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Deglutition talk with Ianessa A. Humbert and Alicia K. Vose

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Down the Hatch - The Swallowing Podcast episodes:

10.19.2020
Motor Learning: Swallow Neurophysiology Series
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10.19.2020
Cranial Nerves
Are there foundational principles that ALL SLPs should know about cranial nerve testing? Are we are checking off a list of nerves we've probed or are we tying behaviors we see back to function? What about relevance to the central...
08.27.2020
#SLPsofemale
96.3% of Speech Language Pathologist self-identify as female. In this episode of Down the Hatch Podcast, we are joined by 4 male SLPs to discuss the female dominance of our profession. Our guests Ryan Bransky, Rick McAdoo, Dan Weinstein, and...
07.28.2020
Swallowing Sensation and Perception
Sensation is largely overlooked in swallowing science and clinical practice. Why? It's difficult to test and to interpret! In this episode of Down the Hatch (The Swallowing Podcast), special guest Rachel Mulheren, Ph.D., discusses sensation as it relates to swallowing....
06.22.2020
Experience Dependent Plasticity in Dysphagia Management
Do you decide which patients will have swallowing therapy or modified diets? Are you aware of your role in modifying Experience Dependent Plasticity as a clinician managing swallowing impairments? In this episode of Down the Hatch (Swallowing Podcast), co-hosts Ianessa...
05.01.2020
Swallowing Neural Control: 101
Back by popular demand, Down the Hatch’s Swallowing Physiology Series is now focused on neural control! In our Swallowing NEUROPhysiology Series, hosts Drs. Ianessa Humbert and Alicia Vose focus on concepts related to the central nervous system, not just because...
03.31.2020
COVID Era and SLP dysphagia practice
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has drastically changed health care practice around the world. Many medical speech language pathologists are uncertain about how and whether to continue managing patients with swallowing impairments (dysphagia), and if so... whom? In this episode of...
03.27.2020
Re-release: Dysphagia Documentation Dilemma
There were some issues with the original release of this eposide, so this is a re-release: Original description: It happens every time. A particular question is posed by one member of an audience of speech language pathologists who treat dysphagia. The...
02.07.2020
#slpsowhite
The field of Speech Language Pathology is 95% white female. As a result, efforts to increase diversity in this discipline have been ongoing, yet somewhat unsuccessful. It is possible that issues surrounding the whiteness of SLPs could be better explored...
01.30.2020
Response to the Give Hope Podcast
“I just listened to your DTH podcast with Jim. In my humble opinion I think this podcast should be required listening for every SLP student and every SLP everywhere who deals with dysphagia….” “To expose what has become a very comfortable...
01.11.2020
Head and Neck Cancer
Head and neck cancer can cause devastating swallowing problems, requiring a unique approach. This episode of Down the Hatch (The Swallowing Podcast) includes guest Heather Starmer, M.A., CCC-SLP who has extensive clinical and research expertise in dysphagia due to head...
12.23.2019
GIVE HOPE! Reflections on Living with a Swallowing Disorder
“I don’t want to be too dramatic, but the NPO is almost like a death sentence … I really think that it should be the last recourse and not the beginning”. This one of many sincere opinions from an individual...
10.17.2019
Experience versus Expertise Part 1
What is an expert? Do more years of experience guarantee a deepening of knowledge? Do scientists think differently than clinicians? In this episode of Down the Hatch (The Swallowing Podcast), hosts Alicia Vose and Ianessa Humbert discuss how to obtain...
09.16.2019
The Swallowing Physiology Series: Pharynx and UES
In this last episode of The Swallowing Physiology Series, hosts Alicia Vose and Ianessa Humbert tackle both the pharynx and the upper esophageal sphincter (UES). This includes Down the Hatch Podcast (swallowing podcast)covers structure, function, and relevance to aspiration and...
08.10.2019
Swallowing Physiology Series: Laryngeal Vestibule Closure
Laryngeal vestibule closure (LVC)is one of the most complicated and critical swallowing events, but it remains poorly understood. In this episode of Down the Hatch (The Swallowing Podcast), we continue the Swallowing Physiology Series, with Ianessa and Alicia discussing the...
06.05.2019
The Swallowing Physiology Series: Swallow Trigger
Recently, an overwhelming 92% of clinicians responded “NO” to the question: Did you feel prepared to assess and treat swallowing disorders upon graduation (Plowman & Humbert 2018). 45% of SLP survey respondents think that more dysphagia courses would improve competency...
05.20.2019
ASHA What Have You Done For Me Lately?
ASHA... What are you doing for your membership? For quality improvement of dysphagia management? This is a common question among ASHA members. In this installment of Down the Hatch (The Swallowing Podcast)Host Ianessa Humbert is joined by ASHA President hopeful...
03.20.2019
The Swallowing Physiology Series: Base of Tongue Retraction
Recently, an overwhelming 92% of clinicians responded “NO” to the question: Did you feel prepared to assess and treat swallowing disorders upon graduation (Plowman & Humbert 2018). 45% of SLP survey respondents think that more dysphagia courses would improve competency...
02.01.2019
The Swallowing Physiology Series: Oral Preparation
Recently, an overwhelming 92% of clinicians responded “NO” to the question: Did you feel prepared to assess and treat swallowing disorders upon graduation (Plowman & Humbert 2018). 45% of SLP survey respondents think that more dysphagia courses would improve competency...
12.13.2018
Tell Me What To Do!
Do you think we need more swallowing therapies? Do you hand out a standard list of therapy worksheets for many of your patients with swallowing problems? Have you ever thought "Tell me what to do!" when faced with making decisions...
11.12.2018
12 Step Plan for Competence in Dysphagia Management: Acceptance
The data are abysmal! In a recent publication, partly authored by Down the Hatch Hosts Alicia Vose and Ianessa Humbert, we reveal that SLP identification of swallowing impairments is poor to moderate. Why? Many could not differentiate disordered swallowing events...
10.02.2018
INTO the Mouth of Babes: A Pediatric Dysphagia Primer
To address feeding and swallowing impairments in the pediatric population, one requires highly specialized knowledge. Still, pediatric dysphagia is extremely understudied and underfunded and SLP clinicians often learn on the job. In this episode, Dr. Emily Zimmerman, an expert in...
