Ampcare, LLC

Ampcare, LLC Ampcare is developing therapeutic neuromuscular stimulation technologies for dysphagia treatment.

AMPCARE, LLC was established in 2007 to develop therapeutic neuromuscular stimulation technologies for the treatment of dysphagia, or swallowing difficulties. Among other accomplishments, AMPCARE has built a strong patent portfolio, generated clinical data and has initiated US regulatory filings and recently received our initial FDA 510k clearance to market the first portion of our device portfoli

o. We are committed to delivering positive patient outcomes and innovative products specifically designed to meet the needs of the patient, medical professional and payer by improving the options and availability of dysphagia treatment techniques. AMPCARE’s unique treatment approach will allow for safer oral intake of food in populations who have difficulty swallowing.

09/04/2026

What? Like y'all don't have these conversations with your patients?!

🫶 Food is a love language and SLPs LOVE supporting all kinds of language

Which is why we're here to support YOU in supporting THEM.

Move your patients from PO trials to full meals sooner by guiding them through Ampcare's Effective Swallowing Protocol.

😅Then enjoy deep discussions about what type of food you would be

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09/03/2026

What does NMES do that sEMG can't?

Surface EMG is a great tool for tracking what a superficial muscles are already doing.

☺️ That's why it can works well for facial movement, where target muscles sit right at the surface.

👀 But for swallowing, the DEEPER muscles doing the real work often get lost under superficial signals.

Even a strong sEMG reading only reflects what the patient can generate on their own.

NMES works differently.

💪 Because electrical stimulation recruits MOTOR units in a nonselective, non-voluntary pattern, it activates more muscle fibers (including deeper ones) that a patient may not be able to reach through effort alone (Gregory & Bickel, 2005).

That's the layer Ampcare's ESP works from, y'all!

Pairing that added recruitment with resistive, task-specific swallowing exercise creates a genuinely more effortful, more challenging swallow than volitional effort alone can produce.

And the name of the dysphagia game is to CHALLENGE the swallow system, right?

Comment ESPTraining if you're ready to challenge your patients' swallow systems, and we'll get you started!

We're ready to help 🫡

Reference:
Chris M Gregory, C Scott Bickel, Recruitment Patterns in Human Skeletal Muscle During Electrical Stimulation, Physical Therapy, Volume 85, Issue 4, 1 April 2005, Pages 358–364,

09/02/2026

*laughs in incident reports*

At least you can say your patient’s roommate has a healthy swallow?

We all make mistakes but at least this mistake involves a surprise snack for a patient, right?

Well, unless that patient you assessed needed to be strict NPO or had an allergy to something you gave them... then that's a different story.

While some folks might think that SLPs don't have a stressful job, we know the opposite is true!

We know you're overworked and stressed over patient safety.

We know you get burnt out, which can sometimes lead to errors like seeing the wrong patient.

That's why we've made our dysphagia therapy protocol as easy-to-use as possible (and as EFFECTIVE as possible).

Dysphagia assessments can be time-consuming and overwhelming, but the therapy doesn't have to be.

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09/01/2026

Does this video recap make you have just a touch 🤏 of FOMO? If it does, don't worry....

We FULLY intend on returning in 2027!!

We had a blast training 28 SLPs and third-year grad students across two campuses in Puerto Rico:

🇵🇷 Albizu University in Mayaguez
🇵🇷 Albizu University in Old San Juan

Now the children and adults of Puerto Rico who rely on tube feeds or a modified diet have an even greater chance of returning to their favorite foods:

🤤Tostones
🤤Pernil
🤤Asopao
🤤Mofongo
🤤Pastelillos

If y'all are reading this and don't know what we're talking about, you'll just have to come to next year's training on the island and try them for yourselves!

Major shoutout to and for organizing these two incredible days.

Where should we go next?

Tell us in the comments!

08/31/2026

Radiologists and SLPs were asked what best practice looks like for an MBS. They disagreed on almost all of it.

In this survey, radiologists were statistically significantly MORE likely to believe that:
🔵 An AP view should NOT be completed
🔵 An esophageal sweep should NOT be completed
🔵 The MBS should end as SOON as the patient aspirates

Yet here SLPs are, just trying to make things "fun" and "exciting" by testing strategies and getting a full picture 😅

We're starting to hear more and more stories of SLPs and radiologists teaming up, though!

Which is GREAT news for a lot of reasons, but there's one reason we love in particular....

Ampcare-certified SLPs can get even MORE objective evidence on the results of the Effective Swallowing Protocol they're using with their patients!

We've received MBS clips of patients - with BOTH AP and lateral views - that show a clear difference in their "before Ampcare" and "after Ampcare" progress, and we. are. HERE. FOR. IT.

Getting a full picture helps you create a plan AND see how your plan is working!

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Reference:
Hermann, L., Donaker, M., Salmon, K., & Mervak, B. (2022). Understanding differences in practices and preferences during videofluoroscopic swallow studies: A survey of radiologists and speech language pathologists in the United States. Clinical Imaging, 83, 144–151.

We know we're poking a bear in the SLP world when it comes to the topic of re-certifications, HOWEVER....Given that this...
08/28/2026

We know we're poking a bear in the SLP world when it comes to the topic of re-certifications, HOWEVER....

Given that this is a SPECIFIC dysphagia therapy protocol requiring our NMES device, electrodes, and unique parameters, hands-on training and certification is prudent.

Why?

Because we need to make sure that every SLP claiming to use Ampcare's ESP has been properly trained and remains updated on the research.

While you can achieve incredible outcomes using Ampcare, you can also cause harm if you don't truly know what you're doing.

ChatGPT, Google, Claude, Siri, Alexa - none of them could actually train you on this protocol.

And nor should your colleagues.

Could you imagine if someone who isn't an SLP just asked your SLP colleague to teach them how to identify which patient populations would benefit from specific dysphagia therapy protocols AND how to provide and bill for those protocols?

Our pearls. Would be. CLUTCHED.

And patients would be harmed.

That's why we LOVE seeing our Ampcare-certified SLPs not only keep up-to-date with their Ampcare certification...but get EXCITED about it, too!

Save this post for future reference.

Also, shoutout to for staying on TOP of her dysphagia game!!

08/27/2026

🙋If you've ever made a recommendation and had the caregiver immediately push back, same.

Maybe you recommend Ampcare and the caregiver says, "We already tried that. It didn't work," when really they tried a DIFFERENT e-stim device, not realizing Ampcare is different.

Or maybe you recommended thin liquids and the caregiver says, "No, he coughs too much; I was told to thicken everything," when really his cough has nothing to do with aspiration, as discovered on an MBS.

At the end of the day...the PATIENT is the decider (if they're cognitively able to).

It's your job to simply educate.

Show them how Ampcare is different!

Have them watch the MBS or FEES images and explain what's REALLY happening.

Map out the risks of each option.

Pause for questions.

Then let the true decider decide.

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08/26/2026

👇The two most common causes of aspiration are....
B) Decreased laryngeal elevation and delayed triggering of the pharyngeal motor response

A study across 5 institutions evaluated 166 dysphagic patients referred for a modified barium swallow.

When researchers looked at what was actually driving that aspiration, two physiologic causes stood out above the rest: decreased laryngeal elevation and delayed triggering of the pharyngeal motor response.

In plain terms: the airway wasn't closing enough, or it wasn't closing fast enough.

Either way, the bolus had a laryngeal opening it shouldn't have had!

This matters because it points treatment in a specific direction.

If delayed initiation and reduced laryngeal elevation are among the most common mechanical causes of aspiration....

👀...then the swallow exercises you choose should directly target the speed and strength of hyolaryngeal movement, not just general "swallow strengthening."

🔥And THAT'S EXACTLY what Ampcare targets, y'all!!

Did you get the pop quiz right? Let us know in the comments.
📚 Lundy, D. S., Smith, C., Colangelo, L., Sullivan, P. A., Logemann, J. A., Lazarus, C. L., Newman, L. A., Murry, T., Lombard, L., & Gaziano, J. (1999). Aspiration: Cause and implications. Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 120(4), 474–478.

08/25/2026

Burnout is much more likely to happen if you feel like your work is making zero impact.

What if we sometimes miss the impact?

We see a single swallow as a marker toward progress...
But your patient might see it as a world-rocking realization that eating cake by their next birthday is a REAL possibility, something they were told would never happen.

What looks like clinical progress to us could actually be a life-altering outlook on the future for your patient.

It's these "little" moments we hear about ALL the time from Ampcare-certified SLPs.

That alone makes this job worth it.

Are you ready to achieve more moments like that?

Comment ESPTraining to get started.

Dysphagia is an independent risk factor for depression in nursing home residents.That's what Savci and colleagues found ...
08/24/2026

Dysphagia is an independent risk factor for depression in nursing home residents.

That's what Savci and colleagues found in their study of 205 nursing home residents, making your impact even more profound as an SLP.

While this was a correlational study (meaning it doesn't prove that dysphagia causes depression), it reinforces something many SLPs see every day:

Swallowing disorders affect far more than nutrition and airway protection.

Meals are social. They're cultural and comforting. For a lot of people, meals are a love language.

This is just another reminder that your work as an SLP has a deeper impact than you may ever realize.

And if you're ready to help even MORE nursing home residents get back to their favorite meals - their love language....

Comment ESPTraining to get started.

Reference:
Savci, C., İlhan, N., & Yıldırım, S. (2025). The relationships between dysphagia risk, frailty, and depression in older adults living in nursing homes. Geriatric Nursing, 62, 116-121.

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