ArticleCurrent physical medicine and rehabilitation reports2013
Relative Efficacy of Swallowing versus Non-swallowing Tasks in Dysphagia Rehabilitation: Current Evidence and Future Directions.
Article in Current physical medicine and rehabilitation reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Bilateral cerebellar intermittent theta-burst stimulation combined with laryngeal elevation training promotes neurorestoration in post-stroke dysphagia.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Effect of Localized Muscle Vibration on Oral and Swallowing Pressure in Patients with Dysphagia Following Stroke.Dysphagia · 2026Article
- Impact of Frailty on the Duration and Type of Speech-Language-Hearing Therapy for Patients With COVID-19.Cureus · 2025Article
- Management and Treatment for Dysphagia in Neurodegenerative Disorders.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Dosages of Swallowing Exercises Prescribed in Stroke Rehabilitation: A Medical Record Audit.Dysphagia · 2023Article
- Postoperative dysphagia caused by a delay in mandibular fracture treatment in a patient with severe intellectual disability: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2022Article
- The effects of continuous oromotor activity on speech motor learning: speech biomechanics and neurophysiologic correlates.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Laryngeal Vibration Increases Spontaneous Swallowing Rates in Chronic Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: A Proof-of-Principle Pilot Study.Dysphagia · 2019Article
- Examination of swallowing maneuver training and transfer of practiced behaviors to laryngeal vestibule kinematics in functional swallowing of healthy adults.Physiology & behavior · 2017Article
- Therapeutic intervention in oropharyngeal dysphagia.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2016Review
- Oropharyngeal dysphagia in older persons - from pathophysiology to adequate intervention: a review and summary of an international expert meeting.Clinical interventions in aging · 2016Review
- Improved Dysphagia After Decannulation of Tracheostomy in Patients With Brain Injuries.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2015Article
- The perturbation paradigm modulates error-based learning in a highly automated task: outcomes in swallowing kinematics.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2015Article
- Surface electrical stimulation perturbation context determines the presence of error reduction in swallowing hyolaryngeal kinematics.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Clinical trials published in 2012 and the first six months of 2013 were reviewed. These involved either traditional dysphagia therapy, indirect methods not involving dysphagia therapy or a combination of direct and indirect methods. Of 27 studies, 7 were RCTs, 5 were controlled clinical trials and the remainder were uncontrolled case series. Sixteen studies combined an indirect treatment with traditional dysphagia therapy; only one study examined one technique for direct swallowing therapy. Effect sizes were computed and contrasted for each trial. Traditional dysphagia therapy had small to moderate effect sizes (between 0.3 and 0.6) while spontaneous recovery in acute stroke had effect sizes of 1.2. Placebo effects on patient ratings of degree of improvement on swallowing were estimated as small to moderate. To improve effect sizes, adaptive research designs are needed to develop the optimal methods and dosages of therapy before future clinical trials.
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