It is chiefly a motor nerve and carries motor fibers that control muscles. It does have some sympathetic fibers that supply the blood vessels of the tongue and some glands in the mouth.

Have you ever wondered why doctors often ask you to stick out your tongue during a routine check-up? While it may seem like a ...

Move your tongue in a circular pattern along the inner walls of your cheeks clockwise and then counterclockwise. Doing this ...

“When it came to speaking I was really slurred and really slow because everything in my mouth was so swollen and my tongue muscle was a lot weaker,” she explained, saying it “took me months ...

“Sometimes you drool on yourself — just try to relax into it,” she says in the clip, noting that the technique releases the muscles in the tongue and jaw, which is linked to the pelvis via ...

Tongue problems include a variety of symptoms, from pain to changes in color and texture, that can have many different causes. Though often hailed as "the strongest muscle in the body," the tongue ...

A change in tongue muscle mass has been linked to cognitive decline in people with dementia, potentially heralding a new tool for clinicians testing for the progression of the disease. This test ...