Learning objectives:

• Provide a summary of evidence supporting the clinical efficacy of RMST.
  • What is the level of evidence indicating that RMST can induce changes in respiratory, swallowing or motor speech physiology? In which patient populations?
• Provide an overview of principles of exercise physiology and neural plasticity and their application to dysphagia rehabilitation.
  • Provide a clinical framework to support practitioners in decisions about the use of respiratory muscle strength training (RMST) pressure threshold devices with adult clients.
  • Determination of RMST candidacy based on a patient’s medical diagnosis and physiological impairments.
  • Inclusion/exclusion criteria.
• Guide RMST assessment, outcome and treatment procedures.

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