Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Kyphosis and dysphagia -- subset of cervical dysphagia

Dysphagia in individuals with Kyphotic – Lordotic Posture 
page 5 has an anatomy diagrams for curved spine
Agnes Gradowski and Susan Graves propose (page 6):

  1. Upturned head position -> elongation and stretch of anterior neck muscles 
  2. Prolonged muscle stretch ->  weakness  
  3. Weak anterior neck muscles -> worse dysphagia

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