you would an ordinary fitness routine.
