equalization muscles
Hi Don,
Thank you very much for the info on muscle structure around the eustation tube. I have wondered for years how that worked. Thanks also to all those who have shared their knowledge on this site, it is truly fantastic.
I hope I can return the favor. It is possible to gain conscious, direct control over your clearing muscles, just like moving your fingers. Head up, head down, fast decent, it doesn't matter . Most people just don't know where to find the nerve pathways. For whatever reason, I knew where the nerve path was long before I could swim, much less dive.
What you are doing should be just the right approach to find the nerve path. Sounds like you have some major physical problems that will make clearing much harder, but the muscles are like any other, the more you use them the stronger they get.
This may help a little. If I look in the mirror while opening the tubes, I can see a very slight movement in the skin from the lower tip of the ear lobe on both ears and in a narrow band connecting the two. The skin under the ears indents maybe .2 cm over an area approximately 1 cm wide. Movement almost disappears under the chin. I am probably moving something more than the two primary muscles, but I don't know what.
Please keep us posted on your progress, this is potentiall useful to a lot of divers.
Thanks again,
Connor