Swallow Your Pride Podcast

Luis Riquelme joins us this week to talk about a wide variety of issues facing MedSLPs, and to outline a vision of what our profession and education might look like in the future. The post 085 – Luis F. Riquelme, CCC-SLP – Representation Matters (And You Get It By Voting) appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Craig Coleman breaks down how we can use get ASHA on our side and best advocate for the tools we need. Listen In! The post 084 – Craig Coleman CCC-SLP – Advocacy and ASHA Elections appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Jennifer Kizner shares how to toe the line of describing without diagnosing when things look funky in the pharynx. The post 083 – Jennifer Kizner M.Ed CCC/SLP, BCS-S – Let’s FEES It Up! How to Start an Endoscopy Program – Part 2 appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

In this two part episode, Jennifer talks about not only what’s needed for individual competency, but also how to get your facility’s FEES program up and running. The post 082 – Jennifer Kizner M.Ed CCC/SLP, BCS-S – Let’s FEES It Up! How to Start an Endoscopy Program appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

We have all heard of muscle tension dysphonia, and today Christina Kang leads us into the world of muscle tension dysphagia. The post 081 – Christina H. Kang, M.M., M.S., CCC-SLP – Feeling the Pressure: Muscle Tension Dysphagia appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Taylor guides us through the ins and outs particular to inpatient rehab, outlining the specific hurdles of this setting and how to jump them. The post 080 – Taylor Evans M.Ed, CCC-SLP – Attention IRFlings: All About Inpatient Rehab – Part 2 appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Inpatient rehab has it’s own quirks, just like SNFland, home health, and acute care. Taylor Evans is here to show us the lay of the land. The post 079 – Taylor Evans M.Ed, CCC-SLP – Attention IRFlings: All About Inpatient Rehab appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Jessica Lasky is back to talk about how to get ethical, and some great resources to support your best ethical practice. The post 078 – Jessica Lasky, MS, CCC-SLP – Ethically Speaking: The Entanglement of Billing and Treatment Efficacy appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

All you have to do is ask! You know how they ask you why you want to be an SLP on your grad school applications and we all write about how we just want to help people? But you really mean it? The post 077 – Jessica Lasky MS, CCC-SLP – You Had Me at Hello, or Why to Reach Out to Other SLPs to Advance Your Career appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Laurie Wennerholm shares the latest research and current best practices for assessment and treatment of dysphagia in a population we never used to treat for dysphagia. The post 076 – Laurie Wennerholm MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S – Dysphagia without Aspiration: A Closer Look at Total Laryngectomy appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Kelsey Day picks up where we left off last time. Now you have your assessment done, where do we go in treatment with trach patients in the ICU? The post 075 – Kelsey Day M.S., CCC-SLP – Volunteer Yourself! (The Secret to Starting Treatment of ICU Vent Patients) appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Kelsey Day explains how the PT ICU model of early mobility is a path we can follow as SLPs to get in early to work with vent-dependent patients to stop (and hopefully reverse) disuse atrophy. The post 074 – Kelsey Day M.S., CCC-SLP – Wait and See Is Not the Way: Trach, Vent, & Swallow in the ICU appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

If you’re into grainy sludge, feel free to skip this episode. For the rest of us, John Holahan, founder of Simply Thick, is here to talk about xanthan gum, rheology, and IDDSI. The post 073 – John Holahan, MBA Founder of SimplyThick – Through Thick and Thin: Xantham Gum and IDDS Implementation appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Meredith Oakey Ashford has come to share suggestions for conversation starters, mindset, and the SPIKES framework for delivering bad news. The post 072 – Meredith Oakey Ashford, MA, CCC-SLP – Palliative Care: Discussions in Dysphagia at a Crossroads appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

This was a really random, solo, vulnerable episode that I decided to record at noon today. Not your average interview nor what I had planned, but something that’s been bugging me. I’ve had so many conversations lately with MedSLPs that are just so burnt out and wanting to leave the field, and it really is easy to blame the system, but what if we viewed things from a different lens? The post 071 –...

Michelle Deghan discusses how to approach complex cases post-ACDF—from evaluation and treatment techniques to the current research. The post 070 – Michelle Deghan, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S – How do you solve a problem like edema? All things ACDF appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

In this episode, Dr. Sonya Molfenter discusses some of her prior work on normal variability, and what it means for you, the clinician. The post 069 – Sonja Molfenter, Ph. D., CCC-SLP – On Pharyngometry and Presbyphagia, Big Pharynx, Weak Pharynx appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Dr. Paula Leslie and Dr. Marty Brodsky are back for part 2 of our jam session “At the Table…” More Content or Critical Thinking? The post 068 – Martin B. Brodsky, Ph. D., ScM, CCC-SLP and Paula Leslie, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, FRCSLT – Part 2 of At the Table: Blogging away the Researcher-Clinician Divide appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Dr. Paula Leslie and Dr. Marty Brodsky are back to discuss what we can do to bridge the researcher-clinician divide. The post 067 – Martin B. Brodsky, Ph. D., ScM, CCC-SLP and Paula Leslie, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, FRCSLT – At the Table: Blogging away the Researcher-Clinician Divide appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

This episode, Megan Nosol discusses the barriers to getting started on a PhD, how to work around them. The post 066 – Megan Nosol – So You Want To Get Your PhD? appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Tiffani Wallace has found your beloved home programs covered in dust under the couch and is here to tell us where to go next. The post 065 – Tiffani Wallace, M.A., CCC-SLP, BCS-S – Swallowing in their Natural Habitat: Home Health Dysphagia Therapy appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Dr. Troche also talks about the future of cough research ongoing in her own lab and how she is using biofeedback to work on improving accuracy of urge to cough. The post 064 – Dr. Michelle Troche – Down with Dystussia! How Treatment of Cough Dysfunction Can Improve Dysphagia appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Dr. Michelle Troche is here to remind us why we all fell in love with our frenemy cough in the first place, and to tell us how we can amp up our clinical practice if we pay attention to cough the right way. The post 063 – Dr. Michelle Troche – Hypotussic and Hurting: The Link Between Cough & Swallow appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

An old swallow is not always a bad swallow, and Yvette McCoy is here to tell us more in this episode of Swallow Your Pride. The post 062 – Yvette McCoy MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S – Elderly but Effective: A Presbyphagia Primer appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .

Zachary Smith talks through ideas for how to reach out and get everyone else as excited about swallowing and speech pathology as we all are. The post 061 – Zachary Smith M.S., CCC-SLP – Call Me Maybe? Building Caseload in the Acute Care Setting appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast .