IAOM 2021 Session 10 | Evolution, Comparative Zoology, and The (sleeping) Pharyngeal Airway
Evolution and comparative zoology provide a framework for understanding the functional units of feeding and breathing. Imaging data suggests that the longitudinal pharyngeal muscles in general, and stylopharyngeus in particular, play and underappreciated role in airway stability during sleep. These muscles should be targeted for myofunctional rehabilitation of OSA.
1. Participants will be able to identify the functional units of the upper aerodigestive tract.
2. Participants will be able describe some of the different swallowing patterns used in reptiles and mammals.
3. Participants will be able to recognize the signs and symptoms of decreased tone of the longitudinal pharyngeal muscles.
4. Participants will recognize therapeutic exercises that target the longitudinal pharyngeal muscles.
50 minutes: Evolution of the pharynx
10 minutes: Questions and Answers
50 minutes: The Role of the longitudinal muscles in OSA
10 minutes: Questions and Answers
Total time: 2.0 hours
About Dr. Denise Dewald, MD:
Denise Dewald, MD is a senior research fellow in sleep medicine at the University Hospitals/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Dewald trained in myofunctional therapy under Joy Moeller while working as a primary care physician, and subsequently became a sleep medicine specialist. Dr. Dewald received her MD degree from Washington University in St. Louis and completed a combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
She completed sleep medicine fellowship at Case Western Reserve University and remains there on a research fellowship focusing on the neuromuscular patterns underlying OSA.
Financial Disclosures: Speaker Honorarium and Conference Registration Fee Waived
Non-Financial Disclosures: None
To receive CE Credit for this session, participants must view the entire 2-hour session and correctly answer 4/5 quiz questions.
Participants will earn 0.2 ASHA CEUs, intermediate level, for attendance of this 2-hour session. |
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This course is not pre approved for AOTA continuing education credit. |
