Dance-a-Runi: CCHS

OUCH...!!!
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Wow!!! This feels strange...
 Contra Face 
(Contra Cheekular Hyperextension)
 
  • When you return home after a great Contra dance evening, do your jaws suffer?
  • Do your cheekbones cry out in pain? 
  • Are your eye sockets bulging and sore?


If so, you might be encountering CCHS (Contra Cheekular Hyperextension Syndrome), also referred to as "Contra Face"!
CCH Syndrome is one of the few 'negative' aspects of avid Contra dancing. This painful condition is the result of excessive smiling, caused by the intense pleasure that is derived from Contra dancing. It is most often seen at dance weekends, but it has been surfacing at weekly dances as well.

One dancer, who was an avid dance gypsy, did not heed the early warnings and tell-tale signs:

As a result, that dancer's face has frozen into a steady CCHS stare--THE DAMAGE IS DONE FOR ALL TIME!! What can YOU do to relieve this so-called dreaded condition? Below are some suggestions.

PHYSICAL THERAPIES:(Click on each photo for larger detail)

Perform at a perpendicular angle.
The Head Vise
Gently roll each cheek around.
Cheekular Manipulation
Perfrom a trumpeting sound in this position.
The Lip Lock-down
If you pull down too far, you may experience extra gravity.
Pulling the cheeks down
Apply even pressure from both sides.
The Side-Squish
Make sure not to push one cheek past the other one.
Pushing the cheeks together
Make sure to breathe occasionally!!
Cheekular Inflation
Do not pull one cheek off inadvertently.
Pulling the cheeks apart
One a day keeps the doctor away...
Pharmaceutical Therapy
I love cushy textiles!!
Ice-in-a-towel technique
ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz....!!!!
Sleep-it-off Therapy
Your own preferred therapy 
could be listed here!!!

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Throughout the coming months, we here at CCHS labs will provide more of our research and therapies as they become available.

In development:

Please send us any suggestions you might have (and a jpeg picture if available) to us. dancearuni@yahoo.com.


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