Facial Exercises For Rosacea Reduction
The Sobye's Massage or non surgical face lift is very useful as the face has many muscles which hold tension in many different ways for different purposes. If the muscles are not toned by exercise, the face will sag and portray an older look. Facial muscles don't all attach directly to bone like they do in the rest of the body. Instead, many of them attach under the skin. This allows you to contract your facial muscles in the smallest amount and make dozens of different kinds of faces as you have noticed in your past photos of the slightest time difference in photo shots. If all the muscles are toned the face will have a natural face lift, the skin will be smoother and younger looking and the general appearance will be brighter and more pleasant. Frown lines are caused when we hold tension too long and too often; however when your face relaxes deeply the muscles relax giving the skin of the red rosacea face a chance to smooth out and allows the restricted blood to 'flow out' resulting in a very useful function for the rosscea sufferer.
The rosacea sufferer very often thinks of redness and blood flow and would love to have normal skin as your face is on display to the world and is an indication of your level of health, happiness, and vitality. The past has been problematic for the rosacea sufferer as the facial artery supplies blood to the face through a network of curves, angles across the cheeks, around the mouth, lips, tongue, and along the nose, around the eyes, and across the forehead. As the various facial areas have many functions to perform as we talk, eat, laugh, cry, blink, sneeze, or do any of the other subconscious functions as the smallest movement can turn a smile into a frown. You can raise your eyebrow to look surprised or wiggle your nose. So as you can imagine, the network of blood supply is not an easy in and out straight plumbing supply. It is further compounded when we freeze or hold steady without the other body movement such as watching a computer screen for a long period of time or perform some other task such as being tense in a court room or awaiting some important event such as a supervisor calling upon us in that we become 'focused or stonefaced' with little muscle movement which makes for a more difficult supply of blood to reach the facial muscles and skin areas. The facial artery is supplied blood from a branch of the external carotid artery along the neck area that most of us are very familiar with as this is also the brain blood supply. A few people have rosacea of the neck area also in addition to the facial skin area. We do not think you really wish to kill these facial arteries as some people do with various rosacea laser or light treatments but really desire for a better blood supply and return movement system as a better rosacea treatment.
However, the return of blood from the face is through the anterior facial vein which takes a more straight course through the face and is separated from the facial arteries by a large space so that we do not see the "blue veins" usually in a persons face as they are located deeper below the skin surface. The nose capillaries become sometimes become "arteries" and appear blue or purple. However, they are really extremely aggravated arteries that are old and extremely weaken and worn and not blue veins of the return blood supply.
The mechanism of action as a rosacea homopathic treatment is the accelerated lymphatic drainage with reduction of redness shortly after the massage and futuristic days if the rosacea treatment massages continue. The use of the rosacea massage for lymphatic drainage with the cleansing of the face which is a two fold purpose.
The reasons for recommendation the Soybe Massage is
1) to massage the skin for better lymphatic drainage to reduce the redness and
2) to aid in reducing the acne component of those sufferers with acne as 82 % of rosacea sufferers have acne pimples in additon to rosacea redness and rosacea papules.
See the British Journal of Dermatology for reducing oedemas or swelling of the facial area due to abnormal and excessive fluid accumulation within the facial tissue
The Sobye massage is accomplished in three different ways as follows:
1) is to awaken the skin in the morning or upon arising by "rotating the fingertips on the skin" by holding the finger tips in one place and moving the hand for 10 to 15 seconds or more depending on the person's rosacea tolerance,
2) exercising the facial muscles by making many different facial expressions or exercises or contortions of "smiling, frowning, moving the facial muscles UP and DOWN and Left and RIGHT and a variety of exercises that you can choose from as to your personal choice and to those that could be watching you, and
3) the use of a washcloth and soap which additionally cleans the skin as 82% of rosacea sufferers have both rosacea and acne. The result is to relax all the muscles of your face while encouraging better circulation into the skin of the face and for proper exiting through the veins. Thinking of positive things and smiling is relaxing and moves the brain out of the sympathetic nervous system mode of "flight or flight".


