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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 portfolio. 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.

12/30/2025

You’ve gotta hear this…

😣When Ampcare-certified SLP Nicole Williams came to us, she found herself stuck in a tricky case.

Her 71-year-old patient, Bob, had ankylosing spondylitis and had been relying on tube feeds for his nutrition for the past 3 years.

🥼Doctors were convinced his condition would never improve and eating/drinking (including his fave Dr. Pepper) was no longer an option.

Nicole had been VitamStim certified for 18 years, but she wasn’t convinced this would help him.

It wasn’t until she shared this case with Vince Clark, our Clinical Marketing Specialist, that she thought to consider Ampcare.

👏Vince convinced her to give it a shot, and she spent the following weekend taking the on-demand training.

After providing Ampcare’s Effective Swallowing Protocol 2 times a week for 5 months and completing a follow-up FEES, Nicole finally got to deliver the good news…

📣Regular diet, thin liquids, and NO more PEG tube!📣

Nicole is still working with Bob once a week for maintenance.
➡️ Swipe right to see her recently completed 4th FEES follow-up!

Today, Bob savors home-cooked meals and restaurant outings with his wife. His favorite indulgence?

🥤A cold Dr Pepper, enjoyed whenever he pleases.

This can be YOU and your patients!

Comment "ESPTraining" and we will send you some more info!

12/29/2025

👂Can people with cochlear implant devices use Ampcare's Effective Swallowing Protocol (ESP)?

✔️Our answer is...YES!

But we do have a few recommendations if you are using ESP and the patient reports any interference...

1️⃣Turn the device off
or
2️⃣Remove the battery or processor

Here's to getting REAL results & greater gains in less time with Ampcare's ESP!

If you're TIRED of guessing what you should do to help your patients see the results they deserve, then join the thousands of SLPs who are leveling up their dysphasia therapy skills with Ampare!

❤️Visit us and learn more at SwallowTherapy.com

12/26/2025

Ampcare’s Effective Swallowing Protocol (ESP™) is a therapeutic intervention FDA-cleared for the treatment of dysphagia. This system is a specialized form of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) administered through uniquely designed external skin electrodes.

The Ampcare unit is a portable, non-invasive electrotherapy system that emits an electrical current to stimulate nerves that correspond to inactive or atrophied swallowing muscles. This leads to an improved quality of muscle contraction of the hyolaryngeal complex and improved swallow function.

Stimulation with ESP’s submental placement and specially designed electrodes facilitate the range of motion of the hyolaryngeal complex similar to that of the Mendelsohn Maneuver, while engaging a resistive effect to laryngeal vestibule closure.

This resistance is created by stretching or opening the laryngeal vestibule. When the patient swallows during the stimulation "on" time, this movement creates the most effective, effortful swallowing exercise you can provide.

There is also a facial placement that can address oral deficits that include chewing, oral pocketing, and anterior loss of bolus.

ESP utilizes the safest swallowing strategies and offers a postural device to provide the ideal head and neck position. This allows for the most efficient muscle contraction needed to promote a functional swallow.

Ready to learn more? Head to SwallowTherapy.com or drop your questions here!👇

12/25/2025

This time of year, we’re reminded that the real magic is in the simple moments: sharing a meal, laughing around the table, and being together🎄

We know that for so many of you, helping patients reclaim those moments is more of a calling than it is a job. And trust us, your patients and their loved ones can sense it!

Thank you for your dedication, your compassion, and your relentless pursuit of better outcomes for every person who walks through your door.

May your holidays be filled with joy, rest, and the kind of hope you give to others all year long.

Merry Christmas!🎅

With gratitude,
-Rick, Ronda, Russ, and the entire Ampcare family❤️

12/24/2025

Ever wondered if your patient is *actually* completing an effortful swallow or just humoring you for the 30 minutes you're seeing them?

With Ampcare ESP, you don't have a choice. The stimulation creates resistance that requires an effortful swallow to overcome it.

👀Take a look for yourself!

😵You can see the laryngeal vestibule stretch open when the stimulation is on. Ideally, the patient will swallow against the force created by the stimulation, stretching the laryngeal vestibule open. This creates a resistive exercise and the phenomenon of perturbation. More on this in our upcoming video with Rick and Russ..

⛔️You can see how you wouldn't want to give a bolus while stimulation is on, but how it demands an incredibly effortful swallow from the patient!

👀You can also actually SEE how Ampcare ESP gives patients better, faster results than traditional dysphagia therapy.

🔗To get your hands on Ampcare ESP, comment "ESPTraining" to register for one of our in-person or hybrid in-person courses!

12/23/2025

❌ANSWER: FALSE

Each protocol requires its specific certification.

Here's why:
🔹Sensorimotor and Sensory stimulation have different parameters. Ampcare uses a higher intensity (0-100 mA) with a shorter phase duration (50 microseconds) and duty cycle on time for 5 seconds to elicit a comfortable, sustained sensorimotor contraction.
Sensory stimulation approaches use a lower intensity (0-25 mA) with a longer phase duration (350/300 microseconds) and duty cycle on time for 59 seconds that cannot sustain a motor contraction.

🔹Unique electrode shape and placements: Ampcare's pie-shaped electrode matches the curvature of the jaw line to efficiently recruit more nerves and muscle fibers.
Sensory stimulation approaches use a traditional but smaller round electrode, which doesn't disperse current as well.

🔹Specific exercises: Ampcare creates a more effective effortful swallowing exercise by stretching open and perturbating the airway to recruit more muscle fibers. Sensory approaches typically have longer stimulation on times; therefore, only stimulating sensory nerves and not the motor nerves, which benefit exercise.

