Electrical stimulation of hyoid muscles in post-stroke dysphagia.

CONCLUSION: Electrical stimulation of suprahyoid muscles significantly reduced the duration of the oral and pharyngeal phases: in the post-stroke patients with dysphagia used in this study. The result is improved swallowing. This is a recently recommended approach and your study confirms its efficacy. PMID: 29097820 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29097820?dopt=Abstract

Source: Biomedical Papers of the Medical Faculty of the Univ Palacky Olomouc Czech Repub - November 5, 2017 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: Biomed Pap Med Fac Univ Palacky Olomouc Czech Repub Source Type: research