Chin tuck against resistance is an evidenced-based swallowing exercise. Its goal is to improve oral pharyngeal swallowing in patients with dysphagia by strengthening the suprahyoid muscles. The exercise aims to do this by increasing laryngeal elevation, epiglottic …

2024年2月15日 · One effective exercise for dysphagia rehabilitation is the chin tuck against resistance (CTAR) exercise. This exercise involves strengthening the suprahyoid muscles that play a vital role in laryngeal elevation during swallowing.

CTAR exercise more selectively activates the suprahyoid muscle and is an effective therapeutic exercise for improving swallowing function in patients with dysphagia. Because it is less strenuous than Shaker exercise, it requires less physical burden and effort, allowing greater compliance.

Purpose: To strengthen the suprahyoid muscles used in swallowing. The suprahyoid muscles are important to open your upper food pipe sphincter (upper esophageal sphincter) to allow food to …

2020年5月31日 · Chin Tuck Against Resistance (CTAR) exercise is suitable for most patients with swallowing difficulties / dysphagia: dysphagia or swallowing difficulties following strokes, dysphagia following head and neck cancer,

2019年10月15日 · Evaluating the training effects of two swallowing rehabilitation therapies using surface electromyography—Chin tuck against resistance (CTAR) exercise and the Shaker exercise. Dysphagia, 31(2), 195-205.

CTAR is a strength-based exercise intended to strengthen the perihyoid muscles. This tutorial will take you through the steps for prescribing and instructing the CTAR exercise. First, before recommending CTAR for a patient, it is important to determine if …

Several exercise methods, such as the Shaker exercise, tongue press exercise, chin tuck against resistance (CTAR) exercise, and submandibular push exercise, have been introduced to strengthen the muscles involved in swallowing.

The Chin Tuck Against Resistance Exercise (The CTAR Exercise) The Chin Tuck Against Resistance Exercise is really a very simple concept. You are simply tucking your chin down, or pressing or nodding your chin in a downward motion, against resistance.

2020年5月31日 · The Chin Tuck Againt Resistance (CTAR) exercise works on strengthening the suprahyoid muscles, necessary for opening your upper food pipe sphincter (or known as the upper esophageal...