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Texture-Modified Diets and Mealtime
Sparking Joy with Food Again You may recognize the term texture-modified diet from your Speech-Language Pathologist (S-LP) after you were diagnosed with a medical condition such as dysphagia (a swallowing disorder). These diets are often recommended to help make...
Advocating for dysphagia rights: Meet the Dysphagia Chef
If you have ever struggled with dysphagia, you will know the fatigue of explaining what a swallowing disorder is and how it affects your life. Amongst the health professionals on your team, there is another professional out there making life for people with dysphagia...
Achieving success in swallowing disorders
Tips for succeeding in your exercise program With the holiday season and the start of a new year around the corner, many minds turn to New Year’s resolutions. Exercise and healthy habits are a common theme when people are asked about what goals they will set out to...
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Speaking Up about Swallowing Disorders
A Journey into Self-Advocacy Dysphagia (swallowing disorders) are among the many “invisible disabilities” that surround us. Research supports that the general population has very little awareness of dysphagia [1]. This leaves the burden on those with dysphagia to...
“I can actually eat a burger now!”
Mobile health technology shows promising results for patients with head and neck cancer. This past Thanksgiving, Leslie O’Connor-Parsons enjoyed a full meal with turkey and stuffing for the first time in five years. Thanks to Mobili-T®, the first mobile home-based...
A First-Head Experience With Mobili-T®
Ted Power, a head and neck cancer survivor, discusses his personal experience with Mobili-T® clinical trial after undergoing tongue surgery. View Article
Dysphagia
Texture-Modified Diets and Mealtime
Sparking Joy with Food Again You may recognize the term texture-modified diet from your Speech-Language Pathologist (S-LP) after you were diagnosed with a medical condition such as dysphagia (a swallowing disorder). These diets are often recommended to help make...
Advocating for dysphagia rights: Meet the Dysphagia Chef
If you have ever struggled with dysphagia, you will know the fatigue of explaining what a swallowing disorder is and how it affects your life. Amongst the health professionals on your team, there is another professional out there making life for people with dysphagia...
Achieving success in swallowing disorders
Tips for succeeding in your exercise program With the holiday season and the start of a new year around the corner, many minds turn to New Year’s resolutions. Exercise and healthy habits are a common theme when people are asked about what goals they will set out to...
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A look at the top health innovations in Edmonton for 2019
Su-Ling Goh takes a look at the top health innovations in Edmonton for 2019. True Angle Medical feature starts at 1:45.
The Globe and Mail – Health & Fitness
Researchers say new technology helps some patients with neck and tongue cancer relearn how to swallow food Lesley O’Connor-Parsons expected never to eat solid foods again. But after participating in the six-week trial of a new mobile technology aimed at helping...
CBC – Radio Canada ICI Alberta
Un nouvel appareil portable permet aux dysphagiques de réapprendre à avaler des solides. Une équipe de chercheurs de l'Université de l'Alberta a mis au point une technologie qui pourrait redonner aux patients atteints de dysphagie la capacité de manger des aliments...