Swallowing Difficulty
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2021 Articles
Respiratory Compression at Birth
A four-year-old girl presents with continual bouts of pneumonia. After four bronchoscopies during her lifetime, her doctor diagnosed her with…
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2021 Articles
Tongue Always Hanging Out, Drooping Eyelid, and Puffy Eye Tissue
New disease applications for the work always seem to find my practice. A six-month-old presented with always having his tongue…
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Severe Infant Breathing Issues
A one-year-old presented this week from outside the Philadelphia area with raspy breathing, difficulty swallowing, and aspiration issues. At birth…
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2021 Articles
The Fascia Is Overlooked
I saw something new this morning at the office. A six-month-old baby had cerebrospinal fluid build-up resulting in an enlarged…
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2021 Articles
The Many Diverse Infant Conditions of the Gillespie Approach
In his poem “The Divine Comedy” Dante describes his travels down the nine circles of the inferno. We are going…
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2020 Articles
Difficulty Burping in Infancy
A Facebook mom writes that her infant never burped and also had reflux. Mom was taking high blood pressure meds…
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2019 Articles
“When Will I Be Finished with Therapy?”
No one knows for sure. When a new patient presents on the first visit, no one knows how many layers…
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2019 Articles
Hospital Presentation Advice for Gillespie Approach Infant Providers
Our work can be game-changing, but it ideally must be done during the first day of life. That needs to…
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2019 Articles
Suck, Swallow, and Breathe Revisited
Newborns need to suck, swallow, and breathe well to thrive. An acceptable suck-swallow-breathe coordinating ratio is 1:1:1 or 2:1:1. Poor…
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2019 Articles
Neck Fascia
In the fascial web, the neck is the isthmus between the lower body and head. The Lancaster infant research showed…
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