Dysphagia

by Palmer, Jeffrey B.

• ISBN13: 9781416063384
• ISBN10: 1416063382
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: SAUNDERS W B CO

Summary

Rehabilitation of impaired swallowing, also known as dysphagia, is a major area of rehabilitation. Dysphagia affects about half of all people with stroke, and many other individuals with neurological disorders, head and neck cancer, and muscle disease. Dysphagia often responds to rehabilitation strategies, including exercise, diet modifications, postural adjustments, and special techniques for altering breathing and swallowing. This issue of PM&R Clinics brings together an outstanding group of international experts in dysphagia rehabilitation from medicine, speech language pathology, surgery, and dentistry, under the leadership of Dr. Jeffrey Palmer of Johns Hopkins University. They present clear and informative summaries of the scientific basis of swallowing and dysphagia, methods for evaluation and treatment, and special issues in the most common types of dysphagia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Anatomy and Physiology of Feeding and Swallowing: Normal and Abnormal	p. 691
Neural Control of Feeding and Swallowing	p. 709
Esophageal Dysphagia	p. 729
The Bedside Examination in Dysphagia	p. 747
The Videofluorographic Swallowing Study	p. 769
Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing	p. 787
Treatment of Oral and Pharyngeal Dysphagia	p. 803
Surgical Treatment of Dysphagia	p. 817
Pediatric Dysphagia	p. 837
Dysphagia in the Elderly	p. 853
Dysphagia in Stroke and Neurologic Disease	p. 867
Rehabilitation of Dysphagia Following Head and Neck Cancer	p. 889
Dysphagia Rehabilitation in Japan	p. 929
Index	p. 939
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