Trial reportNeurogastroenterology and motility2018
Swallow strength training exercise for elderly: A health maintenance need.
Trial report in Neurogastroenterology and motility, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
- Effect of progressive chin tuck against resistance exercise on community-dwelling older adults with age-related dysphagia: a randomized controlled trial.European geriatric medicine · 2025Trial
- Effects of Aging on Correlation of Striated Esophageal and Pharyngeal Deglutitive Motor Function.Gastroenterology research and practice · 2026Article
- Exploring maintenance rehabilitation in adults with chronic conditions: a scoping review of the literature.Disability and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Current Landscape and Prospect of Oral Frailty Intervention Strategies in Older Adults: A Scoping Review.Clinical interventions in aging · 2025Article
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- Association between Tongue Pressure and Jaw-Opening Force in Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Chin tuck against resistance exercise with feedback to improve swallowing, eating and drinking in frail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
- Review
- Differences in fatigability of muscles involved in fecal continence: Potential clinical ramifications.Physiological reports · 2021Article
- Effects of a Multifaceted Intervention Program on the Eating Ability of Nursing Home Residents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Fatigability of the external anal sphincter muscles using a novel strength training resistance exercise device.American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology · 2021Article
- Anatomy of inferior end of palatopharyngeus: its contribution to upper esophageal sphincter opening.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2021Article
- Dose in Exercise-Based Dysphagia Therapies: A Scoping Review.Dysphagia · 2021Article
- Effect of Dysphagia Rehabilitation Using Kinesiology Taping on Oropharyngeal Muscle Hypertrophy in Post-Stroke Patients: A Double Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Effects of Tongue-Strengthening Exercise on the Geniohyoid Muscle in Young Healthy Adults.Dysphagia · 2020Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundRecent studies have shown high prevalence of oropharyngeal dysphagia associated with frailty- and age-related muscle weakness. Strength training exercises have been advocated for locomotive health maintenance in the elderly and have shown positive outcomes. As muscles involved in oropharyngeal phase of swallowing are also comprised of striated muscles, the aim of this study was to determine biomechanical effect of a novel resistance exercise program, Swallowing Against Laryngeal Restriction (SALR), on pharyngeal phase swallowing in the healthy elderly.
methodsA total of 28 volunteers (75 + 7 years; 17 females) with no complaint of dysphagia were studied using video fluoroscopy before and after 6 weeks of the swallow strength training exercise. Eighteen of these volunteers also underwent high-resolution pharyngeal manometry non-concurrent with fluoroscopy. Ten additional volunteers (81 + 6 years; 9 females) were studied by videofluoroscopy before and after 6 weeks of a sham exercise. KEY
resultsSwallow resistance exercise but not the sham exercise resulted in a significant increase in maximum upper esophageal sphincter opening (P < .01), superior and anterior laryngeal excursion (P < .01) as well as posterior pharyngeal wall thickness (P < .01). Resistance exercise but not sham exercise also resulted in a significant increase in deglutitive pharyngeal contractile integral (P < .01). CONCLUSIONS & INFERENCES: Strength training of muscles involved in the pharyngeal phase of swallowing using the swallowing against laryngeal restriction technique is feasible and significantly improves key physiologic features of the pharyngeal phase of swallowing. These findings provide the basis for consideration of developing an exercise-based swallow health maintenance program for the elderly swallow health maintenance program for the elderly.
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