Before you swallow you chew your food to a size shape and texture that can be swallowed.
Swallowing exercises tracking sheet.
How to do your swallowing exercises you can do these exercises when it is best for you for example before meals in the waiting room after you brush your teeth.
Gently hold the tip of your tongue between your front teeth.
Helps upward movement of the larynx voice box and the opening of the esophagus.
Keep sucking on the straw as you carry the straw over to a cup and stop sucking to release the paper into the cup.
From here the food or liquid passes through a.
Using tracking tools to.
To achieve good results at the end of the.
It involves swallowing your own saliva.
These exercises are sometimes used with other types of swallowing exercises.
The workout logs contain information on which activities to undertake and the time.
The exercises shown in this pamphlet help to stretch and strengthen the muscles in your mouth and throat.
To do this exercise keep your adam s apple elevated for about two to five seconds each time.
Tuck your chin and hold the towel in place without using your hands.
And then swallow hard.
Turn your head to the left and then swallow hard.
Rest for 10 seconds.
Swallowing exercises during and after treatment has finished.
While outcome tracking tools are less commonly used in the clinical setting there are many potential benefits to clinicians.
Tongue range of motion.
A workout log is a schedule that helps you to plan for your fitness activities.
These can be printed by your clinician to allow them to customize your swallowing exercise routine.
It makes your fitness goals easy to achieve and with good results if you adhere to the schedule.
Place multiple small pieces of paper on a towel in front of you.
These exercises help strengthen swallowing muscles.
Outcome tracking tools are commonly used in dysphagia research as a means of objectively measuring change in swallow function and various other variables relevant to swallowing and dysphagia.
Free pdf of exercises this information instruction and videos unless otherwise noted have been provided to the nfosd by the uc davis health system department of otolaryngology and nancy swigert ccc slp bcs s f asha and colleagues.
Do 5 reps 2 times per day.
Normally as the saliva enters the area just behind your mouth while swallowing your adam s apple the hard area about halfway down the front of your neck moves up and then back down.
When you swallow this material it passes through your mouth and down through parts of your throat called the pharynx and larynx.
Open jaw as far as you can and hold for 10 seconds.
The following exercises will be explained on the nfosd swallow exercise page.