If at first you don’t succeed…Part 2: Tools of the trade

Author: Liz Ackroyd
Magazine issue: Spring 09
Page numbers: E1-E3
Date: 28 February 2009
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This article provides more detail on the tools and resistive exercises used to try to assist a man with severe oropharyngeal dysphagia (see Part 1 ‘When traditional techniques are not enough’). More information is given about Trophic Electrical Stimulation, resistive tongue / lip exercises, compensatory strategies and Surface Electromyography.