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Welcome back to our free evidence-based Rehabilitation Reference Center Update. You are receiving this newsletter because you are a subscriber of CINAHL and/or Rehabilitation Reference Center. Please share this with your colleagues, students, practitioners and others who would appreciate awareness of this information.
Rehabilitation Reference Center™ (RRC) is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians at the point-of-care. RRC provides physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and rehabilitation students with the best available evidence to provide the highest quality care and improve patient outcomes.
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Rehabilitation Reference Center in Daily Practice
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Josh is a physical therapy student doing an internship in a veterinary clinic. He would like to learn more about physical therapy for animals.
He consults Rehabilitation Reference Center, keying in physical therapy for animals. He consults the clinical review "Physical Therapy for Animals."
He reads about physical therapy for animals, including description, indications, guidelines, and contraindications. Then, he reviews the physical therapy examination and treatment for animals.
Note: The above referenced Clinical Review is freely accessible to all readers of the Rehabilitation Reference Center Update.
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| Quick Overview |
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Caring for Patients with Medication-related Dysphagia
Medication-related dysphagia refers to difficulty swallowing due to an inability to move food or liquid efficiently during the oral, pharyngeal, or esophageal phase of swallowing as a medication side effect. Speech therapy examination for patients with medication-related dysphagia include a thorough oral mechanism examination, swallow examination, and a speech and language examination.
Speech therapy treatment typically includes diet modification, postural therapy, swallow maneuvers, and enteral feeding.
You can read the Clinical Review on "Dysphagia: Medication-related" by logging into your subscription of Rehabilitation Reference Center.
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| Evidence-based Content Update |
Recently, the clinical review Multiple Sclerosis: Communication Deficits was revised following review under the systematic literature surveillance program. Information of value to speech therapy practice regarding communication deficits in patients with multiple sclerosis was a case report.
The results of the case report indicated that glossopharyngeal breathing (GPB), a technique in which an individual is taught to suck air into the mouth and then push it back into the lungs with the tongue and pharynx for the purpose of increasing vital capacity and improving ventilation, improved the speech and respiratory function of a patient with MS over time and that the patient's respiratory function without GPB deteriorated over time.
We invite you to login to the Rehabilitation Reference Center to read new and updated clinical reviews as they become available.
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