External trauma, and events that cause a temporary or long-term injury, can affect the young and old alike. Trauma - violence - to the head and neck region can cause brain damage or whiplash injury and the consequent problems can include swallowing difficulties — dysphagia, or paralysis in the face and pharynx, etc. That is admissions per , of the population. In , there were , admissions for head injury. That equates to every day, or one every three minutes. Men are 1.
Dysphagia: it’s like being waterboarded 24 hours a day
Dysphagia: it’s like being waterboarded 24 hours a day | Mosaic
Doppler sonar analysis of swallowing sounds in normal pediatric individuals. Send Correspondence to. Among the methods for assessing swallowing sounds - videofluoroscopy modified barium study, fiberoptic swallowing endoscopy, neck auscultation through a microphone, accelerometer and, more recently, the Doppler sonar - we have chosen the latter. AIM: to analyze swallowing sounds by cervical auscultation using Doppler sonar, in a population between 2 and 15 years without oro-pharyngeal dysfunction.
Painful conditions of unexplained origin pose a challenging task for the clinician from both the diagnosis and treatment perspective. This might be accounted due to overlapping symptomatology; moreover, nonspecific subjective findings push the diagnostic process to a more perplexing direction. The main loophole in their management lies in difficulty to make an appropriate diagnosis.
The symptoms of facial palsy are many and vary from person to person. The symptoms will depend on the cause of your facial palsy and here we discuss some of the more common symptoms experienced. The onset of your symptoms may be sudden appearing overnight , or may appear over two or three days.