ArticleExperimental brain research2018
Supportive effect of interferential current stimulation on susceptibility of swallowing in guinea pigs.
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- Interferential current stimulation during dental facial treatment improves masticatory function.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Efficient Suprahyoid Muscle Contraction by Combined Modulated Currents in Mice.The Laryngoscope · 2026Article
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- Long-term rehabilitation with interferential current stimulation for persistent dysphagia in anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor encephalitis: A case report.Clinical case reports · 2024Article
- Treatment of Post-stroke Dysphagia With Interferential Current: Three Case Reports and a Review of the Literature.Cureus · 2024Article
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- Effects of interferential current electrical stimulation (IFCS) on mastication and swallowing function in healthy young adults: A preliminary study.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2023Article
- Detailed findings of videofluoroscopic examination among patients with Parkinson's disease on the effect of cervical percutaneous interferential current stimulation.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Interferential Current Stimulation for Swallowing Disorders in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Preliminary Study.Progress in rehabilitation medicine · 2022Article
- Cervical Interferential Current Transcutaneous Electrical Sensory Stimulation for Patients with Dysphagia and Dementia in Nursing Homes.Clinical interventions in aging · 2020Article
- Safety of transcutaneous electrical sensory stimulation of the neck in terms of vital parameters in dysphagia rehabilitation.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Sensory-motor control of the pharyngeal swallow requires sensory afferent inputs from the pharynx and larynx evoked by introducing bolus into the pharynx. Patients with reduced sensitivity of the pharynx and larynx are likely to have a swallowing impairment, such as pre-swallow aspiration due to delayed swallow triggering. Interferential current stimulation applied to the neck is thought to improve the swallowing function of dysphagic patients, although the mechanism underlying the facilitatory effect of such stimulation remains unknown. In the present study, we examined the changes in the elicitability of swallowing due to the stimulation and the responses of the swallowing-related neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius and in the area adjacent to the stimulation in decerebrate and paralyzed guinea pigs. The swallowing delay time was shortened by the stimulation, whereas the facilitatory effect of eliciting swallowing was attenuated by kainic acid injection into the nucleus tractus solitarius. Approximately half of the swallowing-related neurons responded to the stimulation. These data suggest that the interferential current stimulation applied to the neck could enhance the sensory afferent pathway of the pharynx and larynx, subserving excitatory inputs to the neurons of the swallowing pattern generator, thereby facilitating the swallowing reflex.
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