EXPIRATORY MUSCLE TRAINING VERSUS FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION ON PULMONARYAND SWALLOWING FUNCTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH STROKE

Phase 1

• Conditions: Nervous System Diseases

• Registration Number: PACTR202205908494752
• Lead Sponsor: Mohamed Zidan

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2022-05-11
• Last Update Posted: 29 May 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Pending
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

The subject selection will be according to the following criteria:
1-All Patients of this study will be diagnosed as acute stroke with dysphagia and the diagnosis will be confirmed by computed tomography or MRI (El-Tamawy et al., 2021).
2-Age of patients will be ranged from 55 to 65years (males and females).
3-All patients will be hemodynamically stable.
4-All patients will be diagnosed as ischemic stroke
5-Patients with good cognition that enables them to understand the requirements of the study.
6-Patients with following features: (Abiodun A and Dolapo u , 2021)
?FVC : 60-69% (moderate)
?FEV1 : 60-69% (moderate)
?FEV1/FVC : 50-59% (moderate)
?PEF : 50-80% (yellow zone)
?GUSS : 0-14 (moderate to severe dysphagia with aspiration risk).
?Abnormal arterial blood gases values.

Exclusion Criteria

The potential participants will be excluded if they meet one of the following criteria:
1.Patients who cannot follow instructions as sensory aphasia, blindness, dementia, and deafness.
2.Patients with any orthopedic, neurological, or chest disorders that affect trunk muscles control or cause respiratory disorders as COPD.
3.Patients with cognitive and psychiatric disorders.
4.Patients with unstable cardiovascular conditions.
5.Patients with contraindications to abdominal functional electrical stimulation as:
•Cardiac pace maker.
•Acute abdominal surgery.
•Acute neck surgery
•Patients with tracheostomy
•Any skin diseases.
6.Patients with severe head injury.
7.Patients with Glasgow coma scale below 11.
8.Patients with paralysis of facial muscles.
9.Patients with uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Respiratory function assessment using hand held lung function spirometry

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Arterial blood gases analyzer