The phrase "a swallowing problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a medical condition or difficulty related to swallowing food or liquids.
Example: "After her surgery, she developed a swallowing problem that required therapy to improve."
Alternatives: "dysphagia" or "difficulty swallowing".
Study Design and Setting: TNE was prospectively performed on 14 consecutive out-patients with dysphagia whose initial oropharyngeal dysphagia evaluation was insufficient to reveal the cause of their swallowing problem.
The improvement in the BMM for all bolus consistencies, the FOM and QOL evaluations followed a more or less linear curve indicating the patient's gain continue smoothly throughout the therapy period and the beneficial effects of the BRAT to control the swallowing problem.
In the clinical complications domain, ten of the twenty-eight items have odds ratios less than 1.3, including the continence measures, pain, swallowing problem, hallucinations, and delusions.
The aim of this study was to evaluate feasibility, reliability, validity of the SWAL-QOL (a questionnaire on swallowing problems in daily life), and to define sample size calculations and a clinically relevant cut-off score.
Moreover, dysphagia is a common and distressing problem following neurological injury, and patients with swallowing problems following a stroke have a significantly higher morbidity and mortality compared with their nondysphagic peers (38).
Over one third of people affected by a stroke have subsequent swallowing problems which can lead to choking or aspiration.
18 A study by Wilkinson and de Picciotto 19 investigated the prevalence of subjectively reported swallowing problems, in a group of retirement village residents.
Only those patients deemed to be at high risk of deterioration, such as those with stroke-related swallowing problems, remained a high priority for AH irrespective of their discharge pathway.
A further limitation is potential variability in the need for particular services due to the individual nature of the disease; a PD patient who does not have significant speech or swallowing problems would not require a speech therapist and could therefore be unaware of having access to this service.
Its symptoms can include tremors and other uncontrollable movements, impaired balance and co-ordination, stiffness, slowness of movement, loss of smell, a decline in intellectual functioning, and speech and swallowing problems.
