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Physiological Models of Swallowing

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Swallowing is a complex activity in humans that involves coordinated activity of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, and esophagus. Thorough knowledge of these physiological processes is necessary to understand the complexity of swallowing and serves as an essential module for explaining the fundamental mechanisms that operate in swallowing activity. In addition, an understanding of the mechanism of swallowing allows us to formulate new questions that serve as the basis for experiments and detect specific problems that must be managed in the clinical setting. The swallowing sequence is divided into stages, each involving different food management behaviors. Two common models of drinking and eating are widely used.

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine I, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

    Kannit Pongpipatpaiboon, Yoichiro Aoyagi, Seiko Shibata & Hitoshi Kagaya

  2. Faculty of Rehabilitation, School of Health Sciences, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

    Yoko Inamoto

  3. Department of Dentistry, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

    Koichiro Matsuo

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Pongpipatpaiboon, K., Inamoto, Y., Matsuo, K., Aoyagi, Y., Shibata, S., Kagaya, H. (2018). Physiological Models of Swallowing. In: Saitoh, E., Pongpipatpaiboon, K., Inamoto, Y., Kagaya, H. (eds) Dysphagia Evaluation and Treatment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5032-9_3

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