Table 5.

Dysphagia Therapeutic Techniques

Treatment Technique	Effect on Swallow Function
Effortful Swallow	Improves base of tongue retraction during the swallow and improves clearance of the bolus from the vallecula (Speyer, 2012)
Mendelsohn Maneuver	Increases extent and duration of laryngeal elevation and thereby enhancing during and width of cricopharyngeal opening (Logemann, 2010)
Shaker Exercise (Head lift exercise)	Indicated for patients with reduced extent or duration of cricopharyngeal opening resulting in pyriform sinus residue (Speyer, 2012).
Supraglottic Safety Swallow	Breath hold closes vocal folds prior to swallow initiation and clears possible residue from the laryngeal vestibule (Speyer, 2012)
Super-Supraglottic Safety Swallow	Increase chance of true vocal fold and false vocal fold closure by bearing down (Speyer, 2012)
Tongue Hold Exercise	Improves contact between the base of tongue and posterior pharyngeal wall (Speyer, 2012)