[Dysphagia] Chin tuck?

[sorriso at adelphia.net (sorriso@adelphia.net)]

Cynthia, the "chin tuck" is not an ultimate fix (obviously since your Mom's doing the tuck and still experiencing symptoms :) ); it's beyond frustrating that school has taught you that.  

You also need to define chin tuck.  Are you talking about the retroflexed chin position (true chin tuck as defined by GI docs and inserviced to the list by Dr. Irene Campbell-Taylor) or chin down position? 

Access this list daily, you'll learn so much from its members!  (I learned both of the above points here, not in school.)

Linda A. Zanchi, MA CCC-SLP 


---- CynthiaAAndrews@aol.com wrote: 
> Hi!  My Mom has not been dx'd with  Dysphagia as of yet, but oh man, when she 
> takes her pills in the morning, and  then takes her metamucil, I can hear her 
> drowning as she chokes on  it.  I have sat with her and made her do the chin 
> tuck and she is still  doing it.  Any other ideas?  Her doctors say she does 
> not have a  swallowing disorder and yet I can't get any of them to do a MBS on 
> her.   That is the only time she does it, in the morning.  She takes her pills 
>  fine at night.  She drinks iced tea during the day, no  problem.  So perhaps 
> she doesn't or something is lazy in the  morning.  But I'm afraid she's going 
> to aspirate and then I'll have a  really sick, already medically fragile 
> woman on my hands.  I don't know if  it would make any difference but she is on O2 
> at night for emphysema and  CHF.
> Any ideas, I would appreciate since I'm just  starting out and in school the 
> chin tuck was the "ultimate fix".   
> 
> Cynthia Andrews M.A. 
> Speech Language  Pathology
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