Does the right or left hemisphere involvement affect the swallowing in patients with hemiplegia?

CONCLUSIONS: This study is the first study to investigate whether water swallowing performance, deep cervical flexor muscle endurance, and maximum phonation time were affected in right handed patients with unilateral strokes that damaged the right or left hemispheres. In the light of the findings of the study, it was thought that swallowing should be evaluated in detail especially in hemiplegic patients with right hemisphere involvement. There is a need for studies examining the results of swallowing rehabilitation on right or left hemisphere in the hemiplegic individuals. PMID: 32538883 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: NeuroRehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Tags: NeuroRehabilitation Source Type: research