This past August, the Mayo Clinic had accomplished what was believed to be impossible… The world’s FIRST successful *total* laryngeal transplant on a patient with active cancer! Doctors at Mayo Clinic Arizona completed the procedure on Marty, a 60-year old man with a rare form of laryngeal cancer called chondrosarcoma. A team of 6 physicians […] The post 343 – Total Laryngeal Transplant: Dr. Lott and Jessica Gregor Share the Details Behind This Major Medical Milestone appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast ..read more

Pssst...did you know that the FREE MedSLP Summit is happening this weekend? It's online...up to 14 hours of education...and 100% dedicated to today's therapy approaches (the what, the how, the why, the wow). And YES, a recording WILL be available to catch the replay! But who the heck is speaking? What's their background? Are they like...cool and knowledgeable? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! In today's episode of the Swallow Your Pride Podcast, I'm going to introduce you to 5 of the brilliant and kind MedSLPs who will be speaking for this weekend's MedSLP Summit. I'm bringing back clips from p ..read more

You know those awkward moments where you can’t hear what someone is saying in a loud environment, so you just nod and agree to whatever they say? …hoping it makes sense to just nod and agree? As a medical SLP, odds are, you’ve worked with patients who have done this to you. Not because you’re providing therapy in a loud environment, but because they have receptive aphasia, or impaired auditory comprehension. While impaired speech and language is easy to pick up on, auditory comprehension is a whole different ballpark… Which is why we’re bring on our beloved aphasia & auditory comprehension ..read more

While we often like to talk about research findings that shows us statistical significance in data and solid numbers we can lean on for treatment approaches… What about the kind of data that ISN’T objectively measured? The kind that shows us what patients or other clinicians experience think, or believe. I’m talking about qualitative research! Is qualitative research viewed as “less reputable” than quantitative research? What kind of valuable information can we pull from patient experiences, opinions, and views? Beatrice Manduchi PhD, MSc, BSc (SLP) is here to talk all about it in today’s epis ..read more

Why rely on tongue depressors when you can give your patients a portable workout device that comes with an app to track their tongue strength, endurance, and exercise results?  That device exists! And it’s improved… Elizabeth Daly and Ed Steger are back on the Swallow Your Pride Podcast with exciting updates on the Tongueometer - a handheld lingual manometer that measures tongue and lip strength and endurance. From Android and iOS compatibility to bluetooth connections to two new research studies using the Tongueometer, this is a dysphagia therapy device all med SLPs should be aware of. G ..read more

How confident are you in the world of… Concussion? Traumatic brain injury? Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in young athletes and military personnel? In this podcast episode, Kelli A. Uitenham CScD, CCC-SLP dives into all of those topics and more as she shares her passion for and specialized work in the world of brain injury.  Dr. Kelli Uitenham is the founder of the Brain Talk Foundation, which raises awareness about neurological conditions like the ones mentioned above. She also runs a private practice and loves bringing in innovative technology into her therapy sessions, like “Si ..read more

We often talk about how aphasia impacts people’s ability to speak or understand language, but what about aphasia’s impact on sign language? Do the hands sometimes sign “apple” instead of “orange” thanks to a semantic paraphasia? If one arm is weak or paralyzed because of a stroke, how does THAT impact someone’s ability to communicate using sign language? Instead of speech-language pathology, would we make the focus sign-language pathology?  Shelby Hill SLPD CCC-SLP QOM, is here to talk all about it - and you WON’T want to miss this discussion! Shelby describes her important work and resea ..read more

Okay, this might sound like a trick question, but…What is dysphagia? This single question might be the most “swallow your pride” kind of question for medical SLPs yet… Because, believe it or not, we have yet to establish a standardized definition of dysphagia! Which is exactly why Martin B. Brodsky Ph.D., Sc.M., CCC-SLP, F-ASHA, and Debra Suiter PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S are putting together a conference called “Defining Dysphagia: In Search of a Unified Definition for the Aging Population” and are joining me on this week’s episode of the Swallow Your Pride Podcast to talk about it! Dr. Brodksy and ..read more

As an SLP, you’re most likely to see a patient when they’re medically stable…but what if you could also be there from the start of their medical emergency?  What if you were part of the team who hops in the ambulance, assesses how critical someone’s condition is, and provides the first attempt in stablizing their health until you can get them to the hospital? That’s what Eleanor Smyser, M.S., CCC-SLP, A-EMT does! Eleanor is both an advanced emergency medical technician (EMT) and medical SLP, and she’s here today to share her experiences and how her training as an EMT has crossed over into ..read more

 Today, we're featuring Part 2 of an episode of the Speeching it Real podcast, where host Christy Ubieta asks Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S all the good questions.   THIS is where you get to learn more about our beloved Swallow Your Pride Podcast and discover things like…. how Theresa almost didn’t become an SLP  why […] The post 335 -From Fashion to FEES to PhD: Theresa Richard’s origin story – Part 2 appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast ..read more