Swallowing movement measuring device and method for measuring a swallowing movement

A method for measuring a swallowing movement, comprising:

• bringing a capacitive sensor into contact with a body skin of an examinee's laryngeal part;
• measuring a change of the capacitive sensor in capacitance, the change being based on a movement of the examinee's larynx when the examinee swallows a food bolus;
• and
• measuring the examinee's swallowing movement on the basis of a result of the measurement;
• wherein the capacitive sensor comprises a sensor body comprising sheet-like dielectric layer;
• a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer,
• the first and the second electrode layers are formed on a top surface and a bottom surface of the dielectric layer respectively, and are at least partially opposed to each other across the dielectric layer,
• the at least partially opposed portions of the first and the second electrode layers constitute a detection portion, and
• the sensor body is reversibly deformable to change areas of the top and bottom surfaces of the dielectric layer.