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[Dysphagia] dysphagia therapy for COPD

Subject: [Dysphagia] dysphagia therapy for COPD
From: sargeantannemarie at yahoo.com (Annemarie Sargeant)
Date: Tue Oct 4 16:42:19 2005
In-reply-to: <0F110B83C64FD943ACEC25E844B373774BBE97@EXCH3.mh.org>

It depends what the cause of the aspiration is.  COPD
itself would not likely cause muscle weakness, but
co-morbidities might.  You might need to dig deeper
into why the person is aspirating before considering a
trial of therapy/oral-motor exercises.  

Annemarie


		
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