Joan Ma

Attending many great talks at #ESSD2025 in Athens, and a great opportunity to present our work on using the compartmental tongue theory to reshape how we quantify tongue movement in swallowing.

Swallowing in a new light: how ultrasound could transform care In this hands-on, interactive workshop, you'll explore how ultrasound is opening a new window into the science of swallowing.

Curious about what happens when you are swallowing. Come join us this in-person workshop at the Curious Festival @royalsoced.bsky.social and see your own swallow in real time!
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Thanks to the funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, I was able to spend a year focusing on developing the SwallowVision project. Found out more about this project here:

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Working with the new tongue tracker provides us with new perspectives on how we can quantify tongue movement in #swallowing and how it can be applied to #dysphagia assessment, management and outcome measures.

Glossogram with dark red indicating constriction and blue diagonal (tongue compartment contracted) demonstrating peristaltic transfer of water bolus from oral-pharyngeal. This is easiest to explain as sequential extension of neuromuscular compartments of the tongue.

👇Paper by @drjoanma.bsky.social et al using Ultrasound to evaluate hyoid function. Differences between continuous and discrete swallows in healthy participants. Very interesting to see this area of development with SLT.

The Application of Ultrasound Evaluation of Swallowing to the Analysis of Hyoid Kinematics in Healthy Swallows Purpose: Using ultrasound as an adjunct tool for swallowing assessment has gained significant momentum in recent years, with research gaps in are...

🆓🆕🔓 In @ashajournals.bsky.social @drjoanma.bsky.social & @awrench.bsky.social (the bloke's a legend!) 2025. The Application of Ultrasound Evaluation of #Swallowing to the Analysis of Hyoid Kinematics in Healthy Swallows. JSLHR, 68(5), 2205–2217. doi.org/10.1044/2025...
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #slpeeps

The Application of Ultrasound Evaluation of Swallowing to the Analysis of Hyoid Kinematics in Healthy Swallows Purpose: Using ultrasound as an adjunct tool for swallowing assessment has gained significant momentum in recent years, with research gaps in are...

This new #OpenAccess study outlines the recording protocol of Ultrasound Evaluation of Swallowing, providing details on equipment specification, recording procedures, and image acquisition.

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The Application of Ultrasound Evaluation of Swallowing to the Analysis of Hyoid Kinematics in Healthy Swallows Purpose: Using ultrasound as an adjunct tool for swallowing assessment has gained significant momentum in recent years, with research gaps in are...

Our study on ‘The Application of Ultrasound Evaluation of Swallowing to the Analysis of Hyoid Kinematics in Healthy Swallows’ is now out, in it we discuss our protocol & hyoid analysis.

🔗 pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

Thank you to Dynamic Earth for having us as part of their career fair. We had a great time engaging with the young learners on the role of speech and language therapists and using ultrasound to visualise their speech and swallowing.

👉Considering a PhD as your next step in your career development?
👉Interested in how ultrasound could be used to enhance SLT clinical practice?
The PhD bursary application is open until 14 March. Get in touch if you are interested.

Unique opportunity to study Ultrasound in swallowing! See below for details 👇👇

Doctoral Bursaries - Clinical Audiology, Speech and Language Research Centre | Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh Bursary topics in the Clinical Audiology, Speech and Language Research Centre as part the of the 2023 PhD Bursary at QMU, Edinburgh.

Opps! Thanks Lisa. This is the correct link:
www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/p...

Calling for SLTs thinking about research! PhD bursary competition with an opportunity to pursue a project on #ultrasound and #speech and language therapy is now open.
qmu.ac.uk/study-here/p...
Get in touch!

Thanks @sallymorganslt.bsky.social!🙂