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Anatomy and Physiology of Feeding and Swallowing – Normal and Abnormal

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The goal of dysphagia rehabilitation is to identify and treat abnormalities of feeding and swallowing while maintaining safe and efficient alimentation and hydration.
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This article is published in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America.The article was published on 2008-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 521 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Swallowing & Dysphagia.

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Dysphagia: current reality and scope of the problem

TL;DR: A unified field of deglutology is developing, with new professional profiles to cover the needs of all patients with dysphagia in a nonfragmented way, as well as marked advances in understanding the pathophysiology of these conditions.
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Evaluating the Structural Properties of Suprahyoid Muscles and their Potential for Moving the Hyoid

TL;DR: The morphology of the suprahyoid muscles suggests that based on structural properties, the geniohyoid has the most potential to displace the hyoid in the anterior direction and the mylohyoid has been suggested to displaces the hyoids in the superior direction.
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Dysphagia after Stroke: an Overview

TL;DR: The scope, the disease burden, the tools available for screening and formal evaluation of dysphagia, and the most common and recently developed treatment interventions that might be useful in the treatment of this population are discussed.
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Oropharyngeal dysphagia and gross motor skills in children with cerebral palsy

TL;DR: OPD was present across all levels of gross motor severity using direct assessments and highlights the need for proactive screening of all young children with CP, even those with mild impairments, to improve growth and nutritional outcomes and respiratory health.
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Coordination of mastication, swallowing and breathing

TL;DR: This review paper will review the temporo-spatial coordination of the movements of oral, pharyngeal, and larynx structures during mastication and swallowing, and temporal coordination between breathing, mastication, and swallowing.
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Aspiration Pneumonitis and Aspiration Pneumonia

TL;DR: Aspiration pneumonitis (Mendelson's syndrome), whereas aspiration pneumonia is an infectious process caused by the inhalation of oropharyngeal secretions that are colonized by pathogenic bacteria, are distinct clinical entities.
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Evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders

TL;DR: In this paper, the evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders was discussed, and the authors proposed a method to evaluate and treat the swallowing disorders based on the symptoms of the disorders and their symptoms.

Feeding : form, function, and evolution in tetrapod vertebrates

Kurt Schwenk
TL;DR: Feeding is a detailed survey of the varied ways that land vertebrates acquire food and the functional anatomy and the control of complex and dynamic structural components are recurrent themes of this volume.
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Objective assessment of swallowing dysfunction and aspiration after radiation concurrent with chemotherapy for head-and-neck cancer.

TL;DR: Assessment of swallowing function after an intensive chemoradiation regimen for locally advanced head-and-neck cancer found significant objective swallowing dysfunction is prevalent, which promotes aspiration, which may not elicit a cough reflex and may be associated with pneumonia.
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