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Joan Ma @drjoanma.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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.

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Joan Ma @drjoanma.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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: t.co/fPhvrirn0Q

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https://rse.org.uk/ultrasound-evaluation-of-swallowing-clinical-feasibility-and-stakeholders-engagement/

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Joan Ma @drjoanma.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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.

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Alan Wrench @awrench.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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.

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Lisa Everton @lisa-everton.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

👇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.

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Joan Ma @drjoanma.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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/...

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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...

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Joan Ma @drjoanma.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

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.

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Joan Ma @drjoanma.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

👉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.

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Lisa Everton @lisa-everton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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

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Joan Ma @drjoanma.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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!

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