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[Music] so the next question you might ask is what is aspiration well when I train my patients on aspiration I use an iPad app to do so so we're going to switch over to viewing my iPad okay what we have here is an image of a person and it's as though you've been sliced right down the nose so on the back side here you'll see the spine here on the front is the nose the lips the chin and then on down to the throat so first I'm going to introduce the most wonderful muscle in the entire body the tongue you'll be surprised that it is actually a pretty large muscle we normally just see this top part when you know and when you're looking in your mouth or you stick out your tongue but it extends way down here below your chin and it plays a really important role it works hard to organize food get the food ready to swallow and then the back side of your tongue plays a key role in being the first force of propulsion to push that that food or liquid down into the throat all right next let's talk ab