Current management of dysphagia involves compensation and rehabilitation. Compensatory techniques—such as chin tuck or modifying diet and fluid consistencies—enable safe swallowing but do not alter long-term function [7]. Rehabilitative exercises, however, can improve swallowing function and resumption of...
Purpose: Decrease the threshold of the pharyngeal swallow response and improve the triggering speed of the pharyngeal swallow. Techniques: 1. Place a cold, wet cotton swab in contact with the anterior faucial arches, and maintain this position while vertically rubbing it up and down. 2. Complete...
patients have learned to improve tongue and jaw range of motion, and well base of tongue to posterior wall contact, laryngeal elevation, and pharyngeal contraction, resulting in resumption of oral feeding and discontinuation of feeding via peg tubes. with improvements in swallowing function from post...
Effortful swallow, in which the patient swallows as hard as they can while squeezing the pharyngeal muscles as tightly as possible Base-of-tongue exercises, including yawning, pretending to gargle, pulling the tongue straight back in the mouth Lingual exercises with resistance, such as...
Swallowing muscle strength exercises are effective in restoring swallowing function. In order to perform the exercises with progressive load, the swallow e