Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35111027›Full record

ArticleCase reports in neurology

Treatment of Dysphagia with Biofeedback and Functional Electrical Stimulation in a Patient with Wallenberg Syndrome: A Prospective Case Report.

Daniela Jakobsen, Rainer Seidl, Ingrid Poulsen, Derek John Curtis

Abstract readCase Reports
In one paragraph

Article in Case reports in neurology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
  3. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Daniela JakobsenRUBRIC (Research Unit on Brain Injury Rehabilitation Copenhagen), Department of Brain Injury, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Rainer SeidlDepartment of Otolaryngology at UKB, Hospital of the University of Berlin, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany.
Ingrid PoulsenRUBRIC (Research Unit on Brain Injury Rehabilitation Copenhagen), Department of Brain Injury, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Derek John CurtisRUBRIC (Research Unit on Brain Injury Rehabilitation Copenhagen), Department of Brain Injury, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biofeedback games and automated functional electrical stimulation (FES) can be used in the treatment of dysphagia. This case study aims to evaluate the effect of the treatment on a 77-year-old man with chronic Wallenberg syndrome and his and the therapist's experiences when using this therapy form. The participant received intensive treatment for nine days with Facial Oral Tract Therapy, biofeedback games and FES. The Penetration Aspiration Scale was scored using Functional Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing at baseline and the end of the intervention period. Swallowing-specific parameters were measured daily, and interviews were conducted with the patient and therapist during the intervention period. The patient and therapist both expressed a positive attitude to the ease of use and usefulness of this technology, despite there being no measurable change in the participant's swallowing and eating function and only small improvements in swallowing parameters. The experience from this study was that biofeedback games and FES gave only small improvements in swallowing for this participant but were motivating and easy to use. Further research is needed to investigate the effect of this therapy on other participants with a more robust research design.

Indexed as

BiofeedbackDysphagiaFunctional electrical stimulationLateral medullary syndromeWallenberg syndrome

Identifiers

PMID35111027
PMCPMC8787522

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.