Over the past four decades, our understanding of swallowing neural control has expanded
dramatically. However, until recently, advances in rehabilitation approaches for dysphagia …

A major emphasis in the evaluation of swallowing is to identify physiological abnormalities in
swallowing that contribute to or explain unsafe swallowing (ie, ingested material enters the …

Purpose Thickened liquids are frequently used as an intervention for dysphagia, but gaps
persist in our understanding of variations in swallowing behavior based on incremental …

Purpose: It is essential that clinicians have evidence-based benchmarks to support accurate
diagnosis and clinical decision making. Recent studies report poor reliability for diagnostic …

Purpose Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are the primary providers of dysphagia
management; however, this role has been criticized with assertions that SLPs are …

Dysphagia is one of the primary symptoms experienced by individuals with
Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy (OPMD). However, we lack understanding of the …

Dysphagia is commonly diagnosed in patients living with dementia, but we lack
understanding of changes in swallowing physiology and the resulting relationship to …

The purpose of this study was to identify differences in temporal parameters correlating to
the presence of aspiration and the severity of penetration-aspiration scale (PAS) in patients …

Background Dysphagia (swallowing impairment) is a common and often life‐threatening
problem after stroke. Submental surface electromyography (ssEMG) visual biofeedback is a …

Objective Voluntary cough testing (VCT) may be useful for determining aspiration risk in
neurogenic dysphagia; however, has yet to be investigated in traumatic cervical spinal cord …