The cervical spine begins at the base of the skull. Seven vertebrae make up the cervical spine with eight pairs of cervical nerves. The individual cervical vertebrae are abbreviated C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 and C7. The cervical nerves are also abbreviated; C1 through C8. Dysphagia following cervical spine intervention has been under-diagnosed and […]

Public Education Sheet For over 75 years May has been designated as Better Hearing and Speech Month — a time to raise public awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the various forms of communication impairments to include those of hearing, speech, language, and voice. Communication impairments affect the most vulnerable in our society — the young, […]

    Consultants in Dysphagia Evaluation and Management Phone: 817-514-MBS1 or 1-888-514-MBS1 Fax: 817-514-MBS8 or 1-877-514-MBS8 Speech Pathologist Reference Sheet By. Ronda Polansky M.S. CCC-SLP THE NERVE OF IT ALL! CRANIAL NERVE REFERENCE SHEET         The cranial nerves innervate the muscles of the jaw, face, tongue, neck, pharynx, and larynx. Some of them are motor, […]

    Consultants in Dysphagia Evaluation and Management Phone: 817-514-MBS1 or 1-888-514-MBS1 Fax: 817-514-MBS8 or 1-877-514-MBS8 www.dysphagiadiagnostex.com By: Ronda Polansky M.S. CCC-SLP Dysphagia during the Holidays   If you really think about it, our lives revolve around food and eating.  We do business over lunch, romance over dinner, celebrate with food, and eating together solidifies […]

  Consultants in Dysphagia Evaluation and Management 817-514-MBS1 or 1-888-514-MBS1 By: Ronda Polansky M.S. CCC-SLP TASTE REFERENCE SHEET Now That’s Tasty!   DELICIOUS, Scrumptious, delectable, BLAND, unpalatable, Stale, awful, YUMMY,   Just a few of many words to describe taste, but they also describe smell and the two are often linked together. 4 BASIC TASTES […]

Consultants in Dysphagia Evaluation and Management 817-514-MBS1 or 1-888-514-MBS1 www.dysphagiadiagnostex.com By: Ronda Polansky M.S. CCC-SLP REFLUX Heartburn is a common problem in the United States and in the Western world. Approximately 7% of the population experience symptoms of heartburn daily. An abnormal esophageal exposure to gastric juice is probably present in 20-40% of this population, […]

  Consultants in Dysphagia Evaluation and Management 817-514-MBS1 or 1-888-514-MBS1 By: Ronda Polansky M.S. CCC-SLP TASTE REFERENCE SHEET Now That’s Tasty!   DELICIOUS, Scrumptious, delectable, BLAND, unpalatable, Stale, awful, YUMMY,   Just a few of many words to describe taste, but they also describe smell and the two are often linked together. 4 BASIC TASTES […]

       Consultants in Dysphagia Evaluation and Management www.dysphagiadiagnostex.com 817-514-MBS1 or 1-888-514-MBS1 2921 Brown Trail # 110 Bedford, Texas 76021 Modified Barium Swallow Study Notification for NURSING                                                                is scheduled for a Modified Barium Swallow Study (MBSS) on________/________/_______ at _____:_____ am/pm   In order for the procedure to run smoothly for our patient, […]

    Consultants in Dysphagia Evaluation and Management Phone: 817-514-MBS1 or 1-888-514-MBS1 Fax: 817-514-MBS8 or 1-877-514-MBS8 Speech Pathologist Reference Sheet By: Ronda Polansky M.S. CCC-SLP     STRATEGIES in Head and Neck Cancer For those patients who have undergone surgical resection or organ preservation protocols for head and neck cancer and who are unable to […]

Family Education Sheet ASPIRATION   Aspiration – Aspiration occurs when material such as gastric contents, saliva, food, nasopharyngeal secretions are inhaled into the airway or upper respiratory tract.  In a healthy population, micro aspiration is common and pulmonary secretions seldom occur. In the unhealthy population risk for pneumonia is higher due to levels of consciousness, […]

                             Consultants in Dysphagia Evaluation and Management Phone: 817-514-MBS1 or 1-888-514-MBS1 Fax: 817-514-MBS8 or 1-877-514-MBS8 By: Ronda Polansky M.S. CCC-SLP   PUREE Pizzazz Jazz it up tips!   The puree diet is recommended as an alternative for those unable to tolerate regular or mechanical soft foods.  A puree diet is generally a cohesive mashed […]

It is very important to understand WHY the dysphagia is occurring before initiating treatment for it. Velopharyngeal insufficiency raise and lower velum during the production of  /a/ to produce nasal and oral contrasts, as in /ng-a, ng-a/ Pretend to be “stopped up” and then gradually eliminate denasality to more oral resonance Raise the velum mechanically […]