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Effect of Home Based Swallowing Exercise in Stroke Patients With Dysphagia

Not Applicable
Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Dysphagia Following Cerebrovascular Accident
Interventions
Behavioral: home based IOPI swallow training
Registration Number
NCT05758350
Lead Sponsor
Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Brief Summary

Dysphagia is a common problem in post-stroke patients and greatly impaired quality of life. Among them, the strength of tongue and lip muscles played a key role in the oral phase of swallowing and many stroke survivors suffered from these muscles weakness. Iowa oral performance instrument (IOPI) is a standardized portable device that can be used to quantify tongue muscle strength, thus allowing the clinician to set the level of resistance necessary to achieve optimal gains in strength, and also providing visual feedback of performance to the patients to guide training. In this study, we use Videofluoroscopic Swallowing Study (VFSS) to screen for the stroke patient suffering from dysphagia and recruited them into the trial. They then participated in a home based resistance-training program using the tongue depressor, 1 time everyday and each time consisted of 30 repetitions, totally 4 weeks. Various tongue strength variables and subjective scale were obtained before and after the intervention. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of the home based swallowing therapy in the post stroke dysphagia patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
100
Inclusion Criteria
  • Acute stroke within 1 year, videofluoroscopic swallow study revealed abnormalities
  • Mini-Mental Status Examination >20, could cooperate swallow therapy
Exclusion Criteria
  • Already known dysphagia before stroke event
  • Malocclusion or severe facial palsy
  • Localized oral lesion interfering swallowing

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) training grouphome based IOPI swallow trainingIncluding conventional speech therapy (tongue range of motion and strength, oral diet suggestion, masseter muscle strengthening) and home- IOPI based resistance training
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Anterior tongue pressure1 week after treatment
Posterior tongue pressure1 week after treatment
Right buccal pressure1 week after treatment
Left buccal pressure1 week after treatment
Labial pressure1 week after treatment
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The score of Eat-10 scale1 week after treatment
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