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Dysphagia Study Guide Exam with AllQuestions with% Correctly Answered (A
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Head Postures: Chin Tuck - ANSWER -Slows down oral stage of flow
Changes pharyngeal pressures
-Helps epiglottis and arytenoids approximate
Head Postures: Head tilt to strong side - ANSWER Holds food on strong side
Head Postures: Head turn - ANSWER Squeezes off weak muscles and helps the strong
muscles work better
Head Postures: Chin lift - ANSWER -Opens the airway -
Only good for people with oral stage issues ONLY
Body Postures: Side Laying - ANSWER -Rarely
used -On strong side
-Allows residues to accumulate on the strong side
Body Postures: Prone - ANSWER On stomach
Body Postures: Back Laying - ANSWER Good for giving small bites
Neural Plasticity - ANSWER -Changes speech, strength, coordination of
swallow -Improve muscle movement
-Manipulate the system to geta different/improved behavior
, -Drives treatment, more you focus on this the faster people will recover
Use it or lose it - ANSWER -If you do not use the structure, neural networks will weaken and
make the function inadequate
-Ex: someone who is NPO can chew on ice chips throughout the day to help work their muscles
Use it and improve it - ANSWER The more you swallow, the better it will be
Specificity - ANSWER Work on specific muscles instead of all of them (saves time and money
not working on things that don't need to be worked on)
Repetition matters - ANSWER -Repetitive exercise builds muscle mass
-Practice makes perfect
-10 sets of 10
Intensity matters - ANSWER -Working until fatigue strengthens muscles
-Work on it until the patient is tired
Time matters - ANSWER -The more training, the stronger the muscles will get,
strategies become more automatic over time
-5 times a week for 8 weeks to build muscle
Salience matters - ANSWER -Using swallows to get more swallows
-Work close to the swallow
Age matters - ANSWER -As you age, the muscles atrophy and
waste -Younger the better prognosis
Transference - ANSWER -Working on one skill improves another -
Ex: working on pharyngeal wall also strengthens the tongue
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