I was looking for a way to stop grinding my teeth in my sleep. I was grinding my teeth so hard that a perfectly good and relatively new crown came loose. I thought the problem was caused by my stiff neck and tight shoulders which is often the result of spending too much time at the keyboard.

Despite getting plenty of exercise, I’ve had trouble with my neck on and off for a long time. I walk every day. I swim. I ride my bicycle often. I do yoga. When I’m really desperate, I see the chiropractor, get a massage and some acupuncture.

On this occasion I decided I needed to get some sort of mouth guard for sleeping since my usual attempts to loosen and relax my neck were not working. I feared that sooner or later I was going to crack a tooth or loosen my crown again not to mention my jaws were killing me when I woke up in the morning.

So I started looking for a mouth guard. And what I discovered, quite my accident, was the Lip Trainer.

The Lip Trainer is not a mouth guard even though at first glance I thought it was. And the bizarre part of my story is that I bought the Lip Trainer because the man who sold it to me convinced me that it would help me get a good night’s sleep. He guaranteed that after just seven days, I would sleep through the night without waking up. We didn’t talk about my neck problem. We didn’t talk about the fact that <em>at that very moment</em> I had <em>such a splitting headache</em> from the tension in my neck that I could <em>hardly think!</em> And since English was not his first language, I don’t think he understood me when I said I was looking for a way to stop grinding my teeth.

Really, it was the allure of a good night’s sleep that convinced me to try it. Little did I know that all of my problems stemmed from the fact that I slept unknowingly with my mouth open!

The man showed me how to slip the Lip Trainer behind my lips and in front of my teeth and to squeeze the device closed with just my lips for three minutes; not clamping my teeth closed but rather relaxing the jaw and using only the lips.

Eighty dollars later, I took the Lip Trainer home and used it twice that afternoon and evening before going to bed. I didn’t sleep particularly well that night but when I woke in the morning I felt such a blessed relief in my neck that I couldn’t believe it. I should mention that up to that point I’d had neck pain and a headache almost every day for weeks. So the relief was staggering.

But on this the first morning after just two exercises with the Lip Trainer, my neck, my shoulders, my back were completely relaxed. And I could tell from the way my jaws felt that I did not grind my teeth that night.

When I finally sat down and read all the literature, it was right there in black and white that the Lip Trainer would cure a stiff neck instantly! And I can tell you that it did!

I’ve been using the Lip Trainer for six weeks now. I use it faithfully four times a day for three minutes. My neck continues to feel great despite long hours at my desk. I sleep ever so soundly right through the night breathing through my nose instead of my mouth and my sinuses have stopped draining!

The Lip Trainer was originally developed by a doctor in Japan to help a stroke patient rehabilitate. Since the year 2000 over 5000 clinics and hospitals in Japan have radically cured an unbelievable plethora of conditions with this simple device. Even Autistic and Down’s Syndrome children benefit from the use of the Lip Trainer.

I have no financial link or interest in the Lip Trainer. I am just a very very happy customer sharing my experience.

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