goat2x
You are done son
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I think ur tounge should be relaxedsame, i found this about it:
“The inter-examiner agreement on tonsil size was better, with a kappa of 0.62 (good agreement according to Byrt and Altman), and the poor outcome of the staging was, therefore, mainly due to difficulties in the agreement on tongue position. For example, in some patients, the doctors scored the same patient as having a tongue position of both the lowest and highest possible values. This high level of disagreement might be explained by differences in how the patients breathe during the examination. As suggested by Rodenstein et. al. [11], and easily observable during oral examination, the positions of the soft palate and tongue vary depending on whether the patient breathes through their nose or their mouth. While breathing through the nose, provided that the mouth is open, the soft palate will approach the tongue, thus favouring nasal airflow. In contrast, while breathing through the mouth, the soft palate will approach the posterior pharyngeal wall, favouring oral airflow. Consequently, rating of the Friedman tongue position with a patient breathing solely through their nose might give a higher value than a rating with the same patient breathing solely through their mouth. In the original description of how the Friedman staging is performed, as well as in the 2017 update [12], it is not specified whether the patient should breathe or not, nor whether to breathe through the nose or mouth. We believe that this needs to be specified, along with renewed investigation of the correlations with surgical outcomes. In our opinion, breathing through the mouth gives the most reproducible findings.”
TLDR: the guy who created the measure never specified if the patient should breath through the mouth, nose or not at all
but these researchers think that mouthbreathing for the test gives the best findings for comparison.
just dont push it down thats it