Thursday, December 15, 2016

Comparison of Dysphagia Rehabilitation Therapy with Natural Recovery on Swallowing Ability among Acute Stroke Patients

Have your doctor decipher this. Better hope a translation to English exists.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=I242674&phrase=no&rec=242674&article_source=CIRRIE&international=1&international_language=&international_location=
Journal of Rehabilitation Welfare Engineering & Assistive Technology , Volume 8(2) , Pgs. 109-118.

NARIC Accession Number: I242674.  What's this?
Author(s): S. Y. Heo; K. K. Kim.
Publication Year: 2014.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of rehabilitation therapy with natural recovery in patients who have dysphagia due to stroke. Participants were 98 patients with stroke-caused dysphagia who were divided into an experimental and a control group. Swallowing functions were examined based on a video fluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS) for 8 weeks. Each group was evaluated with the Dysphagia Outcome and Severity Scale (DOSS), Dysphagia Severity Score (DSS), and Functional Outcome Swallowing Scale (FOSS) to assess swallowing ability in the first week, and re-evaluated in the 8th week during the session for investigating the recovery status. The author compared the above initial data and follow-up data using a Mann-Whitney U test, Kluskal-Wallis test, and Wilcoxon’s Signed Rank test, performed by IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0 for windows. There was statistically significant recovery in the experimenta1 group except measure of DOSS (p>O.05). The control group showed improvement in all the sca1es (p Descriptor Terms: Dysphagia, Rehabilitation, Stroke, Therapy.
Language: Korean

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