Swallowing Exercises Tracking Sheet

These can be printed by your clinician to allow them to customize your swallowing exercise routine.

Swallowing exercises tracking sheet.

Before you swallow you chew your food to a size shape and texture that can be swallowed. A workout log is a schedule that helps you to plan for your fitness activities. Keep sucking on the straw as you carry the straw over to a cup and stop sucking to release the paper into the cup. While outcome tracking tools are less commonly used in the clinical setting there are many potential benefits to clinicians.

Turn your head to the left and then swallow hard. Swallowing exercises during and after treatment has finished. These exercises help strengthen swallowing muscles. Improves movement of the tongue base and pharynx throat.

Helps upward movement of the larynx voice box and the opening of the esophagus. 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. It involves swallowing your own saliva. Next place a straw in your mouth and suck on the straw allowing the paper to get picked up by the tip of the straw.

The exercises shown in this pamphlet help to stretch and strengthen the muscles in your mouth and throat. From here the food or liquid passes through a. Tuck your chin and hold the towel in place without using your hands. To achieve good results at the end of the.

When you swallow this material it passes through your mouth and down through parts of your throat called the pharynx and larynx. 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. To do this exercise keep your adam s apple elevated for about two to five seconds each time. Place multiple small pieces of paper on a towel in front of you.

The following exercises will be explained on the nfosd swallow exercise page. Using tracking tools to. Open jaw as far as you can and hold for 10 seconds. Place a rolled hand towel between your neck and chest.

These exercises are sometimes used with other types of swallowing exercises. Do 5 reps 2 times per day. 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. And then swallow hard.

Tongue range of motion. 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. Rest for 10 seconds.