Swallowing

Eating and sharing meals with people you love are some of the great joys of life. Sometimes those simple-seeming pleasures can be disrupted by problems with swallowing.

Swallowing is an intricate process during which our bodies must protect our airway so that food and liquid does not enter our lungs. If any of the muscles or other structures in the throat have been affected by a stroke or other neurological disease, someone might have trouble swallowing solids or liquids normally.

Life is too short to not be able to eat the food you like!

Swallowing therapy aims for you to consume the “least restrictive diet,” meaning we want you to be able to eat what you want to eat with the least hindrance on your daily life as possible. Therapy combines exercises to rehabilitate the swallow, techniques to increase safety during swallowing, and diet texture modifications if necessary.

We want you to have the highest quality of life possible.