Welcome to the Swallow Your Pride Podcast. I'm your host Teresa Richard. I'm a board

certified specialist in Swallowing and Swallowing disorders and I know firsthand

how much confusing and conflicting information there is out there about how we assess and treat swallowing disorders.

This podcast is all about bringing everyone together, getting on the same page, being open to new ideas, and using evidence-based

treatment strategies for our patients with dysphagia. So let's get into it.

Just a quick disclaimer that all statements and opinions expressed in this episode do not

reflect on the organizations associated with the speakers and are their own opinions

solely. Want to get into how to treat dyspasia?

Sure.

Yeah, so, I mean, we do all of that work to find out what's going wrong with our patients follow function and then we have to think

about well what are we going to do about it so I think we have to when we see

dysphasia in this population determine is there a barrier that can be

changed that's contributing to my patient's dysphagia. So what really stands out

to me is I just had a patient in the past few weeks who had a

cervical spinal injury. She is a paraplegic and she is now tracheostomy dependent on and off of the ventilator.

So when the physicians actually, now some of our trauma surgeons have gotten really excellent and they know

that we can get these patients eating quickly so sometimes they're holding off

on the peg placements right away. Yeah, do you think you can do it and I'm always like yeah can, can me a shot, give me a shot.

But so I scoped this patient, did fees, and what I saw was that her swallow function

actually wasn't that terrible. There wasn't anything

shockingly disordered about her swallowing, but there was a little bit of residual

that would enter the larynx after she swallowed but she could not at

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