What is Swallowing Therapy ?

Difficulty in swallowing or dysphagia can be characterised by having to swallow multiple times to clear food from the mouth/throat.

If often occurs as a result of stroke and also various other neurological conditions.

Our team of experts assess the cause and identifies the difficulties it causes for our client in everyday life. If not identified and managed, it can lead to:

  • Poor nutrition
  • Pneumonia (due to aspiration).
  • Increased disability

Based on our extensive assessment therapy efforts are designed to improve:

  • Safety
  • ease and efficiency of swallowing

This is achieved through

  • Swallowing exercises
  • Compensatory strategies

Vital Stim

The vital Stim therapy system is an adjunctive modality to traditional exercise that unites the power of electrical stimulation with the benefits of swallowing exercises.

Benefits

  • Accelerate Strengthening
  • Restore Function
  • Help the brain revamp swallowing