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Down the Hatch - The Swallowing Podcast

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Episode publication activity over the past year

Episodes

Motor Learning: Swallow Neurophysiology Series

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Motor Learning: Swallow Neurophysiology Series by Down the Hatch - The Swallowing Podcast

Cranial Nerves

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

#SLPsofemale

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

Swallowing Sensation and Perception

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Experience Dependent Plasticity in Dysphagia Management

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you decide which patients will have swallowing therapy or modified diets? Are you aware of your role in modifying Experience Dependent Plasticity a...

Swallowing Neural Control: 101

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Back by popular demand, Down the Hatch’s Swallowing Physiology Series is now focused on neural control! In our Swallowing NEUROPhysiology Series, ho...

COVID Era and SLP dysphagia practice

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has drastically changed health care practice around the world. Many medical speech language pathologists are uncer...

Re-release: Dysphagia Documentation Dilemma

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 q...

#slpsowhite

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The field of Speech Language Pathology is 95% white female. As a result, efforts to increase diversity in this discipline have been ongoing, yet somew...

Response to the Give Hope Podcast

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“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 ever...

Head and Neck Cancer

11 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Head and neck cancer can cause devastating swallowing problems, requiring a unique approach. This episode of Down the Hatch (The Swallowing Podcast) i...

GIVE HOPE! Reflections on Living with a Swallowing Disorder

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“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 b...

Experience versus Expertise Part 1

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What is an expert? Do more years of experience guarantee a deepening of knowledge? Do scientists think differently than clinicians? In this episode of...

The Swallowing Physiology Series: Pharynx and UES

16 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this last episode of The Swallowing Physiology Series, hosts Alicia Vose and Ianessa Humbert tackle both the pharynx and the upper esophageal sphin...

Swallowing Physiology Series: Laryngeal Vestibule Closure

10 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Laryngeal vestibule closure (LVC)is one of the most complicated and critical swallowing events, but it remains poorly understood. In this episode of D...

The Swallowing Physiology Series: Swallow Trigger

05 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, an overwhelming 92% of clinicians responded “NO” to the question: Did you feel prepared to assess and treat swallowing disorders upon gr...

ASHA What Have You Done For Me Lately?

20 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

ASHA... What are you doing for your membership? For quality improvement of dysphagia management? This is a common question among ASHA members. In this...

The Swallowing Physiology Series: Base of Tongue Retraction

20 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, an overwhelming 92% of clinicians responded “NO” to the question: Did you feel prepared to assess and treat swallowing disorders upon gr...

The Swallowing Physiology Series: Oral Preparation

01 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, an overwhelming 92% of clinicians responded “NO” to the question: Did you feel prepared to assess and treat swallowing disorders upon gr...

Tell Me What To Do!

13 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 proble...

12 Step Plan for Competence in Dysphagia Management: Acceptance

12 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The data are abysmal! In a recent publication, partly authored by Down the Hatch Hosts Alicia Vose and Ianessa Humbert, we reveal that SLP identificat...

INTO the Mouth of Babes: A Pediatric Dysphagia Primer

02 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

To address feeding and swallowing impairments in the pediatric population, one requires highly specialized knowledge. Still, pediatric dysphagia is ex...

Gender Bias in Communication Sciences & Disorders

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The field of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) faces a critical shortage of the faculty essential to train the future workforce of Speech-Lan...

Diet & Exercise

07 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Diet modifications and swallowing exercises are a mainstay in dysphagia rehabilitation, but do they truly prevent aspiration pneumonia or rehabilitate...

The Big Squeeze

09 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Does more pharyngeal residue mean that there is reduced pharyngeal pressure? Do greater pharyngeal pressures occur when swallowing thicker boluses? Do...

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

31 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This installment is focused on the topic of weakness and fatigue. Have you ever decided that one of your dysphagic patients needs strength training? I...

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

06 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"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 ...

50 Shades of GRAY: Addressing the SLP relationship with Radiology

06 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 installme...

2017 Year In Review

10 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 elect...

Evidence Based Practice or Theory Based Practice?

30 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Are you a research-thumping, Evidence Based Practice evangelical? Or, perhaps you are tired of hearing that your go-to therapies are “not evidence b...

EXPERT RANT #1 with Dr. Catriona Steele

02 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Down the Hatch (Swallowing Podcast) lucky number 13! Dr. Catriona Steele, a prolific scientist and swallowing expert, launches the first episode in ou...

Piecing together the Clinical Swallowing Evaluation (CSE)

30 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Clinical Swallowing Evaluation (CSE) is a critical part of dysphagia management. However, it is often misused and over interpreted. In this high-e...

SLP Solidarity

04 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 V...

The State of Dysphagia Education And Training

12 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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., ...

DtH 9 Dysphagia Documentation Dilemma

27 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It happens every time. A particular question is posed by one member of an audience of speech language pathologists who treat dysphagia. The question i...

Expiratory Muscle Strength Training in Dysphagia Management

12 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Expiratory muscle strength training (EMST) is a device driven-therapy based in exercise physiology principles and used in dysphagia management. Althou...

What's the deal with e-stim?

31 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 an...

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

24 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The researcher-clinician divide in dysphagia management is real. In this installment of DOWN THE HATCH (the swallowing podcast), clinician SLP Rinki V...

Swallowing Disorders In Parkinson's Disease (DTH 5)

26 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Parkinson's Disease (PD) can lead to swallowing disorders (dysphagia). Swallowing disorders in PD can be serious because it can lead to aspiration pne...

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

04 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Physicians play a critical role in dysphagia management, even though swallowing may not have been included in their medical training. This installment...

What Is Normal?

06 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Swallowing clinicians made it clear that they want more CEUs on normal swallowing at the March 2016 Critical Thinking in Dysphagia Management meeting....

Everybody's Doing It (Down the Hatch)

16 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Not all swallowing clinicians have access to instrumental examinations, such as videofluoroscopy or fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing, bu...