Lingual Endurance Exercise in Treating Post-Stroke Dysphagia

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

19

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

August 2, 2022

Primary Completion Date

November 28, 2023

Study Completion Date

November 28, 2023

Conditions
Dysphagia, Oral PhaseStroke, Ischemic
Interventions
OTHER

Lingual Endurance Training

Participants will participate in 3 training sessions per day for 8 weeks. Some participants will complete 3 sessions of lingual endurance exercise. For example, if the participant completed 100 repetitions during the baseline measurement, they would complete 75 repetitions during their exercise session. Other participants will complete effortful swallows during their 3rd training session. These participants will complete 30 swallows where they are instructed to press their tongue hard on the bulb and swallow their saliva.

Trial Locations (1)

45220

Medical Sciences Building, Cincinnati

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NIH

lead

University of Cincinnati

OTHER