Specific information regarding the Communication Sciences and Disorders' Acute Care Speech Language Pathology practicum led by Carley Evans MS CCC SLP. Carley is a medical speech pathologist at the Evelyn Trammell Institute for Voice and Swallowing of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. If you are new to this practicum, start with the oldest post listed in Archive.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

SHAKER Exercise References

Several references for Shaker Exercise:

Easterling C, Grande B, Kern M, Sears K, Shaker R: Attaining and maintaining isometric and isokinetic goals of the "Shaker" Exercise. Dysphagia 20: 133-138, 2005

Easterling C, Kern M, Nitzsche T, Grande B, Kazandjian M, Dikeman K, Massey BT, Shaker R: Restoration of oral feeding in 27 tube fed patients by the Shaker Exercise. Dysphagia 10:66-74, 1999.


Shaker R, Easterling C, Kern M, Nitschke T, Massey B, Daniels S, Grande B, Kazandjian M, Dikeman K: Rehabilitation of swallowing by exercise in tube fed patients with pharyngeal dysphagia secondary to abnormal UES opening. Gastroenterology 122:1314-1321, 2002.

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