Sitting, standing, or lying supine
Anterior to the patient.
Please sit down. May I touch the front of your neck? (or point to the area).
Ask the patient to gently tuck his/her chin. Very gently place your finger tips on the superior surface of the hyoid bone. This feels like resting your fingers on a shelf. Ask the patient to swallow. Let your fingers move up and then down during the swallow.
VH - Skeleton of the trunk, neck and head, hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage anterior view - on one side add the suprahyoids, infrahyoids, sternohyoid, sternothyroid, thyrohyoid, omohyyoid, longus colli and capitis, scalenes, sternocleidomastoid, muscles and tendons