08.09.2018
Gender Bias in Communication Sciences & Disorders
The field of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) faces a critical shortage of the faculty essential to train the future workforce of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists. Despite a predominance of women in the field, men receive doctoral degrees, academic leadership...
06.07.2018
Diet & Exercise
Diet modifications and swallowing exercises are a mainstay in dysphagia rehabilitation, but do they truly prevent aspiration pneumonia or rehabilitate impaired swallowing? Do researchers have a responsibility to conduct studies that justify or refute frequent SLP use of thickened liquids,...
05.09.2018
The Big Squeeze
Does more pharyngeal residue mean that there is reduced pharyngeal pressure? Do greater pharyngeal pressures occur when swallowing thicker boluses? Does the Mendelsohn Maneuver reduce UES pressures? Dr. Corinne Jones of the University of Wisconsin (Madison) joins Down the Hatch...
03.31.2018
Wreak Havoc: Are you sure your dysphagic patients need strengthening?
This installment is focused on the topic of weakness and fatigue. Have you ever decided that one of your dysphagic patients needs strength training? If so, can you define weakness or fatigue? In this episode, we discuss weakness and fatigue...
03.06.2018
Expert Rant#2: Be the expert ... SLPs can win the confidence of physicians
"If we've got an area of our field where somebody dies because we made a mistake, then we have got to have standards the same way every other medical profession does." Julie Barkmeier Kraemer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, a voice, swallowing, and...
02.06.2018
50 Shades of GRAY: Addressing the SLP relationship with Radiology
Do you feel that SLPs are at the mercy of Radiology? Is there any chance that SLPs could run videofluoroscopy studies by themselves? In this installment of Down the Hatch (The Swallowing Podcast) our special guest is Jen Sirera R.T....
01.10.2018
2017 Year In Review
2017 was a year with several hot topics in dysphagia management. Join Alicia Vose and Ianessa Humbert with special guest Ed Bice as they discuss electrical stimulation, thermal tactile stimulation, ASHA, cookbook therapy, cyber bullying and many more exciting topics.
11.30.2017
Evidence Based Practice or Theory Based Practice?
Are you a research-thumping, Evidence Based Practice evangelical? Or, perhaps you are tired of hearing that your go-to therapies are “not evidence based”? This installment of Down the Hatch (The Swallowing Podcast), entitled “Evidence Based Practice or Theory Based Practice”...
10.02.2017
EXPERT RANT #1 with Dr. Catriona Steele
Down the Hatch (Swallowing Podcast) lucky number 13! Dr. Catriona Steele, a prolific scientist and swallowing expert, launches the first episode in our series called EXPERT RANT on the following 3 topics: 1. Revisiting the Clinical Swallowing Evaluation from Down the...
08.30.2017
Piecing together the Clinical Swallowing Evaluation (CSE)
The Clinical Swallowing Evaluation (CSE) is a critical part of dysphagia management. However, it is often misused and over interpreted. In this high-energy installment of Down the Hatch (The Swallowing Podcast) SLPs Rinki Varindani Desai and Beth Shah, along with...
08.04.2017
SLP Solidarity
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much SLP solidarity exists at your work place? Take a listen to the newest Down the Hatch swallowing podcast where Alicia Vose and I explore the challenges and benefits of SLP Solidarity...
06.12.2017
The State of Dysphagia Education And Training
In this 10th installment of Down the Hatch, the podcast about swallowing, hosts Ianessa Humbert and Alicia Vose talk with guest Andre Gaboriau, M.A., CFY-SLP and returning guest Rinki Varindani Desai, M.S., CCC-SLP about the state of dysphagia education and...
04.27.2017
DtH 9 Dysphagia Documentation Dilemma
It happens every time. A particular question is posed by one member of an audience of speech language pathologists who treat dysphagia. The question is cautious with a hint of frustration: How do I deal with inadequate modified barium swallow...
04.27.2017
DtH 9 Dysphagia Documentation Dilemma
It happens every time. A particular question is posed by one member of an audience of speech language pathologists who treat dysphagia. The question is cautious with a hint of frustration: How do I deal with inadequate modified barium swallow...
03.12.2017
Expiratory Muscle Strength Training in Dysphagia Management
Expiratory muscle strength training (EMST) is a device driven-therapy based in exercise physiology principles and used in dysphagia management. Although it is a non-swallowing treatment, it is known to have important utility in increasing the effectiveness of cough. Hosts Ianessa...
01.31.2017
What's the deal with e-stim?
So, what's the deal with e-stim? A question that is often asked. In this episode of Down the Hatch (the podcast about swallowing), doctoral student and SLP Alicia Vose and Assoc. Prof and mentor Ianessa Humbert re-unite after a brief...
12.24.2016
Addressing the researcher-clinician divide and intro to Dysphagia Grand Rounds
The researcher-clinician divide in dysphagia management is real. In this installment of DOWN THE HATCH (the swallowing podcast), clinician SLP Rinki Varindani Desai M.A., CCC-SLP and researcher Ianessa Humbert, Ph.D.,CCC-SLP (host of Down the Hatch) candidly discuss the problems and...
11.26.2016
Swallowing Disorders In Parkinson's Disease (DTH 5)
Parkinson's Disease (PD) can lead to swallowing disorders (dysphagia). Swallowing disorders in PD can be serious because it can lead to aspiration pneumonia, which is one of the most common causes of death in PD. In response to a special...
07.04.2016
Advocacy in dysphagia management: A Neurologist's perspective (Guest: Dr. Michael Okun)
Physicians play a critical role in dysphagia management, even though swallowing may not have been included in their medical training. This installment of Down the Hatch features a conversation with Dr. Michael Okun, Department Chair of Neurology and Co-Director of...
04.06.2016
What Is Normal?
Swallowing clinicians made it clear that they want more CEUs on normal swallowing at the March 2016 Critical Thinking in Dysphagia Management meeting. In this podcast, Alicia and Ianessa bust a few myths regarding normal characteristics of swallowing and unnecessary...
02.16.2016
Everybody's Doing It (Down the Hatch)
Not all swallowing clinicians have access to instrumental examinations, such as videofluoroscopy or fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing, but almost all swallowing clinicians can do clinical examinations. In this episode of Down the Hatch, Ianessa and Alicia weigh in on...

What's Down the Hatch - The Swallowing Podcast about?

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Down the Hatch - The Swallowing Podcast episodes:

Motor Learning: Swallow Neurophysiology Series

Cranial Nerves

#SLPsofemale

Swallowing Sensation and Perception

Experience Dependent Plasticity in Dysphagia Management

Swallowing Neural Control: 101

COVID Era and SLP dysphagia practice

Re-release: Dysphagia Documentation Dilemma

#slpsowhite

Response to the Give Hope Podcast

Head and Neck Cancer

GIVE HOPE! Reflections on Living with a Swallowing Disorder

Experience versus Expertise Part 1

The Swallowing Physiology Series: Pharynx and UES

Swallowing Physiology Series: Laryngeal Vestibule Closure

The Swallowing Physiology Series: Swallow Trigger

ASHA What Have You Done For Me Lately?

The Swallowing Physiology Series: Base of Tongue Retraction

The Swallowing Physiology Series: Oral Preparation

Tell Me What To Do!

12 Step Plan for Competence in Dysphagia Management: Acceptance

INTO the Mouth of Babes: A Pediatric Dysphagia Primer

Gender Bias in Communication Sciences & Disorders

Diet & Exercise

The Big Squeeze

Wreak Havoc: Are you sure your dysphagic patients need strengthening?

Expert Rant#2: Be the expert ... SLPs can win the confidence of physicians

50 Shades of GRAY: Addressing the SLP relationship with Radiology

2017 Year In Review

Evidence Based Practice or Theory Based Practice?

EXPERT RANT #1 with Dr. Catriona Steele

Piecing together the Clinical Swallowing Evaluation (CSE)

SLP Solidarity

The State of Dysphagia Education And Training

DtH 9 Dysphagia Documentation Dilemma

DtH 9 Dysphagia Documentation Dilemma

Expiratory Muscle Strength Training in Dysphagia Management

What's the deal with e-stim?

Addressing the researcher-clinician divide and intro to Dysphagia Grand Rounds

Swallowing Disorders In Parkinson's Disease (DTH 5)

Advocacy in dysphagia management: A Neurologist's perspective (Guest: Dr. Michael Okun)

What Is Normal?

Everybody's Doing It (Down the Hatch)

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