Mrs. Sarah Mccall Fortney M.S. CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
912 S GAY ST KNOXVILLE TN, 37902About
Dr. Sarah Fortney is a speech language pathologist practicing in KNOXVILLE, TN. Dr. Fortney specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Fortney evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Fortney helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Simulation of the fluid retention effects of a vasopressin analog using the Guyton model of circulation.
- The effect of dDAVP with saline loading on fluid balance during LBNP and standing after 24-hr head-down bedrest.
- The effect of blood volume loss on cardiovascular response to lower body negative pressure using a mathematical model.
- Human cardiovascular response to sympathomimetic agents during head-down bed rest: the effect of dietary sodium.
- Development of lower body negative pressure as a countermeasure for orthostatic intolerance.
- Sweating and skin blood flow during exercise: effects of age and maximal oxygen uptake.
- Repeatability and protocol comparability of presyncopal symptom limited lower body negative pressure exposures.
- Responses to dehydration and rehydration during heat exposure in young and older men.
- Automated blood pressure measurements during exercise.
- Ten weeks of aerobic training do not affect lower body negative pressure responses.
- Adaptation to repeated presyncopal lower body negative pressure exposures.
- Effect of prolonged bed rest on lung volume in normal individuals.
- Exercise, performance and temperature control: temperature regulation during exercise and implications for sports performance and training.
- Effect of training and heat acclimation on exercise responses of sedentary females.
- Effect of training and heat acclimation on exercise responses of sedentary females.
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