Respiratory-Swallow Coordination Training Improves Swallowing Safety and Efficiency in a Person With Anoxic Brain Injury.

Conclusions Clinically meaningful improvements in RSC were observed following four sessions of RSCT, which were subsequently associated with large improvements in swallowing safety and efficiency. RSCT may be an efficacious, clinically feasible skill-based exercise for people with anoxic brain injury, suboptimal RSC, and dysphagia. Future work is needed to expand these findings in a larger cohort of people with dysphagia.
PMID: 32755487 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - August 4, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Curtis JA, Seikaly ZN, Troche MS Tags: Am J Speech Lang Pathol Source Type: research