🔹Distinct evidence base: Ampcare's research supports moving the hyolaryngeal complex and perturbating the airway, stimulating afferent and efferent pathways.

Sensory stimulation approaches can only stimulate the afferent pathways.

So, to provide safe, effective, evidence-based dysphagia therapy check out the Ampcare difference.

👇Comment ESPDifference to receive our NMES differentiator!

12/22/2025

Once again, we're BEYOND proud of (and not surprised by) Ampcare-certified SLPs and their dysphagia outcomes!

We pulled together this year’s audit findings from Ampcare-certified clinicians, and the numbers tell a story worth celebrating!

This is the kind of progress that happens when clinicians stay curious, stay consistent, and keep pushing for better outcomes even when the path there is messy.
Thanks for another year of steady, thoughtful work.

🥂 Here’s to more progress, more evidence, and more wins for your patients in 2026.

If you're NOT Ampcare-certified, are you ready to join us for next year's wrapped?

Comment ESPtraining below and check out our certification options!

12/19/2025

🎉When used as part of the Ampcare Effective Swallow Protocol, the Restorative Posture Device:
• Establishes the ideal head and neck position
• Can be customized to fit the patient
• Builds strength through a resistive exercise program
• Maintains placement of electrodes
• Gives a comfortable, contoured fit
• Allows for optimal laryngeal and pharyngeal movement

👏Pairing the Restorative Posture Device and exercise protocol, ESP utilizes postural strategies to improve swallow function and double the activation of the hyolaryngeal muscles. The Restorative Posture Device is a patient-specific recommended option.

🔗You can read more about the Restorative Posture Device in the article below or on SwallowTherapy.com

📖Watts, C. R. (2013). Measurement of Hyolaryngeal Muscle Activation Using Surface Electromyography for Comparison
of Two Rehabilitation Dysphagia Exercises. Arch of Phys. Med. and Rehab, 94:2542-48.

💡Make sure you check out our upcoming in-person courses while you're on the site so you can try the Restorative Posture Device for yourself!

12/18/2025

One Sunday morning, Jill woke up and realized that the right side of her mouth felt different when trying to put her lipstick on.

By the time she had lunch, she was unable to drink from a straw, and the entire side of her face felt numb.

Jill Watson is an SLP. She’s all too familiar with what unilateral facial weakness and numbness could mean…

So she drove herself to the ER and got worked up for a stroke.

Thankfully, no stroke! But it turned out she had Bell’s Palsy.

Unable to fully close her right eye, smile, or feel any sensation on that side of her face, Jill immediately started a 21-day course of steroids and antivirals.

“It definitely scared me,” she told us.

The virus and inflammation had cleared up by the end of the 21 days, but she still hadn’t regained full function of that side of her face.

So, in classic med SLP form, Jill turned to the evidence.

“I had just completed the in-person certification for Ampcare ESP, and I immediately thought I must try the facial protocol.”

She went to work early every morning and spent the first 30 minutes with ESP facial placement on the right side of her face in conjunction with oral/facial exercises. She did this five days a week for eight weeks.

The outcome? Well, let’s just say she has a LOT to smile about now!

“I relate the entire movement restoration [of the right side of my face] to the ESP treatment…the initial pharmacological treatment helped treat the infection and reduce the inflammation of cranial nerve VII, but the regaining and restoration of strength, expression, and mobility was all ESP in my experience.”

While Ampcare ESP is known for improving swallow function, there’s certainly a place for facial sensation and mobility in our protocol, and it’s just as important!

Thank you, Jill, for sharing this exciting win with us! We love hearing stories from our community.

12/17/2025

Here's to the SLPs who don't get holiday vacations.

No two-week breaks or long weekends off.

Heck, you might even be required to work some weekends - holiday or not!

It's easy to forget that most of the world shuts down to be with loved ones on certain days of the year.

Because healthcare needs don't follow a calendar.

Instead of spending the morning in your pajamas and opening gifts, you're in scrubs and have *become* the gift.

🎁You've become the gift to your patients who don't know when they'll get their meal.

🎁The gift to the nurses who want to provide medication.

🎁The gift to the doctors who want to map out a plan.

You may not be a wizard or carry a magic wand, but you've become someone's hero on a day they'd rather be at home.

So, here's to you, dear SLP.

Your job isn't perfect and the demands aren't always fair.

But your impact is the kind of gift that no one else can buy.

Cheers 🥂

12/16/2025

Looking to get your patients the fastest, greatest improvements in their swallow function?

😊Ampcare will put a big smile on your face, knowing that you are giving your patients the absolute BEST dysphagia therapy option. You'll have more fulfillment & satisfaction in your career than ever before! ❤️

You'll also be giving your patients the gift of...
⭐️ Enjoying their favorite food or beverage
⭐️ Rejoining their family at the dinner table
⭐️ Participating in the many social activities that involve eating & drinking

Everybody wins with Ampcare!

What are you waiting for? Comment ESPTraining to become the go-to SLP for dysphagia therapy!

12/15/2025

🤩 We are so thankful for all those certified users who continue to recommend us to their colleagues!

We absolutely love reading all of your amazing reviews!

📑 We have seen everything from patient progress with Ampcare to rave reviews on our training and ease of application.

⭐️ If you have a review that you've been dying to share, drop it in the comments below!

Not Ampcare certified... YET?!
📲Comment ESPTraining to see all of our training options now!

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