Sitting body posture and the movements for the feeding gesture are interdependent and can worsen an oropharyngeal dysphagia. Their management will have a direct impact on the patient's handicap and will be able to decrease the complications. Clinical process aiming at placing a person having postural disorders, positioning will ensure a base adapted to the person, comfortable, allowing mobility and independence. It requires a methodical accompaniment: evaluation, test, validation, control of adapted equipment for the patient and gesture readjustment.
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Costes, M., Fichaux-Bourin, P., Woisard, V., Grand, S., & Puech, M. (2009). [Positioning in the oropharyngeal dysphagia]. Revue De Laryngologie - Otologie - Rhinologie, 130(1), 61–63.
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