Figure 1.
Raw electromyographic traces of swallow stimulated by the three conditions.
Note the increased burst amplitude of the mylohyoid and post-swallow cricopharyngeus with the addition of water, and increased duration of the parasternal muscle electromyogram during pharyngeal swabbing.
Table 1.
Effect of swallow stimuli on normalized electromyogram amplitude (% of maximum) and durations (ms) of selected swallow-related muscles, over the three stimulus conditions.
Figure 2.
Pearson product moment correlation scatter plot examples for the comparisons with the largest r values.
Table 2.
Pearson Correlations comparing electromyogram amplitude and duration during swallowing.