The Cough That Won't Stop: Understanding Chronic Refractory Cough

Episode details: Many SLPs think of cough as an airway protection mechanism, something patients either have too little of or manage fine. Dr. Miranda Wright, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Florida's Breathe Center, works with the opposite problem: hypertussia, or heightened cough sensitivity. What happens when a cough won't go away, even after every test comes back normal? In this episode, she breaks down the peripheral and central mechanisms driving chronic refractory cough, walk...