Revealing Spine-tingling Changes in Pharyngeal Swallowing
Here’s hoping your Dysphagia Course was more in depth than mine when it came to the wide-ranging topics and areas for discussion, debate, and discovery! My journey began with this sub-population population after recently starting at a hospital that is very much geared towards geriatrics. Even though I was on the big learning curve for VFSS, I still had many stroke, trach, and other general diagnoses under my belt. But generally healthy older adults? Panic started to creep in for sure as I had to debate daily if their dysphagia was due simply presbyphagia, related to another diagnosis, OR impacted by the many spinal deviations we constantly saw across this population; not to mention a possible combination!😓
These kinds of anatomical changes and resulting swallowing impairments definitely threw me for a loop but made me realize the huge difference between acutely-related impairments and general geriatric swallowing. Of course if I could turn back time I would’ve had this article in hand while staring at that spinal curvature. But now that it’s here it is100% worth giving a full read and sharing it to to anyone and everyone in the same boat!😍